Paul Daniels, Partner

• Area of expertise: Employment
• Office: London - Swinton House
• Email:p.a.daniels@rjw.co.uk
• Telephone:020 7657 1508

Expertise

Paul is acknowledged as a national leading expert in disability discrimination cases. He also has considerable expertise in the field of race and sex discrimination, whistleblowing and in advising senior executives on redundancy/dismissal/bonus issues.

Some of Paul's leading reported cases include Goodwin v The Patent Office in which he represented a civil servant with a mental illness which is now the leading case on the meaning of disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

He was also recently successful in one of the first whistleblowing cases under the Public Interest Disclosure Act (Azmi v Orbis).

Experience

Recent cases Paul has been involved in have included:

Advising a senior director in the media industry on a substantial termination package and Compromise Agreement.

Representing a Premiership Football Manager on a high profile employment dispute.

Representing a Senior City Executive on a high value whistleblowing and unfair dismissal case in the employment tribunal.

Career

Paul Daniels is a Partner in our Employment Department in London. He has been praised in The Legal 500 and in the Chambers and Partners legal directory, where he is ranked first amongst claimant employment lawyers and described as "professional and easy to deal with".

Education

Paul studied Law at Oxford University, graduating in 1988. He trained at international law firm, Linklaters and Alliance, qualifying into the employment department in 1993. Paul joined Russell Jones & Walker in 1995. He was made a partner in April 2001.

Professional Memberships

Paul is a member of The Employment Lawyers Association, The Discrimination Law Association and a Committee Member of the Disability Discrimination Act Advisers Group. In 2005 he was appointed part-time Chair of the Employment Tribunal.

Interests and hobbies

His outside interests include travelling, voluntary work, politics, acting and the Welsh Rugby team!

• Test case could affect retirement laws
• Ex-barrister sacked for being too old launches legal battle
• Workers successfully claim religious discrimination and constructive dismissal
• Priest attempts to go to employment tribunal over lost earnings
• Older people 'facing employment discrimination'