Angharad Davies

synopsis

Angharad has extensive experience of employment law and is regularly instructed in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

She acts for both employers and employees and has particular experience in unfair and wrongful dismissals, transfer of undertakings, redundancy and discrimination cases.

She is also experienced in the following areas: trade unions, working time, Equality Act 2010, deductions from wages and holiday pay, bonus claims and restrictive covenants.

Angharad has advised and pleaded in the full range of personal injury work including road traffic, industrial disease, employers' liability, public liability, highways and occupiers' liability cases.

She appears in interim and final hearings in multi and fast track cases, as well as related hearings such as CRU benefits appeals, injunctions, criminal injuries compensation appeals and Coroners’ inquests.

She is also experienced in the following areas contract, negligence, nuisance, trespass, sale and supply of goods, breach of statutory duties, property disputes and boundary disputes.

She has experience of the full range of costs issues in civil litigation and regularly undertakes detailed costs assessments.

Angharad defends and prosecutes, appearing regularly in the Crown, Magistrates, and Youth Courts. She is regularly instructed and has successfully defended in a number of Crown Court trials involving offences of dishonesty, serious violence and possession with intent to supply Class B drugs. She is instructed by defence solicitors on both legally-aided and privately-funded matters. Her defence experience ranges from cross-examining young witnesses via video-link to dealing with post-trial contempt of court proceedings. Her prosecution work includes instructions from the CPS, in addition to local councils and the National Probation Service. She has considerable experience in undertaking large-scale PII reviews.

Angharad is regularly instructed by specialist road traffic law solicitors and represents individuals charged with drink driving, driving with no insurance, and all other road traffic offences.

notable cases

• Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust v Foster UKEAT/0552/10/JOJ : (appeal regarding the application of the burden of proof in reasonable adjustment claims. If there is a real prospect of an adjustment removing a disabled employee's disadvantage, that would be sufficient to make the adjustment a reasonable one.)
• Greenwood v Northampton Borough Council EAT 2011 : (pension calculations, simplified loss approach and entitlement to the loss of enhancement of pension rights accrued prior to dismissal (Section A of the pension calculation).)
• Brown v Tyne & Wear Fire & Civil Defence Authority (2011) : (multi track trial application of Manual Handling Regulations and realistic training.)
• R v Bukhari [2008] EWCA Crim 2915 : (ambit of section 155(1) of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 in relation to confiscation orders.)
• R v Mosley (2011) : (Bradford Crown Court multi-handed violent disorder.)
• R v Wilkinson (2011) : (five day Courts Martial, ABH and witness intimidation, Sennelager.)

education

• BA (Hons) Pure and Applied Philosophy UCLAN (First Class)
• Pre Law Philosophy, Exchange at California State University, Fresno
• LLM with Distinction in International Law and International Relations - Lancester University
• GDL, College of Law, York
• BVC, UWE Bristol, Bristol
• Course Tutors Prize, UWE
• Dean's Roll of Honour Student, California State University, Fresno
• President's Roll of Honour Student, California State University, Fresno

memberships

• Criminal Bar Association
• Employment Bar Association
• North Eastern Circuit

other information

• Recent Seminars include the following:
• - Court of Protection
• - Variation of Terms in Employment Contracts
• - Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Appeals

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