Employment Law in Education 2016 - Manchester - Speakers

Peter Woodhouse, Partner, Stone King

Peter is a partner in the employment team at Stone King. Over the years, he has acted for numerous education clients in the maintained and independent sectors both as advocate in the employment tribunal and as adviser in non-contentious matters.

Dai Durbridge, Partner, Browne Jacobson

Dai is a Partner in the award winning education team at Browne Jacobson solicitors. Browne Jacobson advises over 800 schools and academies on the full range of issues, including collaboration, governance, employment law and HR.  Dai is regarded as an expert in safeguarding within education.

Heather Mitchell, Senior Associate, Browne Jacobson

Heather specialises in contentious and non-contentious employment matters including; contractual issues, unfair dismissal, redundancy and all areas of discrimination.

Naseem Nabi, Partner, Veale Wasbrough Vizards

Naseem is a Partner in the Employment team at Veale Wasbrough Vizards. Naseem advises the firm's education clients on all these aspects including academy conversions, TUPE, trade union recognition and collective bargaining agreements.

Craig Vincent, HR Consultant, Stone King

Craig advises on all aspects of HR, providing pragmatic, ‘can-do’ advice and in how strategic HR can add value to an organisation and particularly enjoys working in recruitment and selection, induction, staff engagement and performance management.

Richard Hewitt, Senior Associate, Veale Wasbrough Vizards

Richard has worked exclusively with schools and education charities both locally and nationally for several years now and advises on a wide range of employment law issues

Tom Wallace, HR Consultant, Browne Jacobson

Tom specialises in educational HR, with a particular focus on academies having worked in one of the largest Multi Academy Trusts for over 5 years. Tom has managed and led on a variety of change management projects including large restructures, workforce reductions and strategic absence management reviews.

Jean Boyle, Senior Associate Employment Team

An experienced employment lawyer Jean specialises in acting for those in the not for profit and education sectors and is fully versed in the employment law issues facing these organisations.