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Employment law is a specialised area. We have many times seen examples of employers and employees making dreadful employment law mistakes by taking advice from well meaning friends, or from lawyers who don't know what they are doing.
For employers taking the wrong advice (or no advice) can mean that they create a situation where they can be sued successfully. For employees the wrong advice (leading to the wrong thing being said) can cost them their job and any chance of a claim. For both parties, unskilled advice can cause an unrealistic view of that person's chances of success or settlement expectations, resulting in the process becoming unnecessarily drawn out and expensive.
We have seen employees who have been advised by bad lawyers that they should hold out for 12 months loss of earnings. Except in rare cases, such an expectation is unrealistic. We have also seen cases where employers have been given incompetent legal advice that they don't have to worry about the process adopted in firing an employee. Getting the process wrong is enough in itself to cause an employer to lose its case.
Someone with an employment law issue needs advice they can rely on with regard to the strength of their case and settlement expectations. Without this knowledge how will you know if an offer of settlement is any good and how long to let the case go on for?
We offer competent, experienced employment law advice, at a fair price.
Others offer competence too. If you don't want to talk to us, but competence is important to you, we suggest talking to a specialist employment law firm or employment law advocate, as a generalist lawyer is unlikely to have the knowledge or experience to advise you well. Please contact us if we can help.
For employers taking the wrong advice (or no advice) can mean that they create a situation where they can be sued successfully. For employees the wrong advice (leading to the wrong thing being said) can cost them their job and any chance of a claim. For both parties, unskilled advice can cause an unrealistic view of that person's chances of success or settlement expectations, resulting in the process becoming unnecessarily drawn out and expensive.
We have seen employees who have been advised by bad lawyers that they should hold out for 12 months loss of earnings. Except in rare cases, such an expectation is unrealistic. We have also seen cases where employers have been given incompetent legal advice that they don't have to worry about the process adopted in firing an employee. Getting the process wrong is enough in itself to cause an employer to lose its case.
Someone with an employment law issue needs advice they can rely on with regard to the strength of their case and settlement expectations. Without this knowledge how will you know if an offer of settlement is any good and how long to let the case go on for?
We offer competent, experienced employment law advice, at a fair price.
Others offer competence too. If you don't want to talk to us, but competence is important to you, we suggest talking to a specialist employment law firm or employment law advocate, as a generalist lawyer is unlikely to have the knowledge or experience to advise you well. Please contact us if we can help.