John is an employment Partner at Spencer West as well as being Visiting Professor of Law at Leeds University Business School and serving on the editorial board of ELA Briefing, the journal of the Employment Lawyers Association. He was previously Head of Employment at Pinsent Masons.
John is one of the UK's leading employment lawyers with a national and international reputation. He is the country's leading expert on TUPE and is involved in a wide range of TUPE related matters, including service provision change, mergers and acquisitions, and public sector and third sector transfers.
He has been variously described as “the King of TUPE” and the “TUPE guru”. He is an expert in redundancies and restructuring and also provides advice to senior executives on termination of employment.
He is also:
- the author of Business Transfers and Employee Rights, the leading work on TUPE. First published in 1987, it is a loose-leaf encyclopedia, known affectionately as the “purple book”, and is subscribed to by all major law libraries and law firms and by the Bar
- the author of Redundancy: The Law and Practice, the leading work on redundancy law
- an editor of Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law, commonly known as the practitioner’s “bible” and regularly cited in Court.
Regulation 4 of TUPE transfers to a transferee all rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with a transferring employee's contract of employment. In Bernadone v Pall Mall Services Group Limited [2001] ICR 197 the Court of Appeal confirmed that a liability in connection with the employment contract included liability for the tort of negligence, that is to say for personal injury. This was illustrated in the recent GM High Court case of Baker v (1) British Gas Services (Commercial) Limited (2) J&L Electrics (Lye) Limited 2017 EWHC 2302. Mr Baker was an electrical engineer working for British Gas. In 2012 he was sent to a client's premises to do electrical repair work. Whilst working with a
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