HR Guidelines on ‘Meddling in Litigation’
Published on: 26/06/2017
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Gareth Walls Partner & Head of Employment and Incentives Group, A&L Goodbody
Gareth Walls Partner & Head of Employment and Incentives Group, A&L Goodbody
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Gareth Walls is a Partner and Head of the A&L Goodbody's Employment group in Belfast. Gareth represents a number of local, national and international brands in business support, strategic workforce planning and high-profile tribunal matters. He also has significant experience advising stakeholders on complex redundancy, re-structuring and TUPE issues. Gareth is an accomplished commercial litigator with particular emphasis on procurement challenges and injunctive relief in the Employment context, as well as being a sought-after speaker on Employment issues in Northern Ireland.

Gareth Walls, Partner at A&L Goodbody, focuses on three cases which highlight the risks faced by employers when HR practitioners and in-house lawyers meddle in the litigation process through, for example, inferences of culpability when dealing with disciplinary matters, improperly influencing the outcome of workplace investigations, and failure to focus on contractual process and application of the law.

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