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Edward Cooper

Edward is Head of Practice in the employment department at Slater and Gordon Lawyers, heading up the team servicing trade unions and staff associations and their members.. Edward specialises in all aspects of employment law, as well as advising on the “corporate” needs of trades unions/staff associations. His experience has a particular emphasis on collective and policy matters; including trade union and industrial law, as well as pensions, public law and human rights-related employment issues. Edward has advised on the rules and procedures governing numerous trade unions and has wide experience in advising trade unions on mergers, Certification Officer complaints, internal disputes and industrial action issues. He has conducted numerous judicial review applications relating to public sector employment rights issues, and acted for a wide range of individual workers in a wide range of industries. More recently, he has acted in a number of professional negligence claims arising from the previous handling of their employment disputes by other solicitors and advisers, and advised on the implications of GDPR for trade unions · Slater and Gordon

EnglandEmployment, Trade Unions

About

Edward Cooper is Head of Practice in the employment department at Slater and Gordon, leading the team that advises trade unions, staff associations and their members. He specialises in all aspects of employment law with particular emphasis on collective and policy matters (including trade union and industrial law), pensions, public law and human-rights-related employment issues, and has extensive experience with union rules/procedures, mergers, Certification Officer complaints, internal disputes, industrial action, judicial review in public sector employment matters, individual employment claims, professional negligence arising from prior advisers, and GDPR issues for trade unions.

Practice areas

EmploymentTrade UnionsIndustrial RelationsPensionsPublic LawHuman RightsProfessional NegligenceData Protection

Office

Expertise

Trade Unions & Staff AssociationsCollective/Industrial Relations and Industrial ActionPublic Sector EmploymentPensionsJudicial Review (employment rights)Professional Negligence (employment matters)Data Protection / GDPR for unionsIndividual Employment Claims

Education

  • Bristol University

Admissions

  • Qualified as a solicitor, 1984