Source: http://www.oldsquare.co.uk/our-people/profile/louise-chudleigh
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 14:02:42+00:00

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"She has well-tuned tactical antennae."
"A confident, tenacious and formidable barrister with indefatigable advocacy."
"Senior junior with over 20 years' worth of practice in (the employment) field. She has earned an impressive reputation for her work in the discrimination sphere" and states that "She is very familiar with the law, has an excellent style and is very practical."
"skilled cross-examiner and is popular with clients."
"known for her excellent people skills and her clear and erudite judgment"
"gets to the root of a case ignoring those matters peripheral to winning or losing"
"composed and measured, she never flusters and is extremely client-friendly".
"user friendly approach, firm but fair advocacy style and good tactical awareness".
"strong on equal pay work".
"Part time judge Louise Chudleigh's practice focuses on complex discrimination and equal pay, with her cases having included Barker v. Birmingham City Council".
"Louise Chudleigh regularly acts on behalf of local authorities, NHS Trusts, police services and financial institutions and is known for her "meticulous preparation" - Who's Who Legal - UK Bar 2015.
Louise is regarded as a leading employment lawyer. She has huge experience of complex employment claims including in relation to discrimination involving all protected characteristics, equal pay and whistle-blowing.
She enjoys, and is skilled at preparing and presenting lengthy, fact rich, document heavy first instance employment cases. As well as practicing in the employment tribunals, Louise appears in the common law courts including in relation to claims for injunctive relief, equal pay and breach of contract matters. She also has an appellate practice and appears in the EAT and the CA, She has been to the Supreme Court recently on two separate occasions.
Louise's expertise includes healthcare work and she has a particular interest in cases involving doctors, public sector litigation and advisory work, education, claims by serving or former police officers and sport.
She is a certified and practicing mediator. She also has extensive experience of acting as a representative for parties in mediations and more recently is becoming known as an extremely effective mediator. Louise’s full mediation profile is available in a CV format which you can download from under her main CV at the top of this page.
Louise has held the office of fee paid Employment Judge since 2001 and chairs Employment Tribunal proceedings 6 weeks a year.
Louise is trained in and accepts public access work.
Member of the Bermuda Bar since 1989.
Employment Law Bar Association - former committee member; Industrial Law Society; Employment Lawyers Association.
Serco Ltd v Dahou  I.R.L.R. 30: trade union activities case about the burden of proof in detriment and automatic unfair dismissal claims. Court of appeal hearing pending.
Thomson v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Employment Appeal Tribunal, 30 January 2015: Disability discrimination and unfair dismissal case regarding reasonable adjustments, Polkey and range of reasonable responses.
Fynes v. St George's Hospital NHS Trust  EWHC 756 (QB) ,  All ER (D) 210 (Mar): HC decision concerning classification of disciplinary allegations as between conduct and health.
Bashford v. NFU : ET case concerning victimisation and unfair dismissal. Acted for Claimant and succeeded in both claims.
Dr Chhabra v. West London Mental Health NHS Trust  IRLR 22: SC decision about injunctive relief in relation to disciplinary proceedings.
West London Mental Health Trust v. Chhabra  IRLR 398: CA case about injunctive relief so as to restrain proposed disciplinary proceedings. SC decision awaited.
Dahou v. Serco Ltd : complex ET claim in which the ET was successfully persuaded to find that the dismissal of a trade union representative was for union related reasons.
Birmingham City Council v. Abdulla & others, SC  IRLR 38: SC decision about the right to bring equal pay claims in the common law courts.
Thompson v. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust : ET case about whether there had been a failure to make reasonable adjustments in relation to a doctor who was dismissed from gross misconduct.
Peat v. Birmingham City Council  All ER (D) 178 : EAT decision successfully defending a large award of costs by an ET.
Ashby and ors v. Birmingham City Council  EWHC 424: HC equal pay claim.
Louise is very experienced in this field, having practiced in this area for a considerable period of time and having been a fee-paid Employment Tribunal Judge since 2001. She is recognised in the legal directories as a leading senior junior with a large body of experience in discrimination and equal pay. She excels at preparing and presenting lengthy, fact rich, document heavy first instance employment cases. Her practice also encompasses all other aspects of employment litigation including injunctive proceedings relating to threatened disciplinary action or dismissal, confidential information and restrictive covenants and she appears in the appellate courts.
She regularly acts on behalf of Local Authorities, NHS Trusts, Police Services, financial institutions and other large employers in complex discrimination cases and recently has represented several local authorities and NHS Trusts in large multi-party equal pay and unfair dismissal claims. Of particular note, is the fact that she has been instructed in the Birmingham City Council equal pay litigation (reputed to be the largest ever equal pay case) since 2007.
Louise also acts regularly on behalf of employees and trade unions. She has particular expertise in matters relating to the employment and dismissal of medical practitioners and is instructed regularly by both NHS Trusts and doctors. She also works in the sphere of education.
Bailey v. BT : 10 day disability discrimination ET claim - won on all issues.
Barker and other v. BCC : 5 week GMF hearing.
Kulkarni v. Milton Keynes Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  IRLR 829 Louise obtained the initial HC injunction in this case.
Alitalia Airport Spa v. Akrif  ICR 813, a case about the Dispute Resolution Regulations.
Louise Chudleigh's practice has encompassed matters relating to the disciplining and dismissing of doctors, dentists, other health care professionals and the police for over 20 years.
Louise has frequently appeared in medical employment cases in the employment tribunal, in the High Court and on appeal, including in the Supreme Court in Chhabra v West London Mental Health NHS Trust. She regularly sits as a legal adviser to NHS disciplinary panels and also acts as an advocate in disciplinary hearings. Louise has appeared before the GMC and the HPC and other regulatory bodies, and has acted as a legal assessor for the British Psychological Society's Conduct and Fitness to Practice Committees.
Fynes v. St George's Hospital NHS Trust  EWHC 756 (QB),  All ER (D) 210 (Mar): HC decision concerning classification of disciplinary allegations as between conduct and health.
Chhabra v. West London Mental Health NHS Trust  IRLR 22: SC decision about injunctive relief in relation to disciplinary proceedings.
Re Dr C : legal adviser to the Trust's disciplinary panel which was considering whether to dismiss a consultant for having allegedly conducted an inappropriate examination of a patient.
Re Dr D : presented the management case before a Trust Panel at a capability hearing against a consultant.
Louise accepts instructions on a direct access basis.

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