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Nicola Twine

Nicola Twine

  • Called to BAR: 1999
  • Employment Law

Summary

Nicola joined Parklane Plowden in 2007 from Park Court Chambers (Leeds), where she specialised in both Personal Injury and in Employment Law – which she continues to do, finding the Employment work complements her PI practice well.

Specialist areas of law include

  • Employment Law

Profile description

Specialist Practice Areas

Direct Access Employment Law

Nicola has an extensive practise specialising in Employment Law. She represents both Claimants and Respondents in equal measure and is instructed from a variety of sources, including individuals, small undertakings, regional and nationwide companies and the public sector extending to the Police, Local Authority, NHS and PC Trusts, and solicitors practices. She regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal, on matters ranging from application hearings to multi day cases, and she has appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal on numerous matters also. In recent years a number of her EAT cases have been reported.

In addition to representation in tribunals Nicola undertakes both advisory and drafting work. She has drafted and advised on a number of compromise agreements and been involved in the negotiation on direct access basis of terms of settlement on the termination of employment. Nicola has also represented parties in employment mediations, both judicial and non judicial.

Nicola is accredited to take instructions on a direct access basis and is happy to do so where cases are suitable for instruction on this basis. In recent years she has seen significant growth in her direct access instructions.

An additional practice in personal injury law, with regular advisory and representation work on employers liability claims, complements Nicola’s employment practice.

Widely experienced in all areas of employment law, including:

· Unfair and wrongful dismissal
· TUPE
· Breach of Contract
· Restrictive Covenants
· Working Time Regulations
· Victimisation
· Redundancy (individual and collective)
· All types of discrimination, including: sex, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, and disability.

Recommendations

Recommended in The Legal 500 as: "painstaking and approachable", a "thorough junior who works well with clients'," who "continues to build a good practice early in her call'", and for whom her "employment practice sits well with her work related injury practice." (2010/11) and to have "handled discrimination law cases as well as mainstream matters" (2009/10).

Articles/Publications

Ncola's most recent article- Foxcroft v (1) Flaherty and (2) Tesco Underwriting Ltd, Bradford County Court, 27th June 2016. Please follow the link below to read the full article:

http://www.parklaneplowden.co.uk/foxcroft-v-1-flaherty-and-2-tesco-underwriting-ltd-bradford-county-court-27th-june-2016/n284/ 

Lectures/Seminars

Nicola has presented seminars on a variety of topics, both in-house at law firms, Local Authorites, and for other organistions. Topics include:

Highway cases

Personal Injury Updates

Disease Protocol

Work Related Upper Limb Disorders

Discrimination update

Harassment in Employment Tribunals

Procedure in Employment Tribunals

Employment updates and key developments

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