Where work and the right to work meet.

Led by Chris Dias, this is the heart of our employment practice. Sponsor compliance in a redundancy exercise, right to work on a business transfer, the visa consequences of a dismissal or resignation, recruitment of international staff without breaching sponsor duties. We work with a network of boutique employment law firms, providing the immigration dimension their clients need, with the advantage of an employment law perspective on both. If you are an employment lawyer whose client has an immigration angle, this is the referral relationship we built the practice for.

For employees: independent advice on the terms and effect of a settlement agreement, which the law requires before you can validly sign, and negotiation where the offer undervalues your position or the drafting overreaches. For employers: drafting and negotiating agreements that actually conclude the matter. Where the employee is a visa holder, we advise on what the exit means for their status, an issue standard settlement advice routinely misses.

Led by Crystal Dias: advice and representation through disciplinary investigations, hearings and appeals, and grievances that have stopped being resolvable informally. Early, calm advice usually changes the outcome; we aim to get in before positions harden.

Crystal's specialism. An NMC referral threatens your registration, your career and, for sponsored nurses, your visa and your family's future in the UK at the same time. We defend the regulatory case and manage the immigration consequences together, because for an international nurse they cannot be separated. Much of this work comes from the Filipino nursing community we have served for years.

Advice on workplace disputes, unfair treatment and exits, with honest early assessment of your position and options. Employment claims run on strict and short time limits, so take advice as soon as a dispute looks serious rather than after it becomes one.