Before being called to the Bar, Ian was a solicitor from 1973 to 1987.
Ian has appeared in the European Court of Justice, the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, the Inner and Outer Houses of the Court of Session, the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Scotland and England, the Central Arbitration Committee and employment tribunals throughout Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.
Employment Tribunal Chair (England & Wales) in Newcastle ET.
Has appeared in the Piper Alpha Inquiry, the Ocean Odyssey Inquiry, the Orkney Inquiry and the Scotland/Northern Ireland Electricity Interconnector Inquiry.
Notable Employment Cases Include:
PRESS SUMMARY North and others (Appellants) v Dumfries and Galloway Council (Respondent) (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 45 On appeal from [2011] CSIH 2 JUSTICES: Lord Hope (Deputy President), Lady...
The appellant employees (F) appealed against an employment tribunal's decision that their equal pay claims against the respondent NHS Board (N) were time-barred. F had initially been employed by NHS...
EAT PROVIDES FURTHER CLARIFICATION ON SECTION 1(6) OF THE EQUAL PAY ACT 1970 AND THE ARTICLE 141 DOCTRINE OF SINGLE SOURCE: ANOTHER WIN FOR CLAIMANTS The Employment Appeal Tribunal...
An employment tribunal had correctly concluded that a minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland was an office holder and not an employee on the basis that the facts...
An Employment Appeal Tribunal, when considering the loss suffered by an unfairly dismissed employee, had made an error of principle in distinguishing between loss of a final salary pension scheme...
A trade union, which wrote to a local authority to complain about pay inequalities suffered by its members, had not lodged a collective grievance for the purposes of the Employment...
Before being called to the Bar, Ian was a solicitor from 1973 to 1987.
Ian has appeared in the European Court of Justice, the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, the Inner and Outer Houses of the Court of Session, the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Scotland and England, the Central Arbitration Committee and employment tribunals throughout Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.
Employment Tribunal Chair (England & Wales) in Newcastle ET.
Has appeared in the Piper Alpha Inquiry, the Ocean Odyssey Inquiry, the Orkney Inquiry and the Scotland/Northern Ireland Electricity Interconnector Inquiry.
Notable Employment Cases Include:
PRESS SUMMARY North and others (Appellants) v Dumfries and Galloway Council (Respondent) (Scotland) [2013] UKSC 45 On appeal from [2011] CSIH 2 JUSTICES: Lord Hope (Deputy President), Lady...
The appellant employees (F) appealed against an employment tribunal's decision that their equal pay claims against the respondent NHS Board (N) were time-barred. F had initially been employed by NHS...
EAT PROVIDES FURTHER CLARIFICATION ON SECTION 1(6) OF THE EQUAL PAY ACT 1970 AND THE ARTICLE 141 DOCTRINE OF SINGLE SOURCE: ANOTHER WIN FOR CLAIMANTS The Employment Appeal Tribunal...
An employment tribunal had correctly concluded that a minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland was an office holder and not an employee on the basis that the facts...
An Employment Appeal Tribunal, when considering the loss suffered by an unfairly dismissed employee, had made an error of principle in distinguishing between loss of a final salary pension scheme...
A trade union, which wrote to a local authority to complain about pay inequalities suffered by its members, had not lodged a collective grievance for the purposes of the Employment...