Our Solicitors - Meredith Hurst

Background

Meredith qualified as a lawyer in 2001 and has a broad base of client experience gained with national and international law firms. Meredith is a versatile employment lawyer who advises senior employees and businesses on all employment law related matters.

Experience

Meredith has experience of advising employer clients across a wide range of industries including Finance & Banking, Leisure & Tourism, Transport, Manufacturing, I.T. and Telecommunications.

Areas of expertise include:

Employers

Drafting and advising on the application of dismissal, disciplinary and grievance procedures
Advising on the legal aspects of conduct and performance dismissals
Transfer of undertakings and employment law aspects of business sales
Advising on best practice to avoid employment tribunal claims
Collective consultation and redundancy
Advising on all aspects of discrimination law
Disputes concerning worker and employment status
Variation of contract

Employees

Advising on unfair dismissal claims
Whistleblowing
Pay and bonus disputes
Discrimination claims
Contractual disputes
Executive and director level terminations and negotiations
Settlement agreements
Advising on contracts and restrictive covenants

Notable transactions

Advising on a large pension fund dispute for the director a major bank;
Negotiating the exit package for the director of a premiership football club;
Advising a national transport company on the employment status of its drivers;
Advising a major PLC on the employment aspects of a business acquisition;
Acting for a US based research company on the employment aspects of setting up a UK branch office;
Reported case in the appellate tribunal: Jane Wess v Science Museum Group UKEAT/2014 considering implied terms and variation of contract.