About me
I’m a legal director in our Health Employment team, advising NHS trusts, foundation trusts and healthcare providers on a broad range of employment law matters. I support clients with complex and sensitive issues, from whistleblowing and discrimination claims to MHPS investigations, disciplinary processes and performance management.
With experience handling high-profile litigation and regulatory challenges, I regularly conduct my own advocacy at case management and preliminary hearings. Clients value my collaborative, clear and pragmatic approach—particularly when navigating risk and internal processes involving medical staff or senior leadership.
I’ve led legal advice surgeries, delivered client training, and previously hosted a regular BBC radio segment on employment law.
Clients describe me as thorough and personable and trust me to support them through the most challenging situations. I’m actively involved in baby loss awareness work and have spoken across the firm to help raise awareness and strengthen support for colleagues.
My experience
- G -v- S NHS Trust – successfully defended a two-and-a-half-week ET claim relating to protected disclosure and health and safety detriment, direct disability and/or religion or belief discrimination, discrimination arising from disability, indirect disability and/or religion or belief discrimination, reasonable adjustments, harassment and victimisation. The key factual aspects of the case centered around requirements to wear a mask, a requirement to receive the Covid vaccination and what the claimant described as harassment that resulted from her saying she was not able to wear a mask and challenging the efficacy and safety of the Covid vaccine and mask-wearing. As an employee in a healthcare setting, this was all linked to the Covid pandemic and changing government requirements and guidance. Despite the list of issues extending to beyond 30 pages, the claimant did not succeed in any aspect of her claim.
- Instructed to act on behalf of a foundation trust in relation to an MHPS investigation which found there was a case to answer in respect of both conduct and performance issues pertaining to a procedure which led to a patient’s unexpected death. Instructed to represent the trust at the internal disciplinary and appeal hearings (which resulted in the doctor’s dismissal). The doctor subsequently pursued claims of unfair dismissal and race discrimination against the trust which we successfully defended / achieved strike out at preliminary hearing.
- Instructed to act on behalf of a foundation trust in relation to a consultant practitioner who was suspected of inappropriately procuring controlled drugs for their own use with the complicating factor that the practitioner had alcohol addiction. Provided ongoing advice throughout the lifespan of this highly sensitive matter (due to the concerns not only around patient safety but also the potential vulnerability of the practitioner themselves). The matter concluded in the consultant’s eventual dismissal and de-registration.
- Drafted MARS agreement for a foundation trust and successfully fielded all subsequent queries throughout the duration of the MARS scheme.
