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Laura Prince

Called 2003
Laura Prince
Laura specialises in employment and discrimination law regularly appearing in employment tribunals for both applicants and respondents in cases involving unfair, constructive and wrongful dismissals, equal pay claims, unlawful deductions from wages, redundancy, TUPE transfers and all forms of discrimination. Laura also has experience of restraint of trade clauses in both the High Court and County Court.

Laura has extensive experience of equal pay claims and is currently representing claimants in numerous equal pay multiples including a multiple in Birmingham Employment Tribunal where Laura is representing over 1000 claimants.

Laura is often invited by organisations to lecture on employment law topics and has written a number of published articles. Academically she has a first class law degree from University College London and obtained prizes for academic achievement including the Herbert Smith Prize for Exceptional Merit (for achieving the highest mark in the UCL Public Law Exam).

Experience

Appellate Level Work

Laura’s Appellate level experience includes:-

  • Led by Thomas Linden QC in the case of Alemo-Herron v Parkwood Leisure in both the EAT ([2009] ICR 703) and Court of Appeal ([2010] ICR 793) and instructed to appear as junior counsel in this matter in the Supreme Court next year. The issue in this case is whether collective agreements reached after a TUPE transfer can bind the transferee.
  • Instructed to appear on behalf of the Respondent at the EAT in a disability discrimination claim which will involve consideration of the meaning of a “competency standard” in a claim against a qualifications body.
  • Instructed to appear at the EAT in a race discrimination claim concerning the scope of the defence of illegality under both domestic and community law.
  • Laura is also a member of the ELAAS Scheme.

Employment Tribunal Work
 
Laura’s Employment Tribunal experience includes:-

  • Extensive experience of multiple local government and NHS equal pay claims. Laura is currently instructed on behalf of the claimants in respect of numerous equal pay multiples and is representing over 1000 claimants in one multiple equal pay claim against a local authority in the Birmingham Employment Tribunal.
  • Instructed to represent 4 claimants in a 15 day like work and Genuine Material Factor hearing in November 2010 in the Reading Employment Tribunal.
  • Represented 10 Claimants in a 3 day TUPE transfer claim at the Reading Employment Tribunal.
  • Represented the Claimant in a 5 day Whistleblowing/Unfair dismissal claim at the Manchester employment tribunal (there was coverage of this case in the Evening Standard, the Guardian and local press).
  • Represented the Respondent in a 2 day Age Discrimination claim at the London Central Employment Tribunal. 
  • Represented the Respondent in a 3 day Unfair Dismissal claim where the Claimant claimed he had refused to follow a lawful management instruction for health and safety reasons.
  • Represented the Respondent in a claim of unlawful discipline against a Trade Union member.
  • Represented the Respondent in a claim for wasted costs application where the Respondent had issues proceedings on union instructions but not had sufficient time to get instructions from the claimants direct.
  • Represented 7 claimants in a race discrimination and unlawful deduction of wages claim at Southampton Employment Tribunal.

High Court and County Court Work
 
  • Laura has represented claimants at both the County Court and High Court in respect of Restraint of Trade clauses.
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