Department: employment
Location: manchester
Admission Date: 1981

Areas of Practice: leisure and retail; large-scale discrimination cases involving harassment; equal pay claims; job evaluations; advocacy

Michael regularly appears in employment tribunals across the country, having an excellent track record. His specific area of expertise is advocacy, having over 18 years experience of contentious cases. His work is almost exclusively respondent based acting for larger corporate clients primarily in the retail and leisure industry. He has acted for various divisions of Whitbread throughout his career. Michael also has wide-ranging expertise in training and regularly conducts updates on employment issues through workshops and seminars. He is a regular contributor to various publications on employment matters. Michael has addressed The Lawyer's Conference in Monte Carlo. He is a member of the Employment Lawyers' Association and is their representative on the Regional Employment Tribunal Users Committee. He chaired the regional ELA working party on worker status.