Services

 

Victoria helps small and medium-sized businesses with all their HR and employment law needs.  She also helps law firms with their overflow work.  Please note that Victoria only advises businesses and does not provide individual employment advice.

She regularly advises on:

  • Employment contracts

  • Consultancy agreements

  • Employee handbooks

  • Managing grievances

  • Disciplinary procedures

  • Dealing with underperformance

  • Managing sickness absence

  • Advising on employment status

  • Secondment agreements

  • Maternity and paternity rights

  • Bonus schemes

  • Redundancies

  • Settlement agreements

  • Post-termination restrictions

  • TUPE

  • Other general HR and employment law issues.

 

Information about FitzGerald Legal Limited

Victoria is professionally trained and qualified as a solicitor; she is included on the Law Society roll of solicitors and maintains a current practising certificate.  She has, however,  chosen to provide her advice through FitzGerald Legal Limited as a non-practising solicitor, and FitzGerald Legal Limited is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. 

There are two key reasons for this: (i) the areas on which Victoria advises fall outside the six “reserved legal activities” on which only practising solicitors can advise; and (ii) as a result, she is able to avoid the costly overheads that law firms traditionally have to pay.

The benefit to clients is that they receive the highest quality advice but at much lower rates than through traditional law firms.  She also provides a personal service which many HR and legal helplines cannot offer.

Please also note, however, that because Victoria is advising as a non-practising solicitor:

  • there is no right to complain to the Legal Ombudsman

  • the work will not be covered by legal professional privilege

  • Victoria does not advise employees and cannot sign settlement agreements for employees

  • she does not represent clients in court

  • the protections in the SRA Accounts Rules 2011 relating to client money do not apply

  • there is no right to apply for a grant from the Compensation Fund and the work is not covered by compulsory (i.e. solicitors’) indemnity insurance - although Victoria still maintains professional indemnity insurance of £1 million

For further information please feel free to contact Victoria on 07852 151972.