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Highly experienced in employment, property and trusts law, Amy appears in courts and tribunals and the High Court, as well as at appellate level in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal. She advises and acts for the full spectrum of claimants and respondents/defendants. Her clients range from individuals to local authorities, local government bodies, private companies, charities, a wide variety of educational bodies, police constabularies as well as national chains and statutory corporations.
Amy is an adjudicator for airline disputes involving claims for the delay and cancellation of flights, discrimination of persons of restricted mobility, denial of boarding, lost luggage and other financial claims governed by Regulation (EC) No 261/2004, the Montreal Convention 1999 and Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006.
Amy gives in-house talks and seminars on a breadth of topics and is a trained mediator. She is a member of the Gibraltar Bar.
Amy acts for and advises both claimants and respondents across diverse spheres of work. Respondent clients have included multi-nationals, local government, schools, universities and colleagues, banks and financial institutions, limited companies, charities and associations and statutory corporations.
Amy appears regularly in tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal and has appeared in the Court of Appeal. She covers a broad spectrum of employment work, including discrimination based on sex and maternity, age, disability, race, nationality, and religion and belief, ordinary and automatic unfair dismissal, redundancy, employment status, TUPE, equal pay, whistle-blowing, health & safety, breach of contract, stress at work, working time regulations, national minimum wage claims, holiday pay and trade union disputes. Her practice includes employment actions in the civil courts, where she has advised variously on restraint of trade and restrictive covenant proceedings and the wrongful dismissal of senior executives. She has also advised/represented clients in relation to employment disputes in Gibraltar and in Northern Ireland.
Amy has extensive experience of representing clients in both judicial and private mediations.
She is experienced at handling all stages of employment disputes, including case management and preliminary hearings to full merits hearings, remedy hearings, reconsiderations and appeals.
She assists with ELAAS work in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Amy recently secured a finding of harassment on behalf of a Crown prosecutor suffering from PTSD and is also acting for a company in a long-running dispute faced with claims of race discrimination and harassment. She obtained costs against a manager who had been dismissed by a pub chain for recruiting bar staff without following the proper procedures. In terms of her property work, she advised recently on the viability of obtaining relief against forfeiture of an apartment block at the centre of a proposed construction project in Gibraltar and, in the UK, on the enforceability of land options affecting neighbouring land subject to an easement.
The Administrative Court has cast a fresh eye on the circumstances in which a renewed homelessness application made under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 amounts to a new application.
10th November 2021 Read moreA fresh opportunity for the High Court to consider the effect of a transfer in a fraudulent property transaction occurred in Victus Estates Limited & Others v Munroe & Others [2021] EWHC 2411.
7th September 2021 Read more
