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About
Provided by Sean Jones KC
Practice Areas
Sean specialises in employment and sports law. His employment practice is broad. He acts for individuals, trade unions, employers' federations, international banks, airlines, public and private utilities, hospitals, universities, firms of solicitors, television and other media companies, local authorities, technology and computer companies and charities. He advises upon and litigates claims across the full range of employment issues including unfair and wrongful dismissal (including 'whistle-blowing' dismissals), race, sex, disability, sexual orientation and religious discrimination, equal pay and transfer of undertakings. He specialises in high value claims of particular complexity and has appeared as leader a number of times in the Supreme Court. His Sports practice is principally focused on football cases. He has represented a number of Premier League and other teams in manager and player disputes and for managers in disputes with their clubs.
Career
Called to the Bar and joined Chambers in 1991. Appointed a Fee-paid Employment Judge in 2011, took silk in 2012 and appointed Recorder in 2019.
Professional Memberships
ELBA, ELA, COMBAR, Discrimination Law Association, Industrial Law Society, British Association for Sport and the Law.
Publications
Tolley's Employment Handbook (general editor).
Personal
Educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School 1977-84 and Worcester College, Oxford 1985-89 (BA Hons in Jurisprudence, BCL). Born 9 July 1966. Lives in Wimbledon.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Sean Jones KC is renowned among peers and clients alike for his robust style of advocacy and extensive employment law knowledge, particularly in relation to discrimination. He is regularly instructed in highly complex employment cases, handling everything from unfair dismissal cases to holiday pay and equal pay matters, as well as cases examining workers' rights to the national minimum wage.
Sean Jones KC is a highly rated practitioner who is regularly instructed in football matters with employment law aspects, such as constructive dismissal and discrimination cases.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is straightforward, pragmatic and extremely user-friendly."
"My go-to silk for this sector."
"Sean Jones is a fearsome intellect and a tremendous cross-examiner."
"Sean Jones is a scarily good cross-examiner.He has exceptional powers of strategy and anaylsis."
"Sean is a great lawyer, who is strategic and clear. He also understands the pressures his instructing solicitors are under and the wider commercial picture."
"Sean is very approachable, good with clients and is able to explain things very clearly."
"He is super intelligent but not stuffy or overly lawyerly."
"He is straightforward, pragmatic and extremely user-friendly."
"My go-to silk for this sector."
"Sean Jones is a fearsome intellect and a tremendous cross-examiner."
"Sean Jones is a scarily good cross-examiner.He has exceptional powers of strategy and anaylsis."
"Sean is a great lawyer, who is strategic and clear. He also understands the pressures his instructing solicitors are under and the wider commercial picture."
"Sean is very approachable, good with clients and is able to explain things very clearly."
"He is super intelligent but not stuffy or overly lawyerly."
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