Chris Bryden

Areas of Practice

Chris has built a busy practice across the range of the common law, with the exception of crime. He appears regularly in the County Court as well as in the High Court and Employment Tribunals. He has extensive and wide-ranging experience particularly in the areas of:

• Ancillary Relief;
• Employment;
• Housing and Landlord and Tenant;
• Insolvency
• Private law children;
• Property and Commercial; and
• General civil litigation.

He also has an extensive paper practice covering pleadings and advice on all areas of the law.

Chris has also gained significant experience of mediation and alternative dispute resolution.

Before coming to the Bar, Chris spent a year working as an AO in the litigation department of the Treasury Solicitor where he gained experience of numerous cases involving the Home Office.

Chris has gained a reputation for diligence, hard work and an ability quickly to identify the important aspects of a case. He is approachable and available for advice both formally and informally and is known fearlessly to promote the interests of his clients.

Education & Qualifications

• BA Magdalen College, Oxford
• LLM University College London

Professional Memberships

Personal Injury Bar Association
Property Bar Association
Employment Lawyers Association
Family Law Bar Association

 

Interests

Debating, Rugby

 

Publications

Chris is a prolific author of legal articles and papers, which appear in various legal journals. He has recently been appointed to the panel of expert authors of the New Law Journal and is commissioned to produce at least six articles for them per year.

In addition on 25 June 2009 Chris had an article published in the Journal of Information and Communications Technology entitled I CAN See You: Harassment and Stalking on the Internet a 12,000 examination of the law relating to cyber-stalking, which is expected to attract significant media interest.

 

Recent journal articles include:

• Birmingham CC: Testing the Water New Law Journal 11 June 2010 vol 160 p821

• Joe vs The Volcano New Law Journal 30 April 2010 vol 160 No. 7415 p601

• Stressed Out New Law Journal 26 March 2010 vol 160 p446

• Unreasonable Conduct New Law Journal 12 February 2010 Vol 160 No 7404 p198

• A Matter of Intent? New Law Journal 13 November 2009 vol 159 No 7393

• Justice Denied? New Law Journal 3 July 2009 Vol 159 No 7376 p943

• Overstepping the Mark - Employment Tribunals must not stray into imposing their own view when considering the fairness of a dismissal (first published in the New Law Journal 3 April 2009 Vol 159, No 7363 p.491)

• Benefit Matters - How relevant are benefits payments to employment tribunal cases? (first published in the New Law Journal 6 February 2009 p.178)

• Stressed Out - stress in the workplace is a fertile source of litigation - (first published in the New Law Journal 28 November 2008 Vol 158 No 7347 p.1664)

• Centrum's Impact - Does Centrum mark the end of discriminatory advertising? (first published in the New Law Journal 24 October 2008 Vol 158 No 7342 p.1474)

• An Unfair Advantage? - (first published in the New Law Journal 23 May 2008 Vol 158 No 7322 pages 723-724)

• Compensation awarded under the PfHA 1997 - (first published in the New Law Journal 9th May 2008 Vol 158, No. 7320 pages 652-653)

• A Sting in the Tail - problems left by insolvent employers (first published in the New Law Journal 29 February 2008, Vol.158, No.7310, p.320)

• Which Route To Use? (first published in the Solicitors Journal 23 November 2007 Vol 151 No 44)

• Faking It - Beware False Documentation (first published in the new Law Journal 19 October 2007 Vol.157 no.7293 p.1445)

• Finders Keepers (first published in the Solicitors Journal 3 August 2007 vol.157, no.7280 p.960).

• Harassment by Third Parties - whether an employer can be held liable for harassment caused to their employees by third parties (first published in the New Law Journal 6 July 2007 vol.157, no.7280 p.960).

• Cutting Through The Smoke - consideration of the effects and other possible consequences of the Health Act 2006 (first published in the Solicitors Journal 8 June 2007).

• Stubbing Out - a review of existing causes of action available to prevent smoking (first published in the Solicitors Journal 4 May 2007).

• Choose your Court - practical guidance on the most suitable forum in discrimination claims. Solicitors Journal vol. 150 no.47 1588.

• Together with Michael Salter, Chris also writes a weekly column in the Legal Lessons section of the UK medical weekly Pulse Magazine.

 

Recent Seminars Include:

• Insolvent Employers
• After Judgment - Getting what's owed
• Harassment in the Workplace
• Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default
• Businesses, bankruptcy and life after Charman
• Costs and Compensation in the Employment Tribunal