Jennifer Millins

Jennifer is a solicitor in the Employment Department, advising on all aspects of employment law. In addition to her day-to-day work, Jennifer handles large-scale discrimination cases in the Employment Tribunal - for both employers and employees - and has recently been in the High Court representing employees in a series of high-value breach of contract and bonus disputes. She is also part of the Firm's Recruitment Services Group and regularly advises both recruitment companies and individuals in the financial services industry on key issues relating to unfair competition and business protection such as breaches of restrictive covenants, data theft and team moves.

Jennifer speaks French and Spanish.

Key Experience

Acted for a group of senior City bankers in a successful challenge to the non-payment of multi-million pound guaranteed bonuses and severance payments by Dresdner Kleinwort Limited. The cases were won at summary judgment.

Acted for the recruitment company Fawkes & Reece Limited in a successful interim injunction against an ex-employee who was accused of data theft. Subsequently obtained summary judgment of the underlying claims in the High Court for breach of contract, breach of confidence and breach of database regulations, and a permanent injunction was granted.

Assisted in a major piece of litigation for a global interdealer broker. Part of that litigation established (in the Employment Appeal Tribunal) that an employee cannot bring proceedings in the Employment Tribunal in respect of matters arising in another jurisdiction, even if that employment was contiguous with employment in the UK.

Assisted in advising the ex-CEO of a large department store in a high value High Court action against his ex-employer for breach of contract.

Acted for a senior HR professional in an action against a global bank for disability discrimination and unfair dismissal, and in the subsequent mediation and settlement of the dispute prior to the full Tribunal hearing

Articles and Publications

Co-wrote an article that appeared in the September 2009 edition of the Employment Law Journal: "Draft with Care" on the use of medical questionnaires for job candidates.

Wrote a recent article for the online publication Fresh Business Thinking, entitled "How to Avoid Job Losses"

Co-wrote an article published in the Employment Law Journal in January 2010: "A Promise is a Promise" on the case of Fish & Others v Dresdner Kleinwort Limited [2009]

Career History