Employment law
A workplace dispute is often time-sensitive and personal. The starting point is to identify the issue, the documents and the decision that needs to be made.
Advice, drafting and advocacy
Employment is listed among Keane's areas of practice on the BSB Barristers' Register. Suitable enquiries may concern employment contracts, grievances, dismissals, discrimination, tribunal claims or appeals. The defined work can include an initial opinion, drafting a claim or response for the client to file, advice on evidence and representation at a suitable hearing.
Whether Keane can accept a particular matter depends on conflicts, competence, availability, timetable and the client's ability to handle tasks that require a solicitor or a litigant in person. No enquiry is an accepted instruction.
Prepare a short, useful chronology.
Say whether you are contacting as an employer or employee, when the relevant events happened, what process is underway and what decision or deadline is approaching. Other parties' names may be requested for a conflict check later; do not send sensitive personnel records or full bundles in an initial enquiry.
If tribunal proceedings are involved, procedural deadlines can be strict. An enquiry does not pause them. Seek urgent assistance through an appropriate legal provider where time is short.
Employment Tribunal work
Keane is willing to consider suitable Public Access instructions for advice, drafting and representation in Employment Tribunal matters, including ordinary unfair or wrongful dismissal claims. Indicative fee ranges and key stages are available in the fees section; the actual fixed fee and VAT are agreed for a specific piece of work in writing.
Keane can draft an ET1 or ET3 where appropriate, but cannot issue, file or serve documents, go on the court record or conduct litigation. The client or an authorised solicitor must do that work and keep track of deadlines. If direct instruction is unsuitable, Keane will say so.