Roderick Moore
Qualifications: LLB (Hons)
Called: 1993
Email: roderickmoore@colletonchambers.co.uk
General
Roderick offers specialist advice and representation in all aspects of Employment Law and Family Finance. He is also instructed in disciplinary hearings affecting professional people and sports men and women.
His clients value his friendliness, approachability and realism. His opponents fear his technical expertise, numeracy and robust advocacy.
He is consistently recommended in the Chambers & Partners Guide to the Legal Profession and consistently receives excellent feedback from clients, solicitors and judges. He was described as "superb" by a solicitor watching him in conference for the first time in February 2010.
Employment Law
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.
He 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 has been recommended for Employment Law in the Chambers & Partners Guide to the UK Legal Profession for 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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 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).
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
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).
Family Finance and Private Client Work
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, partnerships, bonus and share schemes.
Coming from a rural and farming background, his knowledge of agriculture, valuation of land, life stock and dead stock and single farm payments makes him many solicitors' first choice for advice and representation in disputes within farming families and marriages. He has considerable expertise in financial and property issues between cohabitees, whether such claims are brought under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, or under Schedule I of the Children Act 1989.
He also regularly advises and appears in Probate Claims, and claims brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
Disciplinary
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 referred to his "unique knowledge of the racing and bloodstock sector".
Other Chambers
Roderick is an Associate Member of Outer Temple Chambers, London.
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
Roderick is married to a barrister, and he and his wife live on Exmoor with their two sons and numerous animals. His few moments of spare time are spent indulging in county sports, going racing and sailing.