Margaret Davis is in the Employment Practice and
joined the firm in 1998 as a partner.
She has considerable experience of advising employers on all
aspects of employment and discrimination law and speaks often at
lectures and seminars. Margaret has extensive experience of
advocacy in the employment tribunals. She regularly advises
household name clients and financial service clients, including
banks and has been involved in many high profile cases.
Margaret has also acted in a substantial discrimination case for
a regulated company which was resolved by an international
mediation, for the GMC in a case which decided that the General
Medical Council was not a trade organisation and successfully
defended a set of barristers chambers in a claim of disability
discrimination by an individual seeking pupillage.
Margaret is a member of the Law Society, Employment Lawyers
Association, European Employment Lawyers Association, Industrial
Law Society, American Bar Association and is on the International
Employment Law Committee. Margaret was, until October
2007, a non-Executive Director of one of the largest Health Trusts
in the country and is Chair of its Human Resource Committee. She is
also a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists Reinstatement Appeals Committee and was a Task Force
Member of the National Patient Safety Agency ‘Back on Track’
project and the Services Review Panel for the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and contributed to its report.
Margaret has contributed to books and articles on a wide range
of employment law issues including the annual Charity Finance
Directors' Handbook and the maternity section of an on-line
employment publication directed to HR Managers. Margaret presents
seminars and workshops on a regular basis as part of the Employment
and Pensions Group annual training programme. Margaret speaks
regularly at conferences and seminars and is a member of the
Central London Retail Personnel Group and the City HR Group.