Jonathan practises in employment and business law.  He has a record of success in very high profile and high value cases. Specialisms include shared parental leave, doctors’ regulatory work, police pay claims and discrimination work, restrictive covenants, conspiracy and the economic torts, negligent reference claims, bonus and pay claims and injunctions to prevent dismissal. 

He recently successfully represented the Chief Constable in the well-publicised appeal case dealing with shared parental leave Hextall v the Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police [2019] IRLR 695, CA and most recently he has been instructed on two high profile appeals: an appeal from the High Court group action by royal and ministerial bodyguards in Prior and Fielding v the Metropolitan Police [2021] EWHC 2672 (QB) and on behalf of the Spanish Embassy in an appeal to the EAT which should establish the ambit of diplomatic and state immunity in relation to non-domestic workers following the recent Supreme Court decisions in Benkharbocuhe, Reyes v Al Maliki and Basfar v Wong.