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Ian Pace

Ian Pace

Ian acts for a wide range of private and public sector clients and advises on all areas of employment and discrimination law. He has considerable experience in acting for NHS Trusts and healthcare clients generally and also advises employers in the education, retail and insurance sectors. He has a particular interest in whistleblowing and all areas of discrimination, including disability and age.

Ian regularly speaks at conferences and seminars and provides bespoke in-house training on a range of employment and equality issues.

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Ian acts for a wide range of private and public sector clients and advises on all areas of employment and discrimination law. He has considerable experience in acting for NHS Trusts and healthcare clients generally and also advises employers in the education, retail and insurance sectors. He has a particular interest in whistleblowing and all areas of discrimination, including disability and age.

Ian regularly speaks at conferences and seminars and provides bespoke in-house training on a range of employment and equality issues.

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Ben Daniel

Ben Daniel

Ben is head of service delivery for the employment, pensions and immigration team at Weightmans. Formerly a partner with Ford & Warren solicitors, Ben deals with all areas of employment law for a wide variety of clients in both public and private sectors.

Ben is an advocate, regularly appearing in multi-day Employment Tribunal Hearings, and also conducts the advocacy in appeal cases at the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

He has specialist knowledge from 20 years' experience in the transport sector, including road haulage, rail and bus passenger transport. He is particularly involved in the management of industrial disputes with clients across the transport sector. Ben also leads client management development seminars in the field of employee relations with the emphasis placed upon 'the right to manage'.

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Andrew Forrest

Andrew Forrest

Andrew is a Fellow of the CIPD and has a masters’ degree in Human resource management and industrial relations. His experience covers both the public and private sectors and includes: Tribunal advocacy, consulting and negotiating with trade unions, training, mediation, seminar presentations and advising on employment law. Andrew joined Weightmans in October 2010 from EEF (now Make UK) where he was the HR and legal leader for the Midlands.

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Christopher Graham

Christopher Graham

Chris is our Regional Office Head in Newcastle upon Tyne and Lead Partner in our employment law team.

He has over 25 years’ experience advising commercial and public sector organisations on all aspects of employment law. He has a very broad range of experience, involving almost all applications before the Employment Tribunal and particular expertise in business protection, unlawful discrimination, outsourcing (TUPE) and industrial action.

Chris also has substantial experience protecting businesses from unlawful competition, misuse of confidential information/database recovery and insider fraud. He runs actions for injunctive relief and has a particular interest in technology, extending to protection from cyber-threats. He is experienced in securing Freezing Orders and contempt applications, as well as directors’ duties more generally. Chris has developed a significant practice involving partnership as well as shareholder disputes.

As Lead Partner, Chris manages the relationships with number of our significant clients and, as Regional Office Head, has responsibility for local engagement, diversity and CSR.

In 2022/23, our Newcastle office won Large Law Firm of the Year in the Northern Law awards and Chris won Lawyer of the Year.

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