A view from the Bar

Philip Ingram MBE talks to Sinead King, a leading employment barrister with 36 Commercial about health and safety at a time of COVID-19 and coming out of lockdown. Advice for employers and employees and things to avoid! As ever we finish on Sinead's latest Netflix recommendation. 

If you need to contact Sinead for further advice she can be contacted through her clerks at 36 Commercial.

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +44 (0)20 7421 8051

Web: https://36group.co.uk/commercial

Philip Ingram MBE chats with Richard O'Dair, Head of 36 Employment (the 36 Group’s employment law team). He specialises in employment law and Human Rights, representing both employers and employees.  And today we chat about coming out of furlough.

Richard has appeared in a number of important cases including the case of Seldon v CJW in in the Supreme Court [2012] and more recently cases about freedom of religion in the workplace and a case about a whistle-blower in an NHS Trust where the damages claimed were over £1 million.

Richard’s particular strength is his ability and willingness to immerse himself from an early stage in long drawn out litigation giving important advice on matters of evidence and tactics. He is particularly skilled skill in drafting correspondence and pleadings and in advising on witness statements. He relates well clients (both Respondent and Claimant) and to witnesses from differing backgrounds.

Notwithstanding the value he brings outside the Courtroom, Richard remains a skilled Court room lawyer One judge saw the need to direct himself not to accept too easily the arguments of such a persuasive advocate. Mr Justice Langstaff spoke of “advocacy of the highest quality” when Richard appeared in front of him in the EAT in the case of Swansea University v Williams. He has given seminars on advocacy for lawyers in Rwanda and Uganda

As an employment lawyer, Richard has appeared in the Employment Tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. He has been involved in making an application to the ECHR. His particular interests are discrimination law, whistleblowing and the influence of human rights on the law of unfair dismissal.

Richard can be contacted via:

Telephone: 020 7421 8051 (Commercial)

Email: [email protected]

Today, Philip Ingram MBE discusses Furlough Fraud with Frances Murray a solicitor at Rosenblatt, Fergus McCombie and Lee Schama, barristers at 36 Commercial.

Frances Murray – Solicitor at Rosenblatt
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T: +44 (0)20 7955 0880

Frances specialises in  white collar financial and serious crime. She represents individuals, sole traders, limited companies and PLCs from the investigatory stage to proceedings. Over the years this has included , high net worth individuals, chief executive officers of multi million pound, multinational city based companies, professionals in law, medicine, journalism and accountancy. Frances has defended investigations / prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, HM Revenue and Customs, National Crime Agency, Architects Registration Board and the Crown Prosecution Service, as well as those prosecutions brought privately.

Fergus McCombie – Barrister at 36 Commercial
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T: +44 (0)20 7421 8051

Fergus is a specialist Employment Law and Commercial barrister. Fergus advises and represents claimants and respondents at all levels in the whole range of tribunal work, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, equal pay, whistleblowing, TUPE, contractual issues and holidays. As well as firms of solicitors and local authorities, he regularly acts for in-house legal departments of well-known and multinational companies. Recent and ongoing cases include acting for a Premier League football manager in his contractual and unfair dismissal complaint against his former club; for the Easy group of companies defending the dismissal of senior executives; for a claimant in relation to the statutory authorisation regime for glider inspectors.

He is frequently instructed in related commercial and civil areas of work such as partnership and director disputes, restrictive covenants and employee competition.

Lee Schama – Barrister 36 Commercial
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T: +44 (0)20 7421 8051

Lee specialises in complex and high value disputes and his practice extends across a broad range of commercial law, both in advice and advocacy. His work is principally focussed on: international and multi-jurisdictional banking disputes, corporate and personal insolvency, money laundering and asset tracing commercial and white collar  and financial crime and disputes involving breach of contract, breach of trust and negligence

Philip Ingram MBE is chatting with Flavia Kenyon a Barrister with 36 Commercial about the Integrity of Content: Fighting Disinformation, Deepfakes, and a Deadly Virus.

Flavia was born in Romania, educated at Oxford University and called to the bar in 2005. Flavia specialises in International litigation, Commercial and Insolvency, Commercial Crime, Fraud, Regulatory, Cyber litigation, Cyber Fraud, Espionage, and Human Rights.

Flavia is the first British barrister fluent in Romanian. She provides general legal assistance to the Romanian Embassy and has become the 'go-to' lawyer amongst the Romanian diaspora. She is a media commentator on legal issues involving Romanians, and has appeared on national and international media.

Read Flania's paper here: https://36group.co.uk/content/files/36-cyber-bites-07-04.pdf

John is chatting with Philip Ingram MBE from Grey Hare Media about Privacy Law and Data.

John is a highly regarded silk in South Africa, specialising in large commercial trials, competition proceedings, Judicial Review and actions and injunctions for defamation and privacy.

He has extensive experience in these fields and has also written for academic journals – both in South Africa and internationally – in most of them.

In the last few years, he has acted for a large European bank in Competition Tribunal proceedings arising from the alleged fixing of currency exchange rates of emerging markets in New York; for an international commodities trading company in lifting a freezing order over a consignment of cobalt from the DRC; for South African Breweries in an arbitration dispute under Uncitral rules arising from a contract for the delivery of its product which necessitated a close knowledge of the logistics business; and in a Judicial Review arising from the award of a tender worth approximately half a billion rands per year.

His breadth of experience equips him to act across wide ranging commercial fields from banking and contract law to civil fraud, judicial review and negligence, and in commercial injunctions.

John has appeared in courts at all levels both in South Africa and the United Kingdom, including the South African Constitutional Court and the United Kingdom Supreme Court, as well as in arbitrations.

To contact John please go via his clarks on:

Telephone: 020 7421 8051
Email: [email protected]

Philip Ingram MBE talks to Sinead King, a leading employment barrister with 36 Commercial. COVID-19 is forcing a lot of businesses to shut down sites and change the way they do business.  There is a lot of confusion about how the furlough scheme intersects with the law governing business reorganisation and redundancy. This is a PODCAST which aims to clear up the confusion.  We talk about Reorganisation, redundancy and the job retention scheme: the business perspective in the current COVID-19 environment.

And we end with a NETFLIX recommendation for good violent escapism!

If you need to contact Sinead for further advice she can be contacted through her clerks at 36 Commercial.

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +44 (0)20 7421 8051

Web: https://36group.co.uk/commercial