Moira Campbell

Moira is a Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 ranked senior employment solicitor, with particular strength in litigation. She regularly represents clients pursuing and defending complex claims for discrimination, harassment and whistleblowing.

Client work

Moira represents and advises individuals and employers on all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. She has extensive experience advising senior executive employees in negotiating sensitive and high value exits and provides day to day advice to employer clients, on all aspects of employment law.

Moira’s clients include senior executives, partners and employers, working within a broad range of industries. She regularly acts for clients within the financial and professional services, legal, tech, media, publishing, manufacturing and fashion industries.

She often advises clients who are dealing with difficult emotional circumstances and has a track record of sensitively, yet commercially, guiding clients through their employment situations, in order to reach the best possible outcome.

Moira also advises on employment contracts, consultancy agreements, settlement agreements, disciplinary and grievance procedures, performance management, commission and bonus payments, business restructuring and reorganisation, data protection, confidentiality and restrictive covenants.

In the media

Moira comments regularly in the media on employment-related issues, including being quoted in the Times, the Sunday Times, Legal Week and Juriste International (UIA) and being interviewed for a Channel 4 documentary.

She regularly writes articles for external publications and gives presentations at client seminars and training events. She is a member of the International Lawyer’s network, AIJA, and recently gave a presentation on flexible and hybrid working in Dubai. She has had articles published in HR Magazine, People Management, the International Employment Lawyer, the Legal Gazette, My Tamarin and the Solicitor’s Journal.

Diversity and Inclusion

Moira is passionate about equality and diversity. She founded and chairs the firm’s parents and carer’s network, volunteers to give pro bono advice to the charity ‘Working Families’ and is an expert adviser to Workingmums. She has introduced a number of internal initiatives to support working parents, such as a ‘pregnancy loss’ policy and a carer’s statement.

Prior to commencing her career in law, Moira worked in headhunting in the financial sector, in Tokyo, Japan. She also holds a BA in History and a Masters in Social Anthropology.  

what clients and directories say

Moira is particularly good at understanding the detail of the case. She is very good with clients and is particularly well prepared for hearings."

Chambers & Partners, 2022

Moira is recognised for her hard work with senior employees and has standout experience handling employment disputes on behalf of those individuals."

Chambers & Partners, 2022

Nick Ralph and senior associate Moira Campbell are also highly rated… Both are exceptional lawyers."

Legal 500 UK 2022

I feel extremely fortunate to have met you and have my case resolved in such a professional way. I genuinely am grateful to have come across an excellent lawyer and good human being. I hope many others will be lucky enough to cross paths with you."

A client

You have been wonderful and I will recommend you I am sure to, a no doubt growing list of people in the future.”

A client

I would like to thank you personally for your hard work and support on getting this matter closed. I would recommend you and your company without hesitation.”

A Client

I am very grateful to you for your assistance with recent matters, your support was invaluable to me during a very difficult period.”

A Client

I personally would like to thank you so much for all the work that you did for us. We don't like the stodge/incompetence of provincial firms which explains why we came to you. We both had memories of the past (almost back to the late 80s when Kingsley Napley was a name to be reckoned with!) wanting top quality quick, effective, legal and commercial advice with no messing about and that is exactly what we got - but plus, plus, plus as everyone was so quick to respond, courteous, helpful and ready to laugh with us. Just great!"

A Client

We really appreciated your weighing up of the situation and balancing one thing against another. At the end of the day, yes a sensible solution was achieved and we are on to the next thing."

A Client

So, all in all a good result and thank you very much again. You deserve to be at the very top and recognised as such.”

A Client

Your help and advice was invaluable and the time and trouble you took is much appreciated.”

A Client

I really appreciate the effort that Moira put in on my behalf, especially going the extra mile to turn things around at the weekend, against a background of a cost-conscious client".

A Client

I will definitely continue to recommend Kingsley Napley to friends if they are unfortunate enough to find themselves in an uncomfortable position at work.”

A Client

thank you for your very prompt, efficient, and professional services.”

A Client

I have been delighted by the care and attention that I have received from Andreas and Moira. They make a great team and have navigated me through this nightmare with excellent advice and great humanity. I would not hesitate to recommend Kingsley Napley to others.”

A Client

 

Recent cases

Recent Employer work 

• Working with the firm’s criminal and dispute resolution departments to carry out an internal investigation on behalf of an employer client and advising on related employment processes, such as the suspension, and ultimate dismissal, of the client’s CEO and related issues.
• Acting for a legal recruitment business in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal in defending claims for harassment on the grounds of race, sex and disability and constructive dismissal.
• Acting for an employer in defending claims of sexual harassment and successfully obtaining a strike out of part of the claim and a Rule 50 anonymity order.
• Acting for well-known member of the aristocracy. Obtaining a Rule 50 anonymity order in respect of the proceedings and successfully settling a complex claim against them.
• Acting for a law firm in defending complex proceedings brought against them.
• Successfully and commercially resolving substantial whistleblowing Tribunal proceedings brought against a financial services employer client.
• Making a successful application for strike out of unmeritorious Tribunal claims, brought against an employer client, for unfair dismissal, breach of contract and unlawful deduction of wages.

Recent Senior Executive work

• Representing senior executive client who brought high value disability, sex and age discrimination claims against her City employer. Advising and representing client at a mediation and successfully negotiating the terms of a substantial (6 figure) settlement;
• Advising a senior executive in relation to stress at work and negotiating a high value settlement on their behalf with particularly high value deferred remuneration.
• Acting for a lawyer by challenging her redundancy and bringing a claim for discrimination on the grounds of sex and part-time worker status and successfully settling that claim.
• Representing a senior executive working in financial services in respect of their whistleblowing claim.

 

PUBLICATIONS

• Understanding the benefits of flexible working - Article written with Jess  Rice for People Management, March 2022
• Flexible working – fit for firms? - Article written for Solicitors Journal, December 2021
• Support menopause or prepare for court, firms told - Quoted in The Times (Online & Print), November 2021 
• Hybrid working: five key employment law considerations for employers - Article written for HR Magazine, November 2021
• It affects everyone pregnancy loss policies welcomed as more firms mull them  - Quoted in Legal Week, October 2021
• Navigating change at Kingsley Napley - Article written for mytamarin, September 2021
• New flexible working rights: mere ‘tinkering’ and likely to lead to ‘long delays’ at tribunal? - Quoted in Solicitors Journal, September 2021
• Leading the way: it’s time for action on pregnancy loss - Article written for International Employment Lawyer, June 2021
• Lawyers get leave for pregnancy loss - Quoted in The Times, June 2021
• Ending the pregnancy loss taboo - Article written for Law Society Gazette, June 2021
• Juriste International 2021-1 - Article written for Juriste International - UIA, June 2021
• What are the alternatives to compulsory redundancy? - Article written for PM Daily, April 2021
• Third of ethnic minority workers have been unfairly turned down for a job, research suggests - Quoted in PM Daily, March 2021

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

• City of London Law Society
• Employment Lawyers Association 
• London Solicitors Litigation Association
• AIJA – International Association of Young Lawyers
• Industrial Law Society