Cripps Harries Hall

Camilla Beamish is a solicitor in the employment team.  She deals with the full range of employment issues including disciplinary and grievance procedures, discrimination and TUPE matters. She acts for both private clients and companies, charities and other not for profit organisations from many different sectors.

Expertise

• Disputes (employment)
• Employment contracts
• Employment termination
• Redundancy
• Compromise agreements
• Discrimination
• Service contracts
• Employee handbooks
• Consultancy agreements

Memberships

• Employment Lawyers Association

Career

• Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2012
• Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2007
• Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2005
• Paralegal, Slaughter and May, 2004

• Successfully assisting a professional services firm in its defence of a whistle blowing and unfair dismissal claim
• Acting in the successful defence of a claim for damages for breach of contract and compensation for unfair dismissal in excess of £500,000 made by a former director who had been dismissed for gross misconduct
• Acting for an international business in its successful defence of a sex discrimination claim in which the key issue was the alleged less favourable treatment of the claimant during pregnancy and maternity leave
• Supporting the UK subsidiary of an international electronics company on the closure of its UK operations and the redundancy of its employees
• Advising a national retailer about redundancies and redeployment following a decision to close its least profitable outlets
• Acting for the management team of an international company going into administration and advising about the TUPE issues arising out of a pre-pack sale