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Clive Dobbin
UK Guide 2024
Band 1 : Employment
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About
Provided by Clive Dobbin
Practice Areas
My main areas of expertise are in:
- discrimination issues;
- settlement agreements, including settlement agreements for senior executives often involving shareholder and restrictive covenant issues;
- employment tribunal claims, including complex discrimination claims;
- the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006; and
- restrictive covenant and confidentiality issues.
I work closely with my clients, getting to know their businesses, so that I can provide commercially orientated practical advice, taking account of the particular needs and circumstances of each client. I am an excellent strategist, ensuring that from the beginning of a matter or case I have agreed a clear way forward with my client.
I am responsive to the needs of my clients, ensuring a prompt response to queries. I am also flexible in my approach, including in relation to fees.
I have a particular expertise in the education sector. In this regard, I am vice chair of governors at Totton College, where I also chair the HR Committee, and am a member of the Audit Committee, Policy and Performance Committee and the Remuneration Committee.
Work highlights/reported Decisions:
Represented clients in respect of a number of substantial tribunal cases, including discrimination cases (including cases resulting in a 12 day, and a 20 day, tribunal hearing)
and TUPE cases (including one resulting in a 9 day case on whether TUPE applied).
Represented clients in numerous cases before the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.
Notable cases include:
Esso Petroleum Limited v Jarvis, EAT, 2002 – employment status of agency workers
Vaughan v London Borough of Lewisham, EAT, 2013 – costs awards
Professional Memberships
I am a member of the management committee of the Employment Lawyers Association. I am also the Employment Lawyers Association’s representative on the Law Society Council.
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