Clive is a Partner in the Employment team.
He has spent 25 years working with a range of Plc, private corporate employers and senior executives. He combines his wide-ranging knowledge of employment law with a practical approach to his clients' problems and challenges.
Clive has a background in high-value (multi-party) tribunal litigation. He is an experienced advocate and a CEDR-accredited mediator. In relation to senior employees, he deals with allegations of data theft, breaches of directors' duties and non-compliance with contractual restraint of trade (restrictive covenant) clauses. He is highly experienced at whistleblowing and discrimination issues.
Away from the courts, he is also recognised for his work around employment restructuring (including TUPE and insolvency). In recent years he has built a practice focusing on off-payroll labour: the employment and taxation structures of partnerships and LLPs, franchising models and employment agencies.
Clive also regularly handles a range of core employment law matters, including worker status issues, performance management, long-term employee absenteeism, disciplinary and grievance procedures, employee compromise agreements and senior personnel severance packages.
Clive is a committee member of the Industrial Law Society and on the Employer Board of Nottingham Law School. He is one of the editors of the reference work: "Tolleys Employment Law Service".
Examples of how Clive has supported clients include:
- supporting a national care agency in the defence of one of the largest and highest-profile national minimum wage claims in the UK (featured in the Guardian and Channel 4's Dispatches programme);
- successfully defending 120 employment-based claims brought against the administrator of collapsed train refurbishment specialist;
- successfully overseeing the transfer the national Caledonian sleeper service between England and Scotland, with the retention of all train-driver jobs;
- settling a wide-ranging and complex whistleblowing claim brought against a financial institution following multiple allegations of product mis-selling and breach of financial standards.