Tim Goodwin

Practice Areas

Tim is recognised as a leading employment junior, His employment work is complemented by a personal injury practice that is focused on psychiatric injuries arising from workplace stress, harassment and bullying.

Tim qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and, before being called to the Bar, practiced as a Senior Associate in a City employment firm. In that role he was responsible for cases at all levels and across the broad spectrum of employment disputes. Tim’s considerable experience of employment disputes and civil litigation has furnished him with a level of expertise and knowledge that is well beyond his year of call, meaning that he is frequently instructed on complex, difficult and high-value cases.

Tim has considerable advocacy experience, appearing in tribunals and county courts on a near-daily basis. He also appears in the High Court and Employment Appeal Tribunal, often unled. Tim combines his court work with advisory and drafting work, and can be depended on to deliver results consistently, quickly and commercially. Additionally, Tim has extensive experience of alternative dispute resolution, including formal, informal and judicial mediations, settlement negotiations and arbitration.

Career

2008: MA (Hons), University of Edinburgh

2009: Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP

2010: Legal Practice Certificate, Kaplan law School

2010: LLB (Hons), Nottingham Trent University

2012: Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors

2014: Bar Transfer Test

Professional Memberships

Government Legal Department’s Junior-Juniors Panel

Employment Lawyers Association

ELA Management Committee member and director

Industrial Law Society

Employment Law Bar Association

Personal Injury Bar Association

Publications

More than an injured feeling: personal injury claims in tribunal proceedings (ELA Briefing, March 2023) [https://www.elaweb.org.uk/law-and-practice/ela-briefing/more-injured-feeling-personal-injury-claims-tribunal-proceedings?check_logged_in=1]

Remote hearings: the good, the bad and the useful (ELA Briefing, July 2022)

Large-scale redundancies: the basic toolkit (ELA Briefing, July 2020)

Jhuti: a new approach to discerning the reason for dismissal? (ELA Briefing, March 2020)