Roger Quickfall
Parklane Plowden
Barrister (England and Wales/N.I.)
Regions
- Yorkshire and Humberside
19 Westgate, Leeds, LS1 2RD, United Kingdom
01132285049
roger.quickfall [at] parklaneplowden.co.uk
https://www.parklaneplowden.co.uk/barristers/roger-quickfall
A specialist employment barrister with an industrial background. One of the youngest retail operations managers for TM Retail with a responsibility for 17 shops and over 100 staff and chairing internal disciplinary hearings.
• Unfair dismissal
• Discrimination
• Maternity
• Redundancy
• Employment status
• Collective Agreement and Trade Union disputes
• Unlawful deduction from wages and holiday pay claims
• Harassment and victimisation
• Direct Access – from Respondents
NOTABLE CASES
TUPE: Reg. 11 disclosure obligations: I successfully represented a schools Academy in a claim against a local education authority for a failure to inform the Academy about unresolved equal pay claims at a school prior to the transfer of the school from the local authority to the Academy.
KINGSTON UPON HULL CITY COUNCIL v (1) P SCHOFIELD (2) C MORRIS (3) J WEBSTER [2012] All ER (D) 342 (Nov) EAT
A complaint that an employer had wrongly evaluated an employee's job under a job evaluation scheme could not give rise to a claim for unlawful deductions from wages, since it was not a claim for a quantified or quantifiable sum
A v B & C - 4 week sex discrimination, sexual harassment and unfair dismissal case. Roger successfully represented the alleged perpetrator against whom all allegations were dismissed and in whose favour a maximum cost award was made. The case was reported in the local press. For more information click here.
Successfully brought an unfair dismissal claim on behalf of a pregnant ‘self-employed’ nurse
Roger had successfully defended a number of claims brought by disabled employees alleging a failure to make reasonable adjustments
Successfully defended a claim brought by 22 claimants in respect of breaches of a collective agreement
Successfully defended an unfair express dismissal claim. There were no witnesses at a meeting at which the Claimant either resigned or was dismissed. The tribunal found that the Claimant resigned.
LECTURES/SEMINARS
•Working time & NMWR issues for on-call workers
•Employment Status
•The Equality Act 2010
•The Agency Worker Regulations 2010
•The Rights of Agency Workers
• Unfair dismissal
• Discrimination
• Maternity
• Redundancy
• Employment status
• Collective Agreement and Trade Union disputes
• Unlawful deduction from wages and holiday pay claims
• Harassment and victimisation
• Direct Access – from Respondents
NOTABLE CASES
TUPE: Reg. 11 disclosure obligations: I successfully represented a schools Academy in a claim against a local education authority for a failure to inform the Academy about unresolved equal pay claims at a school prior to the transfer of the school from the local authority to the Academy.
KINGSTON UPON HULL CITY COUNCIL v (1) P SCHOFIELD (2) C MORRIS (3) J WEBSTER [2012] All ER (D) 342 (Nov) EAT
A complaint that an employer had wrongly evaluated an employee's job under a job evaluation scheme could not give rise to a claim for unlawful deductions from wages, since it was not a claim for a quantified or quantifiable sum
A v B & C - 4 week sex discrimination, sexual harassment and unfair dismissal case. Roger successfully represented the alleged perpetrator against whom all allegations were dismissed and in whose favour a maximum cost award was made. The case was reported in the local press. For more information click here.
Successfully brought an unfair dismissal claim on behalf of a pregnant ‘self-employed’ nurse
Roger had successfully defended a number of claims brought by disabled employees alleging a failure to make reasonable adjustments
Successfully defended a claim brought by 22 claimants in respect of breaches of a collective agreement
Successfully defended an unfair express dismissal claim. There were no witnesses at a meeting at which the Claimant either resigned or was dismissed. The tribunal found that the Claimant resigned.
LECTURES/SEMINARS
•Working time & NMWR issues for on-call workers
•Employment Status
•The Equality Act 2010
•The Agency Worker Regulations 2010
•The Rights of Agency Workers
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