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Birmingham, United Kingdom

Currently focusing on Employment and Commercial law. Employment: Acting for both Claimants and Respondents in advising and representing clients in preliminary and final hearings. Practice includes experience in public sector respondent work. Areas of experience include:Race and disability discriminationWhistleblowingTUPE disputesHoliday payWorking timeUnfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal claimsRecent Employment experience includes:Appearing unled in the Court of Appeal to successfully defeat an appeal from Senior CounselWinning a high-value pregnancy discrimination claim against partners of a large firm of solicitorsSuccessfully responded to an appeal in the EAT (Employment Appeal Tribunal)Commercial: Acting for companies, landlords and private individuals in giving advice and representation on commercial contractual disputes and insolvency and winding up petitions. Experience includes: Contesting and winding up petitions in the Rolls BuildingPossession claimsContractual disputesAdvising on procedure in bankruptcy

London, Uk

Responsible for the strategic and creative direction of the Journal of General Management, the academic management journal published by The Braybrooke Press (est. 1970).Roles have included: selection of academic articles for publishing; editing, proof-reading and preparing the journal for publication; management of accounts, budgets and financial reporting; recruitment and management of a team of over 20 people; developing the journal to include literary academic reviews and expansion of the business.

Paris Area, France

Research, analysis and reporting on the activities of the OECD - one of the world's largest think tanks on economic and development policy; translation of texts, documents, and dossiers; editing, writing and proof-reading of speeches, dossiers and texts; networking and liaising between different departments, committees and organisations of the OECD.

Windhoek, Namibia

The Legal Assistance Centre is a public interest law firm specialising in human rights cases. Its broad goal is to foster a human rights culture in Namibia.Roles included: development of an advocacy and communications strategy for the LAC; design and delivery of training for NGO's throughout Namiba around advocacy and communications; undertaking research on male involvement in Community and Home-Based Care in Namibia, and co-authoring the subsequent article; developing communications strategies for NGO's in Namibia and assisting in the installation and development of those strategies such as web-based technology; management of budgets, financial reporting and applying for funding; networking and liaising between different health organisations; supporting the design and delivery of international VSO conferences. Achievements include: Creation of a comic to communicate to community health volunteers information about their rights: published and translated into four languages by VSO.Publication of the co-authored article, 'They Have That Heart: Male Involvement in Community and Home-Based Care,' July 2012Trained over 300 NGO workers in advocacy and communications to enable them to voice their opinions and create a human-rights based culture in Namibia: tangible results seen from the process, with groups lobbying government on issues ranging from domestic violence to HIV/AIDS.Lobbied the Namibian government directly on behalf of Namibian Home-Based Care volunteers, resulting in government tabling a motion to discuss better implementation of the policies.

Vienna, Austria

Research, analysis and reporting on the activities of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Seminar leader and supervisor to undergraduate students of English and Italian.

Bar Professional Training Course, Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution Case Preparation and Analysis Civil Advocacy Civil Litigation, Civil Evidence and Remedies Conference.

Gdl, Law

Phd, European Studies

Mphil, European Literature

Ba, English

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