Paula Bailey

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Experience and Background

Paula has extensive experience in all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious. She provides commercial and practical advice to a wide range of businesses and has developed particular expertise in outsourcing, TUPE, redundancies and restructuring programmes. Paula regularly presents seminars and provides in-house training on employment law issues.

Paula is Head of the Employment team at Howes Percival, having commenced employment with Howes Percival as a trainee in 1997.

2007 Partner, Howes Percival
2003 Associate Solicitor, Howes Percival
1999 Solicitor, Howes Percival
1997 Trainee Solicitor, Howes Percival

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A 5 Month Gap in Operations Does Not Prevent a TUPE Transfer

In the Spanish case of Colino Sigüenza v Ayuntamiento de Valladolid and others the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held that a gap of 5 months in the operation of an entity does not preclude a TUPE transfer.

Sanctity of Copyright Is Not a Protected Philosophical Belief

In the case of Gray v Mulberry Company (Design) Ltd, the EAT have found that the employee’s belief in protecting ownership of her artistic creations was not a protected belief.

NPPF 2 – The Wait Is Over

The revised National Planning Policy Framework was finally published on 24 July 2018 just before the summer recess of the House of Commons. Howes Percival’s planning team review the implications of the largest overhaul of national…