Elizabeth Melville

Elizabeth specialises in all aspects of employment and discrimination law, including restraint of trade, contractual disputes and wrongful dismissal. She is regularly instructed in complex discrimination complaints.

Up until 2003 she also practised in the fields of personal injury and clinical negligence and now applies this experience to the calculation of high value discrimination claims and in understanding issues of medical evidence and causation in discrimination cases involving a personal injury element.  Her previous experience is also invaluable in  the professional disciplinary work she undertakes in the context of the medical and healthcare professions.

Elizabeth is regularly instructed on behalf of NHS Trusts, police forces, schools and universities, public authorities and commercial organisations as well as on behalf of individuals and trades unions.

Elizabeth also sits as a Legal Assessor at the British Psychological Society.

Elizabeth was described in the most recent edition of Chambers and Partners as "100% reliable" with an "effective, client-friendly manner"