Cripps Harries Hall

Gavin Tyler has over 25 years' experience of contentious matters and advises on all areas of employment law and related people issues. His clients include a wide range of corporates, charities and other not-for-profit organisations. He also acts for City executives and directors on both recruitment and exit.

Expertise

• Disputes (employment)
• Redundancy
• Restrictive covenants
• Compromise agreements
• Confidential information
• Contractual claims
• Dismissal
• Employment contracts
• Employment termination
• Professional consultants' appointments

Career

• Partner, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 1990
• Associate, Cripps Harries Hall & Co, 1988
• Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall & Co, 1986
• Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall & Co, 1984

• Successfully assisting a professional services firm in its defence of a whistle blowing and unfair dismissal claim
• Acting in the successful defence of a claim for damages for breach of contract and compensation for unfair dismissal in excess of £500,000 made by a former director who had been dismissed for gross misconduct
• Acting for an international business in its successful defence of a sex discrimination claim in which the key issue was the alleged less favourable treatment of the claimant during pregnancy and maternity leave
• Supporting the UK subsidiary of an international electronics company on the closure of its UK operations and the redundancy of its employees
• Advising a national retailer about redundancies and redeployment following a decision to close its least profitable outlets
• Acting for the management team of an international company going into administration and advising about the TUPE issues arising out of a pre-pack sale
• Advising a senior employee on the terms in his contract relating to notice and restrictive covenants and how he could manage his exit
• Successfully securing a substantial redundancy payment for an employee whose public sector employer was maintaining that she was not entitled to any payment since they had offered her suitable alternative employment
• Advising an employee on long term sick leave about his grievance against his employer arising from their failure to properly administer his PHI entitlement