Corrine advises clients in respect of all employment law across the Middle East region, including in Qatar (in the State and the QFC), the UAE (including within the financial free zones) and Saudi Arabia.
She advises on a full range of contentious and non-contentious work, including complex employment litigation, providing strategic and commercial advice in relation to employment issues often involving multiple concurrent internal employment procedures, governance and regulatory issues and senior employees.
She also advises on the full employment cycle, including recruitment strategy and onboarding, contractual and policy documentation, management of conduct and performance, terminations, pay, leave, working hours and organisational issues (including large scale redundancy and restructuring programmes, cross-border issues and mergers and collaborations).
Corrine also has particular experience in advising clients in the education sector, including advice in relation to safeguarding, student and regulatory matters. In addition, Corrine has extensive experience in training on all aspects of employment law.
Corrine is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association and the Qatar British Business Forum.
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A selection of Corrine's experience includes:
- providing strategic and commercial advice in relation to navigating complex employment issues often involving multiple concurrent internal employment processes, regulatory implications, members of senior leader teams, sector specific topics such academic freedom and public and trade union relations;
- regularly drafting, reviewing and negotiating legal documents for clients with a global presence, fit for purpose in the Middle East region, including handbooks, staff and student policies, settlement agreements, service agreements, international secondment and consultancy agreements and warranties and indemnities in employment aspects of commercial agreements;
- advising employers in respect of hybrid and remote working arrangements and engaging and employing employees based overseas compliantly, according to the applicable immigration and employment laws; and
- litigation in the DIFC, involving a number of allegations of discrimination in the UAE and overseas, from a senior ex-employee, spanning over a number of years.
- Solicitor of England and Wales (2012)
- Legal Practice Course - Leeds Metropolitan University, 2009
- Law LLB (Hons) – Leeds Metropolitan University, 2008