EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS - Key Persons


Alice Yandle

Job Titles:
  • Farrer & Co LLP
  • Member of Committee

Alistair Woodland - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of Committee

Allan Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee

Anna Birtwistle - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Farrer & Co LLP / Chair, International Committee
  • Member of Committee
Anna is a partner in the employment team at Farrer & Co. LLP specialising in Employment and Partnership law. Much of her work has an international angle and she specialises in advising executives and partners at the most senior levels of organisations, as well as multinational employers, on the full range of non-contentious and contentious matters, in particular focussing on employee competition and complex whistleblowing and discrimination matters.

Arpita Dutt

Job Titles:
  • Arpita Dutt Consulting
  • Member of Committee

Beth Hale - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Partner
  • Member of Committee
Beth Hale is a Partner specialising in Employment and Partnership law and also acts as General Counsel for the firm. Beth is extremely well-regarded and has a particular strength in explaining and simplifying complex legal concepts.

Bina Patel

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair
  • Member of Committee

Brian Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Caitlin Farrar

Job Titles:
  • Farrer & Co LLP
  • Member of Committee

Caspar Glyn KC - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Catrina Smith - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Member of Committee

Cerys Mather - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Associate at DAC Beachcroft LLP
  • Chairman of Junior Committee
  • Member of Committee
Cerys is an Associate at DAC Beachcroft LLP, where she has been a member of the London Employment Team for three years after qualifying at Slaughter and May in 2019. She advises employers across multiple sectors including financial services, health, retail and construction on the full range of contentious and non-contentious issues. She has a particular focus on tech clients, having spent time on two separate in-house secondments in the sector. Cerys has been closely involved with ELA for the past four years, spending two years on the Junior Committee and then two years as the Junior Member at Large on the Management Committee. She is now looking forward to taking the reins of the Junior Committee as its Chair.

Charlotte Middleton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Knights Professional Services Limited / Member at Large
  • Senior Associate at Knights Plc
Charlotte is a Senior Associate at Knights plc, a legal and professional services business delivering services to business clients across the UK. Charlotte trained and is based in the Sheffield office and qualified in 2015. Charlotte is a passionate no nonsense employment lawyer with particular expertise in advising businesses in retail, manufacturing/engineering, heritage sites and financial services.

Charmaine Pollock

Job Titles:
  • Farrer & Co LLP
  • Member of Committee

Claire Rolston

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Director and Founder of CLR Law
Claire is a Director and founder of CLR Law, a boutique employment law and commercial litigation practice in Gateshead. Prior to that she was a Partner at a firm in Leeds.

Consilia Legal

Job Titles:
  • Representative

David Regan - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Member of Committee

Dr John McMullen

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Eliza Nash - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Member of Committee

Fiona Herrell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Regional Representative, Scotland
Fiona provides commercial, strategic and pragmatic advice on all aspects of employment law. Her general advisory practice includes assisting employers with complex disciplinary and grievance matters, redundancies and reorganisations, covenant enforceability, contractual variations and executive on-boarding/terminations. More... ScotlandRegionalRep [at] elaweb.org.uk

Hannah Belton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Member of Committee

Helen Adams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee

Ivor Adair

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Jen Danvers

Job Titles:
  • Barrister at Cloisters
Jen Danvers is a barrister at Cloisters (2012 call) and a fee-paid Employment Judge in the South West region. She represents and advises both employees and employers across the full range of employment disputes. She also undertakes internal investigations and has experience via a secondment with in-house practice. Prior to starting pupillage, she worked for a year within the employment team of an international law firm.

Jennifer Danvers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee

Jenny Allan

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Jo-Anne Graham

Job Titles:
  • Government Legal Department
  • Member of Committee

Kathleen Healy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee

Katy Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Secretary

Laura Cropley

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Laura Ramos

Job Titles:
  • Environment
  • Member of Committee

Lewis Silkin

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Training Committee

Lindsey Knowles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Employment Lawyer
Lindsey is an experienced employment lawyer who acts for a range of clients including employers of all sizes as well as employees. Lindsey is a Senior Associate based in the Liverpool office of Brabners Employment and Pensions Team.

Louise Taft - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of Committee

Marc Jones

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Editor, ELA Briefing
  • Member of Committee

Marianne Russell

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Marie Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Employment Lawyer
Marie Walsh is an experienced employment lawyer who has acted on behalf of a wide range of clients throughout her 19 years qualification. She is well known and respected amongst her peers and clients for her straightforward no nonsense approach to the issues and her common sense attitude when it comes to the parties best interests and costs.

Michael Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Michelle Wooding

Job Titles:
  • Knights Professional Services Limited
  • Member of Committee

Morgan LaRoche

Job Titles:
  • Regional Representative, Wales
Hannah is described by the Legal 500 as being "full of great advice on the how, what and why of HR issues".

Natasha Adom

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Natasha Mills

Job Titles:
  • Clyde & Co LLP
  • Member of Committee

Nicola Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Government Legal Department
  • Member of Committee

Olivia Dobbie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
Olivia-Faith Dobbie is an employment and discrimination law barrister at Cloisters, called to the Bar in 2007. She practises in both the civil courts and employment tribunals and has appeared in cases at all levels, including the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Olivia was appointed as a part-time Employment Judge in 2020.

Paul McFarlane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Capsticks Solicitors LLP
  • Capsticks Solicitors LLP / past Chair
  • Member of Committee
  • Partner at Capsticks
Paul is a Partner at Capsticks who he joined in 2019. Prior to that he was a Partner for a decade at Weightmans and before that he was an in-house solicitor at London Transport and then Royal Mail. Paul has 25 years' post qualification experience advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues.

Pooja Dasgupta

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Farrer & Co LLP / Junior Member at Large
  • Specialist
Pooja is a specialist employment and partnership lawyer, advising senior executives, LLP members and employers on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Prior to joining Farrer & Co LLP, she spent her first 5 years of qualification at boutique law firm, CM Murray LLP.

Rebecca Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair
  • Member of Committee

Rob Briggs

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Rupert Scrase

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Employment Lawyer
  • Scrase Employment Solicitors / Treasurer
Rupert has been an employment lawyer for over 20 years. He is based in Bristol and runs his own firm, Scrase Employment Solicitors which he set up in 2008. The firm advises employers, particularly in the engineering and manufacturing sectors

Ruth Nodder

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Sam Greenhalgh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Legal Director in the Employment Team at Birketts LLP
Sam is a Legal Director in the employment team at Birketts LLP. More... UpperSERegionalRep [at] elaweb.

Sarah Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee

Sarah Wilder - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Member of Committee

Steph Pye

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Committee
  • Associate in Shoosmiths Employment
Steph is an Associate in Shoosmiths Employment team, based in Birmingham. Steph's employment experience is mainly in respect of employer clients spanning a broad range of sectors.

Tom Moore

Job Titles:
  • Cole Khan Solicitors LLP
  • Member of Committee

Uzair Zafar

Job Titles:
  • Clarion Solicitors Limited
  • Member of Committee

Victoria Speed

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Trust for London