Kevin McCavish
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Employment: Employer
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About
Provided by Kevin McCavish
Practice Areas
Kevin is the head of Shoosmiths' London and Thames Valley Employment Team and has over 20 years of experience in providing legal support to HR teams.
Kevin has extensive UK and international experience and regularly advises clients on HR issues arising from complex organisational and structural changes.
Kevin trained and qualified as a barrister and spent three years at the Bar. He has considerable contentious employment law experience, including appearances at the Employment Appeal Tribunal and higher courts.
Examples of his recent work include:-
acting in the well-publicised case of Elaine Day against HRH The Prince of Wales;
defending the highest value (£1.5 million) gender reassignment case brought by Jessica Bussart;
advising a BBC production company on its relocation to Media City, Salford;
the highly publicised dispute between Mr Rollerson and Fujitsu Limited concerning alleged comments made about the implementation of the Government’s National Heath Service Database;
representing a major political party on positive discrimination in favour of female political candidates;
advising an asset management company on restraint of trade implications following a recent recruitment;
advising an employee of the BBC in relation to the employee's level of pay;
Chambers Review
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Head of the London and Thames Valley employment team at Shoosmiths, Kevin McCavish has considerable experience advising clients on employment issues relating to unfair dismissal, whistle-blowing and discrimination matters. His expertise extends to include advising on various HR matters encompassing grievances as well as handling employment tribunal claims. McCavish regularly represents household names in a range of sectors including those in charities, finance and recruitment.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Kevin is very responsive, commercial, experienced and provides excellent advice on any employment related matters."
"He is always timely, always detailed in his advice and explains matters in an understandable language."
"Kevin's commercial awareness balanced with plain advice is something I have not found elsewhere."
"Kevin is very responsive, commercial, experienced and provides excellent advice on any employment related matters."
"He is always timely, always detailed in his advice and explains matters in an understandable language."
"Kevin's commercial awareness balanced with plain advice is something I have not found elsewhere."