Ingrid McGhee
Ingrid is very much a trusted and go-to legal advisor. She is a key member of the employment, pensions and immigration team at Weightmans, providing both employment law and business immigration law support and advice to clients.
Ingrid is pragmatic, personable and solutions-focused. She has significant experience in the legal profession and truly focusses on what her clients' needs and objectives are. She is also very driven in building long standing relationships with clients and continues to work across many sectors.
Employment
Ingrid covers all areas of non-contentious employment matters and has particular experience in redundancies, restructuring/reorganisation, senior executive/management disputes and employment/TUPE support to corporate and real estate transactions. She has significant sector experience within retail and hospitality, construction, transport and logistics and owner managed business/SMEs.
She conducts her own advocacy and manages tribunal claims ranging from areas of unfair dismissal, protected disclosures, disability discrimination, redundancy and re-organisations, sex discrimination, TUPE and wasted costs.
Ingrid is also a key member of Weightmans' HR Rely team – offering price certainty and employment law solutions for our clients.
Ingrid also has previous experience in legal sales and growth strategy, training and supervision of employment colleagues and the development of cross-selling opportunities
Business immigration
Ingrid is experienced in both employment law and immigration law, allowing for seamless advice across both disciplines.
Her immigration expertise extends to assisting with compliance, policy drafting and implementation and strategy and the prevention of illegal working. She also has experience in providing global immigration advice and support to a variety of sectors including retail, transport, hospitality, education and construction.
Recent business immigration work highlights
- Advising higher education authority in respect of new points based system and assisting with policy implementation and strategy
- Advising FTSE 100 company in respect of compliance duties and immigration/discrimination considerations within recruitment practices
- Advising construction sector in respect of immigration rules and compliance
- Supporting transport and logistical businesses with compliance and advising in respect of immigration rules and the prevention of illegal working
- Advising further education authority in respect of sponsorship duties and application process
Memberships
- Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
- Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA).
Biography
Ingrid is very much a trusted and go-to legal advisor. She is a key member of the employment, pensions and immigration team at Weightmans, providing both employment law and business immigration law support and advice to clients.
Ingrid is pragmatic, personable and solutions-focused. She has significant experience in the legal profession and truly focusses on what her clients' needs and objectives are. She is also very driven in building long standing relationships with clients and continues to work across many sectors.
Employment
Ingrid covers all areas of non-contentious employment matters and has particular experience in redundancies, restructuring/reorganisation, senior executive/management disputes and employment/TUPE support to corporate and real estate transactions. She has significant sector experience within retail and hospitality, construction, transport and logistics and owner managed business/SMEs.
She conducts her own advocacy and manages tribunal claims ranging from areas of unfair dismissal, protected disclosures, disability discrimination, redundancy and re-organisations, sex discrimination, TUPE and wasted costs.
Ingrid is also a key member of Weightmans' HR Rely team – offering price certainty and employment law solutions for our clients.
Ingrid also has previous experience in legal sales and growth strategy, training and supervision of employment colleagues and the development of cross-selling opportunities
Business immigration
Ingrid is experienced in both employment law and immigration law, allowing for seamless advice across both disciplines.
Her immigration expertise extends to assisting with compliance, policy drafting and implementation and strategy and the prevention of illegal working. She also has experience in providing global immigration advice and support to a variety of sectors including retail, transport, hospitality, education and construction.
Recent business immigration work highlights
- Advising higher education authority in respect of new points based system and assisting with policy implementation and strategy
- Advising FTSE 100 company in respect of compliance duties and immigration/discrimination considerations within recruitment practices
- Advising construction sector in respect of immigration rules and compliance
- Supporting transport and logistical businesses with compliance and advising in respect of immigration rules and the prevention of illegal working
- Advising further education authority in respect of sponsorship duties and application process
Memberships
- Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
- Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA).
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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'.
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.
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.