I have advised employers and individuals in both contentious and non-contentious matters since 1974. I now advised on all contentious matters as a Consultant with Laytons LLP..
My clients have included sales and marketing staff, senior Executives and Managing Directors, Board Directors, Hedge Fund Managers, Bankers, Traders and City Executives as well as PAs and secretaries, lawyers, doctors and dentists and other professionals.
I have acted for small and medium sized employers, major financial institutions, unionised and non-unionised employers and Charities as well as travel and insurance companies.
I have also advised several high profile Medical Insurers providing professional indemnity insurance.
In the past, I have acted in high profile discrimination cases for individuals including:-
- Jim Curry against Goldman Sachs ($10 million settlement);
- Ann Iveson v BNP Paribas (settled for an undisclosed sum);
- Former Director of Morgan Stanley
- Former Banker with Merrill Lynch/Bank of America;
- Elizabeth Weston v Merrill Lynch (settled for an undisclosed sum);
- Former Directors and staff of De Beers, Tiffany, Arcadia and Marks & Spencer and Staff from other retail organisations;
- A former UK Managing Director (female) of a major multi-national Company based in the US
- Brian Ashton, former England Rugby Coach, against the RFU.
- A senior female Executive of a multi-national - winning over £120,000 and the largest aggravated damages award for an individual and costs, damages for personal injuries and damages for victimisation
- Catherine Cawthorne v Freshfields in a “first” personal injuries claim when working abroad.
Counsel instructed by me have won substantial damages in several high profile defamation cases.
A client recently won substantial damages and an apology for a director of a major Professional Firm who has been slandered by another director.
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