Experience

GT Stewart Solicitors

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Mental Health Law

  • Apr 2021 - Present

• Supervisor - Mental Health Law Department

  • Sep 2019 - Apr 2021

• Mental Health Tribunal Panel Member

  • Dec 2018 - Sep 2019



ADR Group

• United Kingdom
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Civil and Commercial Mediator

  • Jun 2015 - Jun 2020



DH LAW Solicitors

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mental Health Panel Member

  • May 2016 - Dec 2018

  Working in this friendly firm, my workload is a mix of civil litigation, non-contentious matters, probate, and mental health/Court of Protection law.I maintain my own caseload covering the areas mentioned above and am given complete autonomy within my own matters. I have completed my training to become a member of the Law Society Mental Health Tribunal Panel, which gives me rights of audience before the Mental Health Tribunal. I am working on building the company's employment law practice up, and these private clients bring valuable income to our bottom line. I deal with issues such as settlement agreements, disciplinary and grievance matters and discrimination law.I use my contacts to bring business into the firm, and am proud that my work leads to repeat business and recommendations from previous clients as well as other firms when they have no capacity to take on matters.I achieve ambitious billing targets and contribute my spare time to charitable endeavours that the company supports.



St John's Primary School

• Local Authority Governor

  • Jun 2015 - Dec 2018

  Local Authority Governor at a local mixed primary school.As part of this role I have undertaken extensive training in the areas of:1. Safeguarding2. Financial budgeting3. Health and Safety4. Special Educational Needs and inclusion 5. Data analysis 6. Effective governors' reportingI sit on the curriculum and standards committee as well as on the main Governing Body Local Authority Governor at a local mixed primary school.As part of this role I have undertaken extensive training in the areas of:1. Safeguarding2. Financial budgeting3. Health and Safety4. Special Educational Needs and inclusion 5. Data analysis 6. Effective governors' reportingI sit on the curriculum and standards committee as well as on the main Governing Body



Help4LiPs

• Pro Bono Contributor and Information Provider

  • Aug 2013 - May 2016

  I provide legal content for this organisation which provides assistance for litigants in person. I have written a series of "How To" guides primarily focussing on family law and divorce processing. I also write and maintan a series of ebooks on diverse legal subjects.As part of a team I work on increasing website traffic and organisational exposure. I assist with the co-ordination and development of the organisation nationally, as well as locally with potential clients for our growing mediation programme. I work to grow the base of volunteers and coordinate their activities in existing and new projects and oversee the team where appropriate.Please see http://www.help4lips.co.uk/



Brent Community Law Centre

• Legal Volunteer

  • Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

  I work as a legal volunteer for this community based law centre providing legal advice to the local community on diverse areas ranging from immigration and asylum, housing law, employment related issues, family law and youth law.I am responsible for providing advice to clients over the telephone and conducting case conferences at BCLC premises in a diverse area of North West London, I conduct conferences in English, French and Spanish as required. Cases are tracked using LAM and CaseTrack for purposes of case management as well as for billing and cost recovery. I carry out a mixture of legal aid funded and privately funded work, so costs management and effective working is extremely important.I liaise with TSol on individual cases to secure positive outcomes for clients as well as with law firms acting for other parties in litigation.Due to extremely tight financial constraints I have to manage expectations and sensitively signpost people to appropriate agencies when BCLC is unable to assist. The position gives me an insight into the work of a high street law firm and the challenges facing the local population through the impact of the legal aid reforms and welfare and benefit changes.



British Airways

• United Kingdom
• Airlines and Aviation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Air Cabin Crew

  • May 2000 - Sep 2014

  Responsible for maintaining extremely rigorous standards of safety and customer service on British Airways' worldwide services.I was a member of the airline's VVIP fleet which operated Royal, government and commercially important charters.

• Customer Service Agent

  • Jun 1997 - May 2000

  Responsible for acceptance of passengers onto British Airways’ and partner airlines’ services.Required to work under tight timescales to an extremely high level of accuracy and be customer focused and had to think quickly on my feet to avoid delay to aircraft departures and revenue loss.



Unite the Union

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trade Union Industrial and Health and Safety Representative

  • Jun 2003 - Aug 2010

  Responsibilities included advocacy, representation, dispute resolution and negotiation. I was also heavily involved in Employment Tribunal and Personal Injury claims for my members. I served as a Branch Committee member which involved training new representatives and overseeing branch finances.I was involved as health and safety representative in the introduction of a highly successful new manual handling training package in order to reduce the injury rate of cabin crew while performing their duties. In conjunction with this project I was trained to "Pass on the Principles" to cabin crew during their annual recurrent training.



Marriott International

• United States
• Hospitality
• 700 & Above Employee

• Cocktail Waiter

  • Mar 1995 - Jan 1997

  Customer facing position working as a bar tender in a Marriott property in Milton Keynes, UK Customer facing position working as a bar tender in a Marriott property in Milton Keynes, UK