- Lee Harding
- Associate, London
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
- lee.harding@ffw.com
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+44 (0)20 7861 4050
Lee Harding has a strong public sector background, originally working as a
policy adviser for the public body responsible for monitoring and
advising on the performance of the youth justice system.
Lee qualified as a solicitor
for the Government Legal Service, for what is now the Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills, advising on public law issues,
drafting secondary legislation and helping to shape primary
legislation relating to employment law. He also spent six months
working on secondment to the Treasury Solicitor's Department,
resisting judicial reviews on immigration and national security
grounds.
Lee advises on the full
range of employment and pension issues.
Lee advises on employment law issues including contentious and
non-contentious matters covering unfair dismissal, whistleblowing,
unlawful discrimination, redundancy, breach of contract, holiday
pay, unlawful deduction of wages matters, restrictive covenants, as
well as TUPE. He has also represented employees at pre hearing
reviews and full merits hearings.
On the pension side, Lee advises trustees and private sector
employers of both large institutional pension schemes and small
private schemes on a range of different issues, including sex and
age discrimination issues, employer consultation, auto-enrolment,
as well as providing more strategic advice, such as terminating
pension accrual or triggering a scheme's winding-up.
Lee has handled various corporate transactions, ranging from
document disclosure and due diligence reviews to drafting of
indemnities and guarantees.
In addition to the public
sector, Lee also advises clients in the energy, life sciences,
media & entertainment, retail and transport
sectors.
Also, Lee has presented a
workshop on TUPE, covering both employment and pensions issues, as
part of the Employment and Pensions Group annual training
programme.