Employment

What we do
Our role is to provide you with the information you need to deliver first class legal services to your clients. We write overviews to illustrate the headline points of each of our topics. We write KnowHow, in the form of detailed practice notes, to guide you through the key practical issues of each topic, and clearly drafted precedents with drafting notes.
To make it easy to find related items, we link these to the relevant
Butterworths commentary, consolidated legislation, cases and forms that we have selected for each topic. And every week we review and analyse legal developments and send you an update by email.

The LexisPSL way
It is easy to access information on the topic you are interested in. For example, the employment contract:

  • Click on 'Employment contract' in 'Starting employment' which takes you straight to our overview. This gives a short summary of the topic
  • Click on the KnowHow tab and select the practice note you need. For example 'Hours'
  • In the practice note, the hyperlinks in the righthand column will take you directly through to relevant cases, legislation, and passages in Harvey
  • Click on the 'Return to Employment contract' link at the top of the practice note. Then click on the Precedents tab and select the document you need, for example 'Agreement - basic employment contract'. From here you can
  • View the precedent and drafting notes relating to each paragraph
  • Download the precedent in Word format with auto-numbering, save it, amend it, and print it and/or the drafting notes
  • Click on the 'Return to Employment contract' link. The Cases tab lists all the key cases relevant to the topic, as selected by our Employment
  • Professional Support Lawyers Likewise, the Legislation tab links to key fully consolidated legislative provisions relevant to the topic

Philip ThorntonPhilip Thornton
Barrister, Employment
philip.thornton@lexisnexis.co.uk
Philip's expertise ranges broadly across the employment law field, with a particular emphasis on litigation, as well as advisory work. He has considerable advocacy experience in employment tribunals, County Courts, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He has practised extensively in the areas of discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE transfers, restrictive covenants, collective redundancies, wrongful and unfair dismissals, and trade union and industrial dispute law. He practised as a barrister for 17 years at the specialist employment law set, Devereux Chambers, before moving to LexisNexis in early 2006 to assist in the development of online employment law services.

Charlotte HamerCharlotte Hamer
Solicitor, Employment
charlotte.hamer@lexisnexis.co.uk
Charlotte has a detailed knowledge of employment law and substantial experience of drafting current awareness for both lawyers and their clients, as well as precedents and practice notes. She has also written employment articles and case reports for a number of specialist journals, including Personnel Today and Company Secretary's Review.  Having trained at Mills and Reeve, Charlotte moved on to what was then Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave, now Beachcroft LLP. She then moved to Stephenson Harwood becoming their first employment Professional Support Lawyer and was latterly at Bond Pearce LLP before moving to LexisNexis. Both at Stephenson Harwood and Bond Pearce LLP Charlotte was substantially involved in providing training internally and for clients, as well as writing client briefings and assisting with business development.

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