With a wealth of experience 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 defendants/respondents. Her clients range from individuals to local authorities, private companies, charities, police constabularies as well as national chains and statutory corporations, and include Transport for London, Network Rail, the City of London Police and Metropolitan Police.
Amy is an adjudicator for airline disputes involving claims for the delay and cancellation of flights, denial of boarding, downgrading and other financial claims governed by Regulation (EC) No 261/2004, delay and lost, stolen or damaged luggage governed by the Montreal Convention 1999 as well as claims against both airlines and airports from persons of restricted mobility under 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, banks and financial institutions, limited companies, charities and associations, the Metropolitan and City of London police and Network Rail.
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, unfair dismissal, redundancy, TUPE, equal pay, whistle-blowing, health & safety, breach of contract, stress at work, working time regulations and trade union disputes. Her practice includes employment actions in the civil courts, where she has advised variously on restraint of trade 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.
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.