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Grace Boorer

Year of Call: 2016
Email Address: grace.boorer@3pb.co.uk
Telephone: 01865 797 700

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Employment and discrimination

Grace Boorer acts for both claimants and respondents in preliminary and final hearings in the Employment Tribunal as well as drafting and advising on the full range of employment disputes and issues.

Her recent employment and discrimination work includes:

  • Successfully representing a Respondent in a multi-day unfair dismissal and discrimination case, involving arguments of redundancy, TUPE and sex and disability discrimination.
  • Advising on the merits of claims for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, redundancy, notice and holiday pay and all forms of discrimination.
  • Representing parties in preliminary hearings, including making applications for strike out and deposit orders.

Grace also has experience of contractual claims in the County Court and has recently drafted pleadings in a complex breach of contract case.

Investigations

Grace Boorer has experience in employment investigations covering a wide range of issues, including sex discrimination, race discrimination and harassment. She has recently been involved in investigations for a law firm and a public-sector department.

Grace Boorer is also counsel on the Government Legal Department’s junior junior scheme and is currently instructed by them to undertake work in relation to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

  • Articles

    • Disability status and the assessment of the ‘long-term’ adverse effect

      7th May 2021

      Grace Boorer reviews All Answers Ltd v Mr W and Ms R [2021] EWCA Civ 606, a discrimination case in which the Court of Appeal reasserts the importance of considering all the elements of the disability status test under s6 and schedule 1 of the Equality Act 2010, and that it is crucial to consider the question of whether an impairment had lasted or was likely to last at least 12 months at the date of the discriminatory acts.

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    • Court of Appeal confirms the causative approach to the ‘material factor test’ in equal pay claims

      8th Sep 2020

      Court of Appeal confirms the causative approach to the ‘material factor test’ in equal pay claims
      Grace Boorer looks at Walker v Co-Operative Group Ltd & Anor and identifies some important practical considerations to avoid falling into error when considering material factor defences.

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Academic qualifications

  • Bar Professional Training Course, City Law School, Outstanding, 2015-2016
  • LLB Hons, University of Bristol

 

Scholarships

  • Major scholarship and Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award, Inner Temple, 2015

Professional qualifications & appointments

  • BPTC

Professional bodies

  • Employment Lawyers Association
  • Industrial Law Society
  • Personal Injuries Bar Association
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