Graham Watson
Date of Call 1996
Inn of Court Lincoln's
email grahamwatson@colletonchambers.co.uk
Profile
Graham is a specialist employment, disciplinary and personal injury lawyer. Graham has experience in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. He appears regularly in employment tribunals throughout the UK, and also acts in the EAT and High Court.
Graham has also been developing a specialty in the field of ancillary relief.
What others say
"Graham is able to easily grasp complex issues and translate them for the
client; his client care is beyond reproach"
Legal 500, 2007
Advice for Employers
Employers can contact Graham direct for advice here.
Areas of Practice
Employment
- Unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal/breach of contract claims
- Race, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Disability and Religious discrimination disputes (including victimisation)
- Equal pay
- Whistleblowing
- Atypical Workers
- Restrictive Covenants and Confidentiality
- Redundancy and TUPE
- Working Time and Family Friendly working
- Boardroom disputes and severance claims
- Pensions and Employee Benefits
- Acted in claims under the Commercial Agents Regulations 1993
- Advised Professional Golfers Association National Disciplinary Committee on disciplinary proceedings between 2000-03.
- Appeared in disputes involving Pakistani Cricket Board, CricInfo, British Motocross GP, Bristol Rugby Club and Cardiff Rugby Club.
Personal Injury
Acted and advised in:
- RTA claims (with an additional specialism in Low Velocity Impact and Fraudulent claims)
- Workplace accidents
- Occupiers' Liability
- Psychiatric Injury & Stress at Work
- Industrial disease
- Defective Products
- Fatal accidents
- Multi-Party litigation, including: Guards and Shunters v BRB & others - acted on behalf of 1000 claimants in UK's largest industrial deafness class-action
- Rail Accident, including appearing as Junior Counsel to the Joint Railway Unions in the Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry (Parts I & II)
- Previously employed as a research assistant in the fields of personal injury, defective products and employment law (Old Square Chambers)
Seminars
Quarterly seminar programme for solicitors
Presentations to the ELA
Seminars to businesses
London Door Tenancy
Graham also practises from Outer Temple Chambers, London
Publications/Articles
- Working on Sundays: Copsey v WWB Devon Clays, Journal of Ecclesiastical Law, 2006
- Prison Officers and the Right to Strike, Institute of Employment Rights, 1998
- The Hedgerow Act 1997, Rights of Way Law Review, 1997
Memberships
ELBA, PIBA