Selwyn Bloch KC
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 2 : Employment
Band 2
About
Provided by Selwyn Bloch KC
Practice Areas
Selwyn Bloch KC is a leading employment/commercial law Silk, specialising in business protection (in fields of employment, commercial and partnership law) as leading counsel, arbitrator, mediator or draftsman.
He has acted in numerous leading cases at all levels of the court system, typically involving (inter alia) restrictive covenants, confidential information, fiduciary duties, economic torts and conflict of laws.
Most recently Selwyn has been acting as leading counsel in an LLP arbitration within a major law firm and successfully enforced at trial a non-competition covenant against a senior solicitor. He has acted as sole arbitrator in a LLP restrictive covenant dispute within a Big 4 accountancy firm and acted as counsel in claims relating to employee benefit schemes subject to foreign law, team moves/confidential information cases, cases regarding enforceability of anti-team moves covenants and enforceability of "claw back" provisions.
Selwyn advises on drafting of covenants and other business-protective provisions in all kinds of agreements.
He has substantial experience in employment tribunal disputes. He has been a part time Employment Judge since 2000.
Career
Silk 2000. Called 1982; joined Littleton Chambers 1982; joint Head of Chambers 2015-2018.
Professional Memberships
ELBA, ELA , APP and COMBAR.
Publications
Co-author of leading textbook Bloch & Brearley: 'Employment Covenants and Confidential Information' (4th edition 2018).
Personal
Interests include music, walking, swimming, theatre, literature and sport.