David Smedley

Partner - Head of Employment & Human Resources

David has over 18 years experience in all aspects of employment and industrial relations work. In addition, he deals with a wide range of high value breach of contract and restrictive covenant claims. With his team he resolves a wide range of contentious issues as well as becoming involved in strategic HR planning for clients in a non-contentious context.

David also deals with all aspects of education law including admissions and exclusions issues and claims for judicial review.

In a given case David will generally deal with all advocacy and is well known to ACAS and the Employment Tribunals. He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and the Industrial Society and regularly contributes to publications (both specialist and general). Guidelines for Tribunals to deal with discrimination claims were handed down in David Smedley’s case of Netto Foodstores v Tchoula.