Jim Tindal

Jim obtained a 2.1 in Law at Birmingham University and received the Charles McConnell Prize in Equity. He obtained a distinction in the LPC at Birmingham in 1998 and qualified as a solicitor in 2000. In 2002, Jim transferred to the Bar.

Jim comes from an Employment Law background and is a part-time Employment Judge and on the Attorney General's Civil Counsel Panel. He is described in Legal 500 as “always providing clear, concise advice.”

Jim’s particular area of interest is civil cases with an employment angle: wrongful and constructive dismissal claims in the civil courts, restrictive covenants, springboard injunctions and fiduciary duties of directors and other employees. Jim writes the chapters on implied terms on employers and employees in Sweet and Maxwell Employment Law (including mutual trust and confidence) and acts for both employers and employees. His cases have included injunctions to protect confidential information in cases where restrictive covenants are unenforceable, and the fiduciary responsibilities of directors to challenge poor management in the context of an unfair dismissal claim. He has also acted in appellate cases involving the application of TUPE to sales of businesses by administrators and a civil test case involving entitlement to pensions affecting thousands of non-mainstream teachers.

Jim has considerable experience in public law cases. He regularly appears in the Administrative Court for The Treasury Solicitor, and has appeared in the Court of Appeal on a case dealing with abuse of process and local authority liability in tort and human rights for planning enforcement action.

• Owens v Dudley CC (2011) (CA).
• Challinor v Staffordshire CC (2011) (CA).
• Blake and CAB Automotive (2005) (EAT).