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Julie Bann

Julie Bann

Partner

020 7405 4600

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Julie supports both employers and individuals working in a wide range of sectors from individual and small charities to large multi-national companies. She particularly specialises in supporting charities and educational organisations.  Julie also sits as a part-time judge in England.

Julie’s role:

Julie provides advice to employers across a wide range of sectors but particularly specialises in advising clients from the public sector and the third sector. She has substantial experience of advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Skills and strengths:

Julie is particularly skilled at managing risks associated with employee disputes. She has built strong working relationships with HR teams  and regularly acts as a sounding board to advise on mitigating risks in internal employee disputes, restructures and pay reviews, TUPE disputes and complex employment litigation.

Julie has expertise in advising on all employment law-related issues from drafting and revising employment contracts and procedures to resolving internal disputes and managing Employment Tribunal claims.

Throughout, Julie’s advice, its clarity (verbal and written), her responsiveness and speed of delivery was of a consistently high quality. She was also brave, unafraid to posit radical solutions which, I believe – had bidders had an ounce of Julie’s courage and informed conviction – would have broken new ground in public procurement and set new best practice for public bodies to follow. She was also, by way of icing on the cake, a pleasure to work with.

I have been dealing Julie Bann and her employment law team from Sharpe Pritchard for the last two years. In relation to all instructions I have sent through to them, I have found them consistently quick to respond, thorough and accurate in advice given and straightforward to talk to. I have no hesitation in recommending such a reliable service.

Experts in their field, their advice is always professional, timely, contemporary, and above all practical. In partnership with the HR team, they have the ability to see through and provide sound guidance in even the most complex of employment law issues with confidence and professionalism.

  • Corporate Clients
  • Education Providers
  • Emergency Services
  • Health
  • Leisure
  • Local Government
  • Start up
  • Transport Sector
  • Employment
  • Mediation
  • Conducted a complex whistleblowing investigation in connection to a complaint against a Senior Director of religious discrimination.
  • Successfully representing a non-departmental government body against an unfair dismissal claim following a dismissal due to a breakdown in the employment relationship.
  • Successfully represented a client in a four- day sex discrimination Employment Tribunal including a successful defence against vicarious liability.
  • Appeal Panel member for a whistleblowing and discrimination appeal for a school, which involved interviewing 10 people, collating evidence and writing and extensive report.
  • Coordinating a global legal research project on employee absence and bonus entitlement. Liaising with lawyers across 18 countries, collating the responses in a summarised format.
  • Advising a unionised charity client on a staffing restructure which involved redundancies and a pay review.
  • Review and revising employment policies and procedures for a range of clients including a large further education college.
  • Drafting and/or revising contracts for employees, workers, consultants.

Recent update on managing the manifestation of beliefs in the workplace

22 August 2023

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has stepped in again in this controversial arena in this case and has ruled that “the freedom to manifest belief (religious or otherwise) and to express views relating to that belief are essential rights in any democracy”. This is another decision in the fraught tug of war between employees claiming they…

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