Sara Wilson
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Employment
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Band 3
About
Provided by Sara Wilson
Practice Areas
Sara advises corporate clients across a wide range of sectors, including retail and leisure as well as small family run businesses and high net worth individuals in relation to the whole range of employment and HR issues. She advises in house counsel and HR teams on issues ranging from recruitment and termination of employment, enforcement of restrictive covenants and confidential information, managing employee performance, family friendly policies, restructuring programmes and business transfers. Sara has wide-ranging experience in defending and bringing claims for discrimination and unfair dismissal in the employment tribunal and defending breach of contract claims in the High Court. She has published material on subjects such as discrimination, data protection, bonuses and redundancies. Sara regularly speaks at internal and external seminars on employment law issues, including the firm’s Managing People Series of seminars designed to give practical advice to HR professionals on handling matters such as sickness and disability, poor performance and equality in the workplace.
Chambers Review
UK
Sara Wilson is noted for her adept handling of both contentious and non-contentious employment matters such as commercial transactions, reorganisations and policy changes to disciplinary processes, as well as discrimination claims. She is based in the Cheltenham office of Charles Russell Speechlys.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sara is always on hand to give detailed advice and to clearly discuss the options we have, no matter how complex the case might be."
"Sara is great to work with to ensure that each scenario is handled carefully and correctly."
"Sara is always on hand to give detailed advice and to clearly discuss the options we have, no matter how complex the case might be."
"Sara is great to work with to ensure that each scenario is handled carefully and correctly."