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Eric Gilligan

Of Counsel

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
6 Queens Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4ZT
United Kingdom
Languages English, German

Eric is Of Counsel in the Employment Team and has specialised in both contentious and non-contentious employment law for 20 years. He has acted for a range of employer clients across many sectors including energy, marine, financial services, higher and further education and the Third Sector. He has conducted advocacy in Employment Tribunals throughout the UK and appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal in both England and Scotland.

He deals with complex and high value discrimination and whistle-blowing claims and advises on HR reorganisations, as well as employee relations issues and has acted for employers in connection with a number of industrial action matters. He also advises in connection with the enforcement of restrictive covenants.

He has been accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in employment law since 2010. He is a member of the Employment Law Group and the Employment Lawyers Association. He has for many years been a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 Directory which described him as “one of the most knowledgeable employment lawyers in Scotland” and a ranked lawyer in the Chambers Directory which said of him “Client’s state “he’s very responsive, analytically very strong and understands things very clearly from a business perspective as well.
 

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Memberships & Roles

  • Employment Lawyers Association
  • Employment Law Group 
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Education

1996 - Diploma in Legal Practice, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

1995 - LL.B. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen 

1993 - M.A (First Class Honours) German and Business Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh 
 

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11/01/2024
Back to the Future? Redundancy dismissal was unfair due to lack of consultation...
A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal has re-emphasised the importance of consulting with employees on relevant aspects of a redundancy process at both a formative stage of proposals and...
13/07/2022
Striking Times (2): managing industrial action
As we discussed in our previous Law-Now Striking times: preparing for industrial action a wide variety of employers are facing the potential for industrial action this Summer. Since our last report, more...
21/06/2022
Striking times: preparing for industrial action
The current landscape The UK is experiencing the biggest rail strike in three decades called by the RMT (The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers), bringing major upheaval to the wider...
05/03/2021
Allowing or encouraging a return to the office – the potential legal liabilities
We consider when workers in England might be able to return to the office and resume business travel in light of the recently announced “roadmap” out of lockdown, as well as the latest position on...
13/01/2021
The EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA): what does it mean for...
The trade deal (referred to as the TCA) which the UK reached with regard to the EU late in December last year has some impact on employment law, particularly with regard to future employment rights and...
24/11/2020
Webinar: Beyond Brexit
As we approach the end of the transition period, what preparations should HR teams be taking to deal with Brexit? In this webinar we focus on the people management side of Brexit planning, looking at...
04/11/2020
Life after Brexit: An update on employment law implications
As part of the Withdrawal Agreement, EU law will continue to apply to the UK until the end of the transition period. However, the transitional arrangements will end on 31 December 2020, and as we seem...