Niall joined Edwards & Company in April 2022, leaving another Commercial Law Firm in Belfast, where I practiced Employment law for 14 years. Since qualifying as a solicitor in September 2008, Niall has been advising both employees and employers (both public, private and third sector organisations) in contentious and non-contentious areas of Employment law.
He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Group and a member of the Steering Committee of the Employment Lawyers Association, where he represents the needs of my fellow practitioners.
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For discrimination claims in the Industrial Tribunal in Northern Ireland, the remedy is Injury to Feelings. Assessing the extent of Injury to Feelings is not a straightforward task and one that often requires an assessment of medical information/evidence by a Tribunal.
In recent years however, there has been an increasing trend of discrimination claims being accompanied with a Personal Injury claim.
Personal injury in the Tribunal context refers to psychiatric injury, including conditions such as depression, anxiety disorders, or the exacerbation of an existing psychiatric condition, incurred because of the impact of the discrimination. It is distinct from Injury to Feelings remedy. The Tribunal has recognised the difficulty in distinguishing where injury to feelings stops and psychiatric injury begins. The
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