Neil Allen
- Call:
- 1999 Middle Temple
- Education:
- 1998 - LL.B (Hons) University of Manchester
- Practice:
- Mr. Allen practises - and accepts public access work - in employment law with particular experience in the following areas:
- Unfair, constructive and wrongful dismissal
- Employment status - particularly in relation to agency workers
- Equal pay claims and unlawful deductions from wages
- Redundancy
- All forms of discrimination (including County Court matters involving political parties)
- Occupational stress/bullying/harassment
- Restrictive covenants
- TUPE
- Immigration matters (particularly in relation to Chinese workers)
- Privacy
He is also developing a practice in mental health law with expertise in:
- The detention of restricted and unrestricted forensic patients
- The detention of voluntary and incapacitated civil patients;
- The provision of psychiatric treatment to formal patients
- Mental Health Review Tribunals generally
- Judicial review and private law avenues of redress.
- Experience:
- In addition to his independent practice, he now teaches employment law and lectures in the field of mental health law at the University of Manchester and provides training in the field to medical practitioners and social workers. He also provides pro bono advice in his capacity as Deputy Director to Manchester's Legal Advice Centre.
- Publications:
- 'Criminalising medical malpractice' (with M. Brazier) and 'Medical or managerial manslaughter?' in The Criminal Justice System and Health Care (2007) Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
- 'Re-detention after recent discharge: A role for judicial review?' (2007) 15 Medical Law Review 253-261
- A 'call for order' (2007) New Law Journal 241
- 'Good faith or no faith?' (2004) New Law Journal 1170 - 1171.
- 'Dunnachie - the door closes.' (2004) New Law Journal 1208 - 1209.
- 'The Law of Restitution' chapter 16 (2002), Butterworths Common Law Series
- 'Family values' (2001) 10 Family Law Journal (Oct) 18 - 20.
- 'No need to know?' (2001) 8 Family Law Journal (Jul - Aug) 13 - 16.
- 'A call for order' (2007) New Law Journal 241
- Reported cases
- R (L and Others) v Manchester City Council [2001] EWHC Admin 707; [2002] 1 F.L.R. 43; [2002] 5 C.C.L. Rep 268; [2002] A.C.D. 45; [2002] Fam. Law 13; Times, December 10, 2001; 2001 WL 1476308