Grant Goodlad

Grant’s employment practice is his major area of legal work and includes unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, redundancy, and discrimination.

Grant’s personal injury work for both claimants and defendants includes RTA’s, workplace accidents and clinical negligence.

Grant has experience both as counsel and as a solicitor in representing and advising organisations and individuals in a number of regulatory areas. He is also a mediator.

Healthcare

• Case presenter, Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Representation before the disciplinary committee of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
• Company secretary and legal advisor to a private hospital
• Solicitor retained by a General Hospital NHS Trust
• Solicitor retained by a (then) Area Health Authority

Sport

• Mediation of sports disputes (as below)
• Formerly, legal adviser to a Premiership Rugby Union Football club with particular reference to employment, discrimination, disciplinary and contractual issues

Mediation

• Mediator accredited by CEDR in 1996
• Member Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Member of the Sports Resolutions panel of mediators
• Experience both as mediator and as party representative in disputes in areas including Rugby Union and Association Football
• Former member of training faculty, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators mediation training course

Grant accepts instructions to attend inquests.

Grant has experience of successfully acting for claimants in resisting allegations of fundamental dishonesty and for defendants making such allegations. Cases have included allegations relating to fraud rings, vehicle occupancy, exaggerated and fabricated injuries and LVI.

Since the mid 2000s Grant has represented both claimants and defendants in credit hire cases at all levels from the small claims track to the multi-track. He takes a keen interest in the subject being familiar with the underlying principles from earlier cases and taking a keen interest in following developments in recent authorities.

Grant regularly makes submissions upon the common issues of enforceability, need, period of hire, impecuniosity and basic hire rates. He is experienced in dealing with cases involving less common matters including fraudulent hire claims, older and younger drivers, motorcycles, motor fleets, coaches and taxis, and alternative measures of loss such as general damages for loss of use, standing charges for replacement fleet vehicles and loss of profits from taxis as profit earning chattels.