BARRISTERS
ROBERT C D REES B.A., LL.B., F.C.I.ARB BARRISTER
Called to the Bar: 1978
Areas of Practice
- Employment - experienced in conduct dismissals, all general aspects of unfair dismissal, and race and sex discrimination cases; handled several RAF pregnancy dismissal cases. Once adduced the old truck acts to win an unfair dismissal case for a shop assistant: Riley v Joseph Frisby Ltd [1982] IRLR 479. Involved in the growing field of disability discrimination: several ET cases and one EAT case so far.
- Compromise Agreements
- Civil.
- Personal injury - substantial experience in assessing quantum of damages), contract, general tort including professional negligence. Housing; very recent experience in disrepair cases.
- Family - experienced in ancillary relief cases, injunctions, contact and residence hearings; care cases (acting mainly for parents and relatives).
- School Appeals
Associations
Robert Rees has his own specialist employment law website.
Recent Cases
- R (W) v Leicestershire CC (QBD) [2003] 2 FLR 185 (removal of children from foster parent intending to apply for adoption
Barrister
