12KBW London Employment Seminar

David Green

David is a leading personal injury and employment junior. He is the head of Chambers’ employment team.

"He is really impressive - smart and efficient" (Chambers & Partners (personal injury: industrial disease), 2025).

“David is simply outstanding” (Chambers & Partners (employment), 2025)

David is ranked as a leading junior for both personal injury and employment law, in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500.

David is the head of the 12KBW employment team. He appears regularly in the Employment Tribunal and the EAT in every kind of statutory employment case.

Cases include:

Minis Childcare Ltd v Hilton-Webb [2024] EAT 108: successful appeal concerning the relationship between indirect discrimination and the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.

Barry v Ministry of Defence [2023] EWHC 459 (KB): military noise-induced hearing loss case with widespread implications for the quantum of earnings-related damages for disabled claimants.

Abbott v Ministry of Defence [2022] EWHC 1807 (QB): junior counsel for nearly 3,500 claimants for noise-induced hearing loss and/or tinnitus brought against the MOD.

Wokingham Borough Council v Arshad [2022] EWHC 2419 (KB): successful appeal on behalf of a local authority against claim for psychiatric damage, brought by a taxi driver after a mistake in the taxi licensing process.

Hollie Patterson

Hollie’s principal areas of practice are employment and discrimination. She has been instructed in various high value, high profile and complex trials, and is in demand not only for her ability to obtain excellent outcomes, but also for her approachable and reassuring manner with clients.

Hollie is also an experienced CEDR accredited mediator. The focus of her mediation practice is employment and workplace disputes.

Hollie acts for both employers and employees. She has worked with a range of clients from national corporations and NHS trusts to small businesses and private individuals. She has specialist experience in claims involving public sector organisations and is well aware of the challenges, both legal and practical, such claims pose.

Simon John

Simon is an established personal injury practitioner and a leading junior in employment law.

“Simon explores the issues and all sides of a case in an extremely thorough and detailed manner and leaves no stone unturned. Both Simon’s oral and written arguments are clear, logical, coherent and persuasive”

Legal 500, 2026

Simon is ranked as a leading junior in employment law in the Legal 500.

He appears regularly in the Employment Tribunal and the EAT in every kind of statutory employment case and has a growing disciplinary practice especially in the education sector.

Cases include:

Brian Gourlay v West Dunbartonshire CC [2025] EAT 29 – Simon represented the Claimant in an important case about the correct approach to assessing causation in compensatory loss in the tribunal, in the context of psychiatric injury-causing discrimination, resulting in a +£750k award.

McMahon v AXA ICAS ltd [2025] EAT 8 – a significant employment case about whether a failure to pay PHI payments post employment termination could be run as an unlawful deductions claim, as an exception to the Delaney v Staples principle. Recently the subject of judgment in the Court of Sessions.

Environment Agency v Rowan [2008] EAT – a prominent case in which the EAT gave guidance on the significance of identifying PCPs in reasonable adjustment claims.