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Timothy Adkin   Timothy Adkin
Date of: Call - 2004
Phone:   020 7831 0222  
Fax:   020 7831 2239  
Email:   clerks@42br.com  
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Summary Of Practice

Tim Adkin currently acts in most areas of chambers’ Civil work including employment, personal injury, commercial and contract and landlord and tenant.

In addition to his experience as a pupil in chambers and a junior tenant, Tim undertook a four month secondment to the employment department of a large firm of commercial solicitors, where he advised on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Tim regularly appears in Employment Tribunals, County Courts and the High Court.
Tim regularly advises on liability and quantum in personal injury cases and undertakes fast track and multi-track trials.

Employment law matters on which Tim has advised include TUPE, enforcement of restrictive covenants in employment contracts, surveillance of employees, whistle-blowing to statutory regulators, unfair dismissal, unlawful deductions and discrimination law covering age, disability, maternity leave, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation discrimination.

Before being called to the bar Tim worked for 5 years as a management consultant, advising corporate and financial clients on strategy and commercial due diligence in both London and New York.

 

Professional Memberships

Employment Law Bar Association
Personal Injury Bar Association

 

Selected Cases

Selected cases include:

· Appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal on the use of informant evidence and surveillance, new evidence discovered since trial, amendments to claim out of time and application of the (now repealed) statutory grievance procedures. [Maley v Royal Mail Group Ltd (2008), Smith v Veolia Environmental Service UK Plc (2008), Hussain v Mitie Security (2009)]

· Employment tribunal cases such as an 8 day public interest disclosure “whistle-blowing” case, and numerous multi-day cases dealing with religion/belief discrimination, race discrimination, sexual discrimination/harassment, disability discrimination, trade union detriment, cases of issue estoppel where claims started in an Employment Tribunal are pursued in the County Court and a sexual orientation case which attracted national media attention.

· Appeals to Circuit Judges and to the High Court.

· Anti-social behaviour injunctions and an action seeking an injunction against a local authority in respect of the exercise of its statutory duties.

· Hansen & others v Mayor of London and Greater London Authority (2007) - Tim represented a public interest group seeking to enforce the terms of a negotiated agreement with the then Mayor of London in relation to pigeon feeding in Trafalgar Square, London, a case which attracted national media interest. Whether such an agreement could have contractual force. Whether anonymous donors funding litigation brought in the public interest action had to be disclosed for purposes of costs.

 

Education

The College of Law, Store Street, London
2004 Bar Vocational Course (Commendation)
2003 Post-graduate Diploma of Law (PgDL) (Very Competent)
1997 Bristol University BSc (Hons) Economics & Politics

 

Other Information

Tim plays tennis and is a keen skier. 

Tim is a Trustee of 'Teach a Man to Fish', a charity which sponsors entrepreneurial projects in agricultural schools in the developing world.