Cripps Harries Hall

Rhona Darbyshire is a solicitor in the employment team. She advises both employers (including companies, charities and other not for profit organisations) and senior employees on all aspects of employment law within the workplace. Rhona is experienced in conducting cases in the Employment Tribunals for both employers and employees.

Expertise

• Disputes (employment)
• Employment termination
• Compromise agreements
• Employment contracts
• Consultancy agreements
• Redundancy
• Discrimination
• Employee handbooks
• Service contracts
• Employee benefits

Career

• Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2007
• Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2005

• 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 an overseas aid charity about its legal responsibilities when restructuring following the loss of external funding
• Advising several private schools about how to deal with complex sickness and underperformance issues relating to teaching staff
• Assisting a social housing charity through the employment aspects of a merger with another charity
• Acting for a charity in its successful defence of claims for compensation for unfair dismissal race and sex discrimination