Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson

  • MA (Hons) Jurisprudence, Oxford University
  • Year of Call: 1989

  • Lincoln’s Inn

    Practice
    Specialism

    Instructions undertaken

    Employment Law, Civil Litigation including personal injury work.
    Qualified to undertake work under the Bar Public Access Scheme

    Specialism

    Employment Law
    Discrimination in the field of work and employment

    Experience

    Having spent a number of years working as an employed barrister in the Employment Law department of a major national law firm, Paul returned to Broadway House Chambers in 2003 to specialise in employment law.  He has in depth experience of most areas of employment law including unfair dismissal, race, sex and disability discrimination, protected disclosures, TUPE, collective consultation and restrictive covenants.

    He practices mainly in Employment Tribunal work, representing both claimants and respondents, across the both the commercial and public sectors and throughout the UK including Northern Ireland.

    He is regularly instructed to provide merits advices in insurance funded work and to provide advice or a second opinion when employment law disputes are developing with the aim of achieving resolution without litigation.

    Examples of recent cases:

    • Defending a major Plc against a series of unfair dismissal claims arising out of a redundancy exercise.
    • Defending a Further Education College against race discrimination claims and an unfair dismissal claim involving protected disclosures suggesting that marks in a degree course were not awarded on merit.
    • Defence of a charity providing care to vulnerable adults against unfair dismissal claims brought by care workers raising complex human rights issues.
    Professional Memberships

    Employment Law Bar Association

    Employment Lawyer’s Association

    Industrial Law Society

    North-Eastern Circuit

    Notable Cases

    Court of Appeal

    Re W and another (minors)(social worker: disclosure) [1998] 2 All ER 281 – procedure – disclosure, confidentiality

    S v S (Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police intervening) [1999] 1All ER 801 – procedure – disclosure, judicial discretion

    Kirklees Metropolitan Council v Radecki [2009]  ICR 1244 & IRLR 555 – meaning of effective date of termination

    Akintola v Capita Symonds Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 405, All ER (D) 224 – protected disclosure/health and safety dismissal

    Employment Appeal Tribunal

    Conoco v Booth [2001] UKEAT 83003001 , All ER (D) 140 – DDA: duty to make reasonable adjustments - transferring employees to fill an existing vacancy/burden of proof

    Giannelli v Edmund Bell & Co. [2005] UKEAT 0192050609, All ER (D) 29 – whether commercial agent may also be a worker within section 230(3) ERA 1996