Direct Access Barrister
Chris Mallon
Direct Access Barrister
Chris Mallon
About me
- I worked in various industries and roles for 15 years before qualifying as a barrister.
- I have worked in recruitment and HR, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, private education and I was a law lecturer for a few years.
-Therefore, I understand how employees and businesses are affected and impacted by legal disputes and always seek a good outcome for my clients.
- I have a flexible approach to payment. Often, we can structure work into several stages to make the payments affordable/flexible.
- Particular specialism in cases involving disability and neurodivergence including ADHD, autism, AuDHD, anxiety and depression.
I can represent you in all employment and discrimination claims including:
- Unfair and constructive dismissal
- Disabiltiy discrimination (adjustments, arising from disability, direct, indirect, harassment, victimisation)
- Race, religion, sex, age, belief, maternity, pregnancy discrimination
- Unlawful deductions and breach of contract
- TUPE
- Health and safety detriment
- Trade union detriment
- Whistleblowing/protected disclosures
- Redundancy
- Grievance and disciplinary
- Sex harassment
- Discrimination (age, belief or religion, sexual orientation, sex or gender, race or national identity and more).
Area of Law
Employment and Pensions
Tribunal, County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. Mediation.
Professional Discipline
Interim and final hearings
What sort of work do I do?
What I can do?
- Representation at preliminary hearing, final hearing and case managements.
- Assessing your case prospects with a merits assessment (advising on % chance for each part of your claim)
- Employment Tribunals (all types of claim)
- Interim hearings
- Appeals.
- Reviewing witness statements
- Mediation
- County Court and High Court
Recent Achievements
- Resisted attempts to strike out/deposit order in TUPE claim (September 2026)
- Successful unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal claim - claimant dismissed after 20+ years' service. Dismissal unfair as employer had abdicated responsibility for implementing fire safety to claimant (July 2026)
- Successful age discrimination claim after experienced applicant denied job in favour of younger applicant (June 2026)
- Defended application to strike-out whistleblowing claim (claim allowed to proceed) (June 2026)
- 100% of Schedule of Loss awarded for unlawful deduction case - employer wrongly tried to claw back commission payments (May 2026)
- £31,000 for employee who was “left behind” when his work transferred to new employer under TUPE (January 2026)
- 7 claims dismissed avoiding 2 week hearing after successful argument that Tribunal did not have territorial jurisdiction.
Who do I work for?
Public access clients. National unions in the transport, arts, nursing and teaching verticals. Employees. Employers. Public bodies. Direct access clients. Small, medium and large companies, in house counsel.