Fraser Whitehead, Partner

• Email:a.f.whitehead@rjw.co.uk
• Telephone:020 7657 1611
• Office: London - Swinton House
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Expertise

Fraser is one of the UK's leading lawyers in the field of civil litigation and dispute resolution. He specialises in cases involving breaking new legal grounds and including multi-party claims in the field of collective redress in particular utilising European legislation.

He negotiated the first ever scheme for compensating WRULD injuries. . He has been involved in a number of House of Lords decisions on Labour law, and Court of Appeal and EAT decisions on individual employment and compensation rights.

Career

Fraser Whitehead is one our Senior Litigation Partners and is head of our Parliamentary and Legal Affairs departments and our Trade Union Services Group.

He advises individuals and collective groups including in particular Trade Unions and their members on a wide variety of work related and labour law issues, including collective and individual employment rights, collective and regulatory law, industrial action and work environment issues, including Health and Safety.

Fraser is active both within the legal profession and in the wider world. He is a recent director of the Mary Ward Law Centre, a trustee of the Mary Ward charitable trust  a former trustee and Chair of the Child Accident Prevention Trust, and is now its Honorary Legal Advisor. , a role which he also held for the Press for Union Rights Campaign. He is Chair  of the Society of Labour Lawyers, a member of and former Chair of the Law Society's Civil Justice Committee. He is a Law Society Committee Member and member of its Legal Affairs and Policy Board. He is a member of the Institute of Employment Rights and APIL.

Additionally, Fraser is a Member of the Advisory Council of Unions 21. He was a member of the Blackwell Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor to examine the way Personal Injury and Employment law cases are handled by advisors and is currently a member of the Ministry of Justice's Advisory Council on Civil Costs. He is a council member of the Islington Free Legal Advice Service. His work in the pro bono sector included founding the 'Big Friend Little Friend' Charity now one of the largest UK organisations assisting single-parent families.

He sits on the Joint Tribunal adjudicating matters arising in professional practice between Solicitors and Barristers.

Education

Fraser qualified as a Solicitor in 1975 and became a Partner of Russell & Walker in 1978.

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• Call for English bill on pleural plaques
• Scotland passes plaques bill
• Employers' liability insurance bureau bill launched
• FSA facing multi-million compensation claim GFX collapse