Professional Practices
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Our emerging professions liability team is at the forefront of assisting our insurer clients in product development and policy drafting and have developed genuine expertise in this sector. We recognise the growing importance of this sector for insurers and have responded to market needs with innovative, commercially sound solutions to new claims and their processes.
We have experience handling individual claims and scheme work for insurers regarding a wide range of professionals including charities/ associations, designers, educational consultants, management consultants, mortgage administrators, marketing professionals and will writers.
Our team understands that professions considered as emerging in one jurisdiction may be well established in another. We therefore draw on our deep rooted sector knowledge from our international network and understanding of local customs to guide insurers through these issues.
Advising on consultation with unions in redundancy and TUPE transfer situations where industrial action is threatened
Advising a company in the UK in relation to a high value claim brought by a trade union for a failure to inform and consult appropriately around a change programme.
Advising clients in establishing internal employee consultation structures (both with and without unions)
Advising on legal options around, and the legality, of balloting and any calls for strike action (and working in relation to any industrial action being called off)
Advising on a long-running employment tribunal case brought by a trade union Unite, relating to collective consultation and protective award proceedings
Advising a plc on a substantial pre-litigation equal pay case with over 600 potential claimants, which included undertaking an equal pay review, reporting on liability and quantum, negotiating with the trade union and co-ordinating with an equal pay expert and Counsel.
Working with an industrial services company in the UK in relation to a request from a training board for its registration as a leviable establishment.
Working with an international company in relation to the management of its relationship with its recognised unions, and the management of a dispute and avoidance of industrial action
Advising clients in dispute situations as to how to resolve existing disputes via ACAS and other processes
Assisted in drafting rule books revisions for 2 major trade unions
Advising on consultation with unions in redundancy and TUPE transfer situations where industrial action is threatened
Advising a company in the UK in relation to a high value claim brought by a trade union for a failure to inform and consult appropriately around a change programme.
Advising clients in establishing internal employee consultation structures (both with and without unions)
Advising on legal options around, and the legality, of balloting and any calls for strike action (and working in relation to any industrial action being called off)
Advising on a long-running employment tribunal case brought by a trade union Unite, relating to collective consultation and protective award proceedings
Advising a plc on a substantial pre-litigation equal pay case with over 600 potential claimants, which included undertaking an equal pay review, reporting on liability and quantum, negotiating with the trade union and co-ordinating with an equal pay expert and Counsel.
Working with an industrial services company in the UK in relation to a request from a training board for its registration as a leviable establishment.
Working with an international company in relation to the management of its relationship with its recognised unions, and the management of a dispute and avoidance of industrial action
Advising clients in dispute situations as to how to resolve existing disputes via ACAS and other processes
Assisted in drafting rule books revisions for 2 major trade unions
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