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Bernadette is a regular and successful advocate in the employment tribunals. She has considerable experience of MHPS proceedings and whistleblowing claims brought by doctors covering both internal MHPS proceedings and tribunal hearings. She is also an experienced and popular trainer to a variety of audiences, providing update sessions to ACAS amongst others. In a healthcare setting Bernadette tailors her employment law sessions to meet the specific needs and requirements of NHS clients. She has also dealt with a number of high profile investigations in a healthcare setting involving considerable press attention.
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Experience
- Advising an NHS trust in relation to a complex whistleblowing claim brought by a consultant against the trust and a private hospital
- Legal adviser to an MHPS capability panel who terminated the employment of a consultant for a one off act of gross negligence
- Personally conducting tribunal advocacy for an NHS trust resulting in a straight run of 12 successfully defended cases over a three year period
- Advising an NHS trust in relation to an injunction to resist industrial action which was in protest about dismissals
- Advising in relation to a highly sensitive investigation involving tampering with medical equipment
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Affiliations
- Member of the Liverpool Law Society
- Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
Bernadette Worthington's Expertise
Employment law
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