John McMullen
Partner
Specialist in Employment Law.
John is a partner in the firm’s Employment team
He has 25 years experience in employment law and is noted as being both a strategic thinker and leader in his field as well as being a practical hands-on lawyer. His client management and client care skills are well known. By peer acclaim he is one of the leading lawyers in the UK with a national and international reputation. Legal 500 has described John as “one of the country’s highest profile employment lawyers” and Chambers and Partners Guide to the Legal Professional stated that John “inspires tremendous confidence”.
John is a leading author in the field of employment law and his publications include Business Transfers and Employee Rights, the leading work on TUPE. John’s practical experience in TUPE and all employment law matters is extensive. As well as being a writer and commentator on mergers and acquisitions he advises in the public and private sectors on the subject of staff transfers. This includes wide experience in mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, franchising and complex restructuring. In the context of public sector transfers he has considerable experience of intra public sector transfers, central and local government contracting for services and PFI/PPP transactions. He is versed in all aspects of employment law and is lauded by clients for being able to translate the law into laymen’s terms and “getting the deal done”. He is regarded as the country’s leading expert on TUPE
Additionally, John is the author of many other works in the field of employment law, including Butterworths Employment Law Guide, Acquired Rights of Employees, Aspects of Employment Law and Tolley's Employment Law. He is a contributor to the Jordans/CIPD Employment Law Manual and has contributed the chapter on transfers to Tolley’s Personnel Practice and Procedures. He is also the editor of Redundancy: Law and Practice (2nd Edition) and Working Time: Law and Practice published in both cases by Sweet & Maxwell
John is commended in international directories as a leading employment lawyer including PLC Which Lawyer, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and the Euromoney Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers. John is a member of the Council of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), a part-time professor of Labour Law at the University of Leeds and is a member of the Editorial Board of Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law.
He is particularly experienced in international employment law and practice, including cross border mergers and acquisitions, transnational outsourcing, restructuring and European and national information and consultation procedures and agreements.
John is also a leading lawyer in the Higher Education field. He is: an Advisory Editor of the leading work on the law of Higher Education, The Law of Higher Education by Dennis Farrington and David Palfreyman and a Fellow of the Association of University Administrators (the only practising lawyer to have received this distinction). He is arguably the leading practising lawyer in the field of employment law applicable to pre 1992 (Chartered) Universities and, in particular, Universities’ Charters and Statutes.
He is a frequent lecturer on Higher Education issues, an expert on the student contract and a leader in the field of employment law applicable to pre 1992 (Chartered) Universities and, in particular, Universities’ Charters and Statutes.
Telephone : 0191 2111503
Mobile : 07850968738
Fax : 0191 2616956
Email : jmm@short-richardson-forth.co.uk