Roderick Moore
Qualifications: LLB (Hons)
Called: 1993
Email: roderickmoore@colletonchambers.co.uk
Career
Roderick is a specialist practitioner in all aspects of contentious employment and discrimination law and, with his colleague Graham Watson, leads the Colleton Chambers Employment Group.
Roderick has conducted numerous cases for Claimants and Respondents in employment tribunals throughout the UK, and has also appeared many times in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. Although now based in the South West, he maintains a national profile and regularly appears in London, the Midlands and the North. He is recommended for Employment Law in the Chambers & Partners Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2008. He is known for both his technical expertise and his robust advocacy.
His reported cases include:
- Cerberus v Rowley [2001] IRLR 160
- Miller Bros v Johnston [2002] IRLR 386
- Dunnachie v Kingston upon Hull City Council
- Weir Vales and Control UK v Armitage [2004] ICR 371
Roderick is on the panel of approved Counsel held by both the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
As well as work within the Employment Tribunal’s jurisdiction, Roderick has considerable experience of High Court employment work, including large bonus claims. He also has a wealth of experience in employment related personal injury work, and in particular stress at work claims. He has conducted many trials in the County and High Courts, and has appeared in such matters in the Court of Appeal. He represented the successful Claimant Tracy Daw in both her trial before Goldring J (Daw v Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd [2006] EWHC 1097) and in the appeal before the Court of Appeal (Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd [2007] ICR 1318).
Ancillary Relief
Roderick is a very experienced ancillary relief practitioner, and regularly undertakes high value work, often involving farms or having particular complexities that draw on his knowledge of employment and commercial law, for example insolvency, companies, bonus and share schemes.
Crime/Regulatory/Disciplinary
Roderick accepts instructions in all aspects of Regulatory Crime, in particular health and safety litigation, both criminal and civil, and especially those with an employment background.
Roderick has a particular interest in disciplinary work, both for professional and sports men and women. He is an avid racing fan, and is able to put his considerable knowledge to good effect in racing work. The Chambers and Partners Guide 2008 refers to his “unique knowledge of the racing and bloodstock sector”.
Other Chambers
Roderick is an Associate Member of Outer Temple Chambers, London.
Commercial and Business
- Asset Recovery
- Contract
- Directors duties
- Insolvency
- Mediation
- Partnership disputes
- Personal insolvency
- Proceeds of crime
- Sports and media
Crime and Extradition
- Confiscation
- Corporate manslaughter
- Criminal Inquiries
- Extradition
- Health & safety issues
- Human Rights
- Immigration
- Legal Professional privilege
- Money laundering
- Murder
- Proceeds of Crime Act litigation
- Prosecution and Defence in the Crown Courts
- Sentencing appeal
- Serious and complex fraud
- Serious sexual offences
Employment and Pensions
- Boardroom disputes & severance claims
- Collective employment issues (trade unions)
- Constructive, unfair and wrongful dismissal
- Discrimination (disability, sex and race)
- Employee rights on transfer of undertakings
- Equal pay
- European employment directives
- Outsourcing
- Parental leave
- Pension schemes & insolvency
- Service agreements / contracts of employment
- Trustees and professional advisers litigation
- TUPE
- Working time issues
Personal Injury
- Health & safety at work
- Industrial diseases
- Psychiatric Injury
- Psychological injuries
- Stress claims
Discipline and Regulatory
- General Dental Council
- General Medical Council
- Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
- Transport
Publications
Roderick has published numerous articles in the employment sphere, in particular in the Solicitors Journal (many on aspects of disability discrimination and stress at work claims), and also in the Employment Lawyers’ Association Briefing and the Employment Lawyer.
Interests
Racing and Sailing.