Joanna Chatterton
Partner
telephone: +44 (0) 207 614 2617
fax: +44 (0) 207 614 1417
email: jkchatterton@foxwilliams.com
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Joanna is a Partner in the employment department. She undertakes a wide range of both contentious and non contentious work including advising on employment contracts and handbooks, TUPE, whistleblowing, handling redundancies and other dismissals and dealing with discrimination allegations. She has developed a particular interest in supporting human resources professionals in dealing with complex employee issues often involving sensitive reputational concerns. She has strong connections with a large number of senior executives whom she has advised on job moves, handling grievances and bringing tribunal claims and the potential constraints imposed by restrictive covenants. She has experience in pursuing and defending claims for both employers and employees in the Employment Tribunal and High Court.
Many of Joanna's client's are in the financial services, banking, professional services and insurance sectors however she is also a member of the firm's fashionlaw and healthcare teams.
Joanna oversees www.hrlaw.co.uk (an invaluable online information source for HR Professionals and in-house counsel). She has been quoted in the press on topical employment issues, she has lectured widely and provides practical training on a wide variety of topics TUPE and outsourcing, managing diversity in the workplace and discrimination for fashion clients. She has also written articles on a wide range of employment law topics.
Joanna qualified in March 1997 having trained with Herbert Smith. She joined Fox Williams in 1998, becoming a partner in 2006. She is listed in The Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession directory, which notes her “excellent advice and support based on a pragmatic business approach” as “One to Watch” in the field of employment law. Chambers also says that Joanna is well known for her senior executive and employer representation experience. She is particularly respected for her expertise in discrimination matters.
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