Legal Compliance
Employment Law
📍 Key contact: Natalie Rawson
Call 023 8082 0455 or email Natalie
Navigating every stage of the employee lifecycle:
- Starting employment – recruitment process, employment contracts and handbooks, bonus and commission schemes, workplace culture, values and director appointments.
- During employment – managing performance and absence, handling disciplinaries and grievances, changing employment terms, harmonisation, resolving director disputes.
- Ending employment – dismissals related to misconduct, performance or absence, redundancy process, settlement agreements, tribunal claims.
- Everything else – discrimination and harassment, TUPE, outsourcing, IR35, employment status, whistleblowing, working time regulations, holiday pay.
🗣 “Trethowans is excellent and very responsive. It provides satisfactory answers and its legal advice is very sound and supportive.”
Insurance Disputes
📍 Key contact: Kelvin Farmaner
Call 023 8082 0527 or email Kevin
Defending businesses and insurers against personal injury claims:
- Employer’s liability claims
- Public liability claims
- Road traffic accidents
- Product liability disputes
- Equine and animal-related claims
- International claims
We work closely with insurers to manage complex disputes efficiently. However, we also assist businesses that need to defend claims where insurance coverage is unavailable, providing strategic legal support to mitigate financial and reputational risks.
🗣 “Trethowans has provided us with an excellent all round service especially with complex, high value or more detailed cases.”
Regulatory & Compliance
📍 Key contact: Sarah Wheadon
Call 023 8082 0485 or email Sarah
Support to businesses facing investigations, enforcement action and prosecutions:
- Health and safety – including advising on health and safety offences and responding to contravention, improvement or prohibition notices
- Environmental – including advising on offences relating to water pollution, waste, fly tipping, tree preservation orders and protected species and habitats
- Consumer protection/trading standards – including advising on offences relating to trade descriptions, advertising and unfair trading
- Providing advice and representation during investigations by regulators such as the HSE, local authority, police and Environment Agency and attending interviews under caution
- Defending prosecutions and representation at the Magistrates’ or Crown Court
🗣 “Sarah Wheadon’s strengths are her attentiveness, sharp eye for detail, strong knowledge of criminal procedure and litigation and excellent communication skills.”
Immigration Law
📍 Key contact: Charlotte Farrell and Tabytha Cunningham
Call 02382 549009 or email Charlotte and Tabytha
Supporting businesses with immigration and right to work issues:
- Right to work compliance – ensuring your processes meet updated Home Office requirements and provide protection against illegal working offences, supporting with the employer’s checking service and helping mitigate risk when issues are identified.
- Business visitors to the UK – managing new ETA requirements, ensuring overseas visitors comply with restrictions and assisting with visitor visa and ETA applications.
- Individual visas – recruiting and retaining individuals within the student, graduate and high potential visas routes and assisting employees with individual visas applications.
- Sponsor licence management – helping you obtain and maintain your sponsor licence, issue certificates of sponsorship, support skilled worker applications and navigate the SMS.
- Transferring sponsor licences – notifying the Home Office after ownership changes or TUPE transfers and re-applying where required.
- Sponsor licence compliance – ensuring you meet Home Office record-keeping and reporting duties, conducting audits, answering day-to-day sponsored worker queries and supporting compliance visits.
We also deliver training tailored to your business.
🗣 “Charlotte Farrell is approachable, friendly and incredibly knowledgeable.”
🗣 “Tabytha Cunningham is a highly regarded lawyer who can quickly grasp complex areas of law”
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View HR
ViewHR are our trusted HR partners. They cover the full breadth of HR and employment related areas. Their HR services range from advising on day-to-day matters and complex employment situations through to developing successful people strategies.
View HR services include:
HR Documentation
- Employment Documents
- Contracts Policies and
- Procedures
- Handbooks
Performance Management
- Disciplinary and Grievances
- Capability
- Ill-health
Outsourced HR Services
- Day-to-Day
- Conduct Hearings
- Investigations
Business Structuring
- Re-organisation
- Redundancy
- Recruitment Strategies
Employment Disputes
- Employee Conflicts
- Employment Tribunal Support
- Settlement Agreements
For more information on what ViewHR can do to support you please click here