Employment - Field Court Chambers

Field Court offers specialist advice and representation to employees and employers in all areas of employment law. Our Employment Group’s competitive advantage lies in its cost-effective, highly skilled team of talented practitioners who give excellent commercial advice at all levels of call. Barristers are sought-after for their client-friendly, flexible, competitive and practical approach to all manner of employment disputes.

Our notable successes cover a broad range of employment law and related cases that include:

Bonus disputes
Benefits (such as health insurance and phantom share schemes)
Compromise agreements
Contract claims
Directors’ duties and disputes
Disciplinary procedures
Discrimination claims (including age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation)
Dismissal
- Unfair
- Wrongful
Drafting service agreements
Employment agencies
Employment status
Equality and equal pay
European Law
Human Rights Law
Injunctions (inc restrictive covenants, issues of confidentiality)
Parental rights
Pensions
Quasi employment relationships such as those under the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993.
References
Redundancies
Restrictive covenants
Trade Union Law
TUPE
Vicarious Liability (employer)
Whistleblowing
Working Time Regulation

Many team members are qualified Direct Public Access barristers.

The Employment Group also includes outstanding accredited mediators with experience in conducting mediations across a wide range of disputes.

Our CPD-accredited training courses, workshops and seminar programmes are highly regarded and well attended. Barristers in the Employment Group can deliver bespoke in-house training to law firms and professional bodies at their premises.

Notable cases