Nafeesa Banga
Nafeesa qualified as a solicitor in the employment team upon completion her training contract. During her training, she also completed seats in succession planning and commercial property, gaining experience in a variety of areas. She graduated from Aston University with a first-class honours degree and from the University of Law with a distinction in the […]
Katherine Cooke
Katherine have been advising on all contentious and non-contentious aspects of employment law for the past decade. Typically, she assists employer clients with day to day HR issues, including management of disciplinary and grievance hearings, redundancy processes, sickness absence management, TUPE issues, negotiated exits and data protection issues relating to employee data. She also drafts […]
Jo Walker
Jo brings both legal knowledge and a commercial focus. She advises on all aspects of employment law and assisted clients from a range of sectors with day-to-day HR matters, including disciplinary and grievance and managing sickness and absence. She typically advises employers, but also support senior employees, particularly in relation to termination of employment. She […]
Debra Cottam
Debra has been advising on all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious, for over 20 years. She is particularly experienced in the drafting of contracts of employment and HR policies and procedures. She advises clients on day-to-day HR issues including disciplinary, grievance and performance management, redundancy, discrimination and atypical working. She has expertise […]
Egan Brenda
Brenda recently joined Navigator as a Legal manager having over 20 years employment law experience. Brenda previously managed the litigation team at RBS/NatWest Mentor. This involved managing all stages of litigation from initial claim or dispute through to resolution, settlement or hearing. Brenda has also appeared in tribunal hearings and has previously worked for ACAS. […]
Morris Sean
Sean Morris, Senior Associate at Navigator, trained as a solicitor in the public sector at Brighton and Hove City Council, the first UK local authority legal team to receive LEXCEL accreditation, the quality mark for excellence in practice management and client care. He completed a seat in Education and Social Work where his responsibilities included […]
Foggo Gary
Gary has a wealth of experience in health and safety management working both ‘direct’ and in consultancy and in a wide range of work environments. He has previously been involved in the management of projects which have included the provision of a software system to manage contractor health and safety implications on behalf of the […]
Gladwell Ruth
As a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and ILM accredited Professional Workplace Mediator Ruth brings many years’ of experience from a broad spectrum of industries. Having initial experience as a people manager in her early career in the City of London, Ruth pursued her interest in human resources and obtained her initial CIPD qualifications in the […]
Milne Natalia
Natalia has recently joined Navigator as a Legal Manager. Having graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2017 Natalia achieved a first-class honours degree in Law. Alongside her studies Natalia was involved in the University’s law clinic, co-authoring an article about the Immigration Bill 2015 which was published in the Journal of the Law Society […]
Sutherland Alan
A graduate of both the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, Alan has over 15 years’ experience in employment law, firstly with Mackay Simon, at that time the leading niche firm of solicitors providing employment law advice and services only, and latterly with Maclay Murray & Spens, again specialising solely in employment law. Alan advises on […]