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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 14:38:23+00:00

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"Killer cross-examiner" Ian Truscott QC of Murray Stable is "one of the best around." A barrister who is meticulous in his approach, he is "able to form a clear strategy to win a case in minutes"
Widely respected for his "strong analysis of a case and sound commercial advice"
He has the "ear of the court" and is particularly praised for his "courtroom magic"
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.
Ian Truscott QC practises at both the English and Scottish Bars and inter alia has represented claimants and respondents in the most significant cases in Scotland throughout the 1990's and the early years of the 21st Century as outlined below.
Marshall and Others v. Strathclyde Regional Council.
The value of those claims was in excess of £100million. Two of these cases, Wallace and Others v. Strathclyde Regional Council and Marshall and Others v. Strathclyde Regional Council (sub nom Glasgow City Council v. Marshall and Others) were finally determined by the House of Lords.
The latter case remains the lead authority on section 1(3) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 (as amended) in respect of the scope of 'objective justification' in direct and indirect claims. Mr Truscott represented Strathclyde Regional Council in all the aforementioned cases (and for those cases which were the subject of appeal after local government reorganisation in 1996, Strathclyde Regional Council's 11 statutory successors) at all stages from the employment tribunal to, in the Wallace and Marshall cases, appearance in the House of Lords. In all the aforementioned cases Mr Truscott, representing the employers was successful.
In 1998, all the primary school head teachers in state schools in the 32 local authorities in Scotland, with union backing, raised equal pay claims seeking parity of pay with secondary head teachers. The value of these claims was, nationally, approximately £3/4 billion. Three 'test cases' (Morton, Nutt and Paterson v. South Ayrshire Council) were selected by the claimants' trades union on the basis that they raised all the issues necessary to cover all the circumstances disclosed in the cases which had been lodged nationally. Mr Truscott QC represented the employers. Evidence was taken over 58 days, making this case the longest running equal pay case to date in Scotland. Notwithstanding various issues of principle, such as the permitted scope of a cross-employer comparison and the validity of parasitic claims which were the subject of appeals to the Court of Session, the case was decided in 2003 and the employers were successful; the judgment was not appealed.
As well as representing employers in the cases referred to above, Mr Truscott also represented the successful claimants in McGuiness and Others v. Scottish Power, an equal value case backed by UNISON. He has appeared in a number of other equal pay cases over the years.
In addition to academic, representational and opinion work in the field of equal pay, Mr Truscott also regularly speaks on the subject to experienced legal practitioners, at various conferences and seminars.
Lister v. Forth Dry Docks, House of Lords in 1989.
Allen v. Sterling District Council, Inner House of the Court of Session (Scotland equivalent of the CoA).
Kelman v. Care Contracts, EAT.
Ian is regularly in the tribunals on other TUPE cases.

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