Employment Advice
Our employment team consists of Terry Maylin and Aidan Squire who between them have over 60 years experience of Employment law work both for employers and employees and cover everything between simple employment advice to complex tribunal claims .
TM Law have extensive experience when it comes to helping assist you in relation to a dispute with your employer or if you are an employer, help resolve a dispute with your employee. We help employees and employers from many sectors including financial services, commerce and industry who come to us wanting to know where they stand. Our emphasis is in assisting to resolve disputes where possible rather than launching into employment litigation.
Our employment law solicitors advise on all aspects of employment contract law including unfair dismissal, redundancy, settlement agreements, discrimination claims and redundancy advice.
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Whetever your legal requirement reach out to us today and we’ll be happy to help where we can. Our quick enquiry form allows you to share some basic information with us to allow a personalised response, or you can simply view our contact details and get in touch with us however you choose.
What we do
- Advise on dismissals
- Advise on employment contracts including restrictive covenants
- Advise on discrimination claims
- Advise on bullying and harassment claims
Employment Tribunal Costs
Our pricing for bringing and defending claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal only and do not cover other claims such as discrimination claims and other tribunal claims
- Simple case: £2500-5000 (excluding VAT) This is based on 8-16 hours at £300+vat per hour
- Medium complexity case: £5000-10,000 (excluding VAT) This is based on 16-33 hours at £300+vat per hour
- High complexity case: £10,000-30,000 (excluding VAT) This is based on 33-100 hours at £300+vat per hour.
Factors that could make a case more complex:
- If it is necessary to make or defend applications to amend claims or to provide further information about an existing claim
- Defending claims that are brought by litigants in person
- Making or defending a costs application
- Complex preliminary issues such as whether the claimant is disabled (if this is not agreed by the parties)
- The number of witnesses and documents
- If it is an automatic unfair dismissal claim e.g. if you are dismissed after blowing the whistle on your employer
- Allegations of discrimination which are linked to the dismissal
There will be an additional charge for attending a Tribunal Hearing of £1200 per day (excluding VAT). Generally, we would allow 1-3 days depending on the complexity of your case. (Generally unless you ask us to we would not attend if counsel is instructed to deal with your matter).
Disbursements
Disbursements are costs related to your matter that are payable to third parties, such as court fees. We handle the payment of the disbursements on your behalf to ensure a smoother process.
Counsel’s fees estimated between £1500 to £3000 +vat per day (depending on experience of the advocate) for attending a Tribunal Hearing (including preparation)
Key stages
The fees set out above cover all of the work in relation to the following key stages of a claim:
- Taking your initial instructions, reviewing the papers and advising you on merits and likely compensation (this is likely to be revisited throughout the matter and subject to change)
- Entering into pre-claim conciliation where this is mandatory to explore whether a settlement can be reached;
- Preparing claim or response
- Reviewing and advising on claim or response from other party
- Exploring settlement and negotiating settlement throughout the process
- preparing or considering a schedule of loss
- Preparing for (and attending) a Preliminary Hearing
- Exchanging documents with the other party and agreeing a bundle of documents
- Taking witness statements, drafting statements and agreeing their content with witnesses
- preparing bundle of documents
- Reviewing and advising on the other party’s witness statements
- agreeing a list of issues, a chronology and/or cast list
- Preparation and attendance at Final Hearing, including instructions to Counsel
The stages set out above are an indication and if some of stages above are not required, the fee will be reduced. You may wish to handle the claim yourself and only have our advice in relation to some of the stages. This can also be arranged on your individual needs.
How long will my matter take?
The time that it takes from taking your initial instructions to the final resolution of your matter depends largely on the stage at which your case is resolved. If a settlement is reached during pre-claim conciliation, your case is likely to take 3-6 weeks. If your claim proceeds to a Final Hearing, your case is likely to take 52-100 -weeks. This is just an estimate and we will of course be able to give you a more accurate timescale once we have more information and as the matter progresses.
Thank you once again for all the invaluable help you have undertaken on behalf of clients I have referred to you in respect of amounts owed to HMRC and petitions for winding up.
I know that my clients have been greatly impressed and it’s fair to say that without your help they would be in serious trouble.
- Service(s): General, Debt Recovery
Great litigation service provided, would highly recommend to all!
- Service(s): General, Landlord Tennant
I had an amazing experience with Mr terry maylin , He helped me with some of my academic documents, I had hard time in finding a person to get this done, he helped me straight away, i definitely find him trustworthy, warm and helpful person. Thank you very for your kindness.
- Service(s): General
We have known Terry and TM Law for many years and highly recommend them to all our clients. Very professional, supportive and knowledgeable. Highly recommend Terry and all the team at TM Law.
- Service(s): Employment Law
I needed a document certified and no solicitors in Wickford that I tried for this simple activity would assist. Terry dealt with my request with the urgency it required. They are specialists but if I need them, they are first on my list and ill tell others as well. They could see beyond the minor inconvenience that I appeared to be to other solicitors who displayed a shockingly poor service. Thanks Terry!
- Service(s): General
Excellent service from Aidan Squire at TM-Law preparing a shareholders agreement and contract of employment for my Co. Recommend highly based on my interactions.
- Service(s): General
Excellent experience with Terry at TM Law. Got straight to the job and very quickly when i was struggling to find someone for a letter for the DVSA. Even when i was asked to change someone Terry, again, done this for me straight away without hesitation. I will continue to use Terry and TM Law for anything i may need in the future. Thank you again from us all at The Bike Shed Motorcycles Colchester. We look forward to seeing you with your bike 🙂
- Service(s): General
From start to finish of the process, Terry Maylin at TM LAW was nothing but smooth and easy to understand.
He used simple laymans terms throughout and really said how it was.
Not only was he professional and got the job done with great results, he is also a lovely approachable solicitor to speak with i cant thank him enough!
- Service(s): Employment Law
Terry is a very knowledgeable professional, and recently provided me with invaluable information regarding claiming for a car accident personal injury claim – would highly recommend
- Service(s): General, Debt Recovery
Aidan Squire was enormously helpful in guiding me through a PIP at my former place of employment. His advice gave me the confidence to deal with management in a professional, and calm manner. I couldn’t recommend his services enough.
- Service(s): Employment Law
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