
Oliver joined chambers in 1993 after completing his pupillage here. Oliver specialises in all fields of employment and discrimination law and in commercial agency law.
Oliver is regarded as a leading junior in employment law and acts regularly for major commercial clients and for most of the major trade unions. Within employment law he has particular specialist experience in breach of contract claims (including claims involving restrictive covenants, PHI and negligent references), industrial action and trade union recognition disputes, Working Time and TUPE claims.
Oliver is probably the leading junior, and one of the leading barristers, within the field of commercial agency claims; he acts for both agents and principals and has appeared in several of the most important reported cases, including the recent House of Lords case of
Lonsdale v. Howard & Hallam.