Peter Woodhouse

Practice Areas

Peter is Stone King's Interim CEO and a Partner at the firm. He has been assisting clients since he qualified in 1991, advising on a full range of employment matters aiming to provide support to clients managing change in their businesses.

Peter has acted for numerous clients over the years including owner-managers as well as multi-nationals.

He is an experienced Employment Tribunal advocate and his work has been case reported as advocate in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

He has acted in hundreds of tribunal cases including unfair dismissal and complex discrimination cases. He has trained and written courses for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Peter is also widely recognised as a leader in the transport sector and regularly assists operators in dealing with regulatory matters. He has acted for bus and coach operators and hauliers in many matters of significance to the industry. He is Chairman of Logistics UK South West Regional Freight Council UK South West Regional Freight Council.

He considers that businesses prefer to act responsibly both as a matter of policy and economics and works with clients to ensure their outcomes in terms of responsible business are delivered.

Career

Peter was a Partner at a large Bristol firm before becoming a Partner at Stone King LLP in March 2006. He is qualified as a solicitor and barrister and for 10 years was believed to be the only solicitor on the panel of Treasury Counsel.

Publications

Peter was quoted by People Management in an article examining employment law and sex discrimination.

Peter has trained and written courses for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Personal

Peter enjoys many sports including cycling, running, swimming and skiing. He also enjoys the challenge of cryptic crosswords as well as medieval history.

Work Highlights

Business: advising a large drinks company on collective redundancies of around 700 staff. Including advising on disputes with the unions, levels of and entitlements to redundancy pay upon re-employment, related TUPE issues of various sites.

Charity: advising a Charter charity on the loss of staff: advising on worker and employment status, running collective processes for both, providing detailed advice regarding calculations of pay for redundancy purposes:

Charity: advising a charity regarding allegations against the MD arising out of a whistleblowing process. Allegations including sexual harassment and potential criminal offences. Working with Stone King’s charity team to ensure all charity governance matters correctly handled including delegation of authorities and Serious Incident Reporting

Transport: running a series of webinars in relation to practical matters of import to the transport sector through and exiting Covid and advising in relation to consequent litigation. Also running a webinars on subjects including vehicular Bridge Strikes and managing drivers in logistics.

Professional Memberships

He is a member of the Confederation of Passenger Transport.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

England and Wales