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Education legal insights




You will find all our people to be informed, enthusiastic and genuinely committed to your organisation. We are specialists for a reason: education is an area that we are passionate about.
Here are a selection of our current contributors.
Nicola Bennison leads the national student issues team in the education group. Nicola has a dual specialism in student issues and employment law with a particular focus on equality and diversity. She is a regular speaker at conferences for a range of organisations as well as a regularly providing in-house training on student and HR issues.
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Chris Mordue is a partner in our Human Resources Practice Group, advising in employment to our Education sector clients, particularly universities. Chris' work includes complex disputes and tribunal cases, industrial relations issues, TUPE, redundancy and organisational change, senior level terminations, internationalisation, equality and diversity matters and academic freedom issues. Chris is an experienced employment tribunal advocate, having represented employers at numerous tribunal hearings since qualifying as a solicitor in 1993. His tribunal work typically includes the defence of claims for unfair and wrongful dismissal, but typically also claims involving complaints of discrimination and whistleblowing. |
Robert is an experienced advocate and negotiator. He regularly delivers training and thought leadership events for education clients and sector bodies, including UCEA, UHR, AoC and the Sixth Form Colleges' Association. |
Ben also conducts his own advocacy in Employment Tribunals. Recent cases have included discrimination, whistleblowing, claims under the fixed term employees and part time workers legislation and under the Working Time Regulations. |
Alison Oldfield is a partner in Eversheds Litigation and Dispute Management Group. She is experienced in handling all types of property disputes acting for a diverse range of national and international clients spanning both the public and private sector. She also leads the dispute resolution team in the education group, advising education institutions across the academies, further and higher education sectors on a wide range of contentious and risk management issues particularly in relation to contractual and property disputes and judicial review proceedings. |
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