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Alex
MacMillan
Employment Law
Specialist | Call: 2015
Strategic advocacy and advisory work in complex employment disputes, with particular
expertise in discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE, and appellate litigation.
Notable Authorities
Court of Appeal
Hare Wines Ltd
v Kaur & Anor [2019] EWCA Civ 216
Successfully resisted appeal in key case
establishing the TUPE "sole or principal reason" test.
Constructive Dismissal
McPherson &
Wayt v Boots (2022)
8-day trial concerning unmanageable roles
following organisational restructure.
Disability Discrimination
Boggs v
Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Trust (2023)
11-day complex discrimination claim secured
via Direct Access instruction.
Whistleblowing
Lowe v Keble
Heath Construction (2025)
Full withdrawal of claims following
cross-examination.
Instructing Counsel
Resources and
tools designed for employment law teams
Updated Dec 2025
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Legal Research
Database
660+ Cases
Searchable database of
employment law authorities with full summaries, judicial analysis, and cross-referenced
statutes.
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Practice Calculators
7 Tools
Instant calculators for
limitation periods, notice pay, quantum, redundancy, and holiday pay. Built for speed
and accuracy.
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Strategic Advocacy
9 Years Call
Complex discrimination,
whistleblowing, TUPE, and appellate work. Court of Appeal experience. Available for
trial and advisory.
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What Clients Say
"
A
superb and effective trial counsel.
— Legal 500
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Extremely responsive, knowledgeable and delivers high quality advice in a
client-friendly manner.
— Instructing Solicitor
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Excellent preparation and advocacy that secured a successful outcome in a complex
multi-day hearing.
— Direct Access Client
Get in Touch
For instructions or advisory
work, contact me directly or via St Philips clerks.
Knowledge Base
Explore key areas of employment law and leading authorities.
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Case Law Dictionary
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Select a topic from the sidebar to view key principles, statutory references, and the case
law timeline.
List of Issues Builder
Generate a structured Word document (.docx) containing the statutory legal tests for your chosen
claims.
⚠️ IMPORTANT WARNING:
A Tribunal will likely reject a List of Issues that
only recites the abstract legal tests. To be useful, you must edit the
downloaded document to populate it with your specific factual allegations (e.g., dates of
incidents, specific words used, names of comparators).
Recent Instructed Cases
Download Word Report (.docx)
Video Insights
Short video commentaries on recent
appellate decisions and key employment law developments.
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Video commentaries on significant EAT and
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published.
Holiday Pay
For irregular-hours workers (52-week reference period estimate).
Limitation Date Calculator
Calculate the primary limitation date for Employment Tribunal claims, accounting for ACAS Early
Conciliation extensions.
Statutory Notice Pay Calculator
Redundancy Pay Calculator
Procedural Fairness Checker
Ackerman Bargaining Calculator
A negotiation modeling tool based on the Ackerman/Voss protocol.
My Instructed Cases