Neil Vickery

Date of Call 1985

 

RANGE OF EXPERIENCE

Neil is an employment and property practitioner with additional extensive experience of a wide range of civil litigation and advisory work.

QUALIFICATIONS

1984:  BA (Hons) in Law, (2.1) Trinity Hall, Cambridge University

1985:  MA

1985:  Called to the Bar

CAREER PATH

He joined 13 King’s Bench Walk as a tenant in 1988.

He graduated from Cambridge in 1984 and was called to the Bar in 1985. 

 

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

His professional practice has covered:

• All aspects of employment law, including in particular discrimination claims, unfair and wrongful dismissal and restrictive covenants. He regularly appears in the Tribunals in substantial race and sex discrimination claims and advises on all aspects of discrimination law.
   
• Commercial and residential landlord and tenant work including leasehold enfranchisement.
   
• All aspects of real property law including mortgages, conveyancing disputes, easements and quasi-easements and proprietary estoppel.
   
• A wide variety of commercial and contractual disputes.

 

CASES

Cases in the field of employment and property include: 

Brunel University v Vaseghi (Dec 2006 (CA)) (effect of mis-citation of authority by Employment Tribunal)

Igen v Wong [2005] ICR 931 (CA) (leading case on the burden of proof in discrimination claims)

Lloyds Bank plc v Carrick [1996] 4 All ER 630 (CA) (mortgagee’s rights against bare trustee of unregistered land; proprietary estoppel).

Warner v Adnet Limited [1988] IRLR 394 (CA) (transfer of undertakings; consultation in redundancy cases).

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Employment Law Bar Association