Adele Dethick

PARTNER

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8092 4136

Mob: +44 (0) 7733 327408

Email: adele@trillium-legal.com

Adele is a solicitor with over 25 years' post qualified experience practising employment law.   

She trained in London where she was mentored by a Chairman of Central London Employment Tribunal.  She went on to private practice in the South West where she specialised in tribunal advocacy, alongside corporate support and non-contentious HR and employment work.

More recently, Adele has worked in-house with a blue chip communications giant, and with a large employer in the care sector, where she managed a team of ER advisers handling an annual caseload in excess of 2,000 cases.  Adele has also spent time on the other side of the fence working for a trade union law firm with responsibility for advising trade unions and their members at regional and national level on all aspects of employment law.

Adele has acted in relation to a large number of settlement agreements and senior level exits.  She is a skilled negotiator, securing optimum results for her client, whether acting for the employer or the employee.  Adele is proud to be considered a trusted adviser across a range of blue chip companies, SMEs and sole traders, as well as individual tribunal claimants.

Adele is known for her pragmatic and commercial advice. Clients have praised her for her personable and commercially focused solutions and responsive service.

Relevant Career Highlights

  • Sphere Legal

  • BT plc

  • Anchor Hanover Group

  • Unionline

  • Lester Aldridge

Areas of Expertise

  • Settlement agreements

  • Advising on 'people' aspects of corporate transactions, acting on behalf of both sellers and purchasers, 

  • Advising on asset (TUPE) transfers and share sales, and on private equity arrangements. 

  • Restrictive covenants; enforceability and enforcement

  • Executive recruitment and terminations

  • Directors' service agreements

  • Breach of contract; claims and defence

  • Employment status and IR35

  • Redundancy

  • Trade union law; recognition and derecognition 

  • General employment matters

Recent Experience

  • Advising a telecoms company on their collective consultation obligations and managing the process from inception through to redundancy dismissals.

  • Group litigation and protective awards - securing compensation for thousands of individuals made redundant by household names such as Debenhams, Arcadia and BA securing the maximum award of 90 days' pay for most employees.

  • High profile group litigation which culminated in the leading case on holiday pay Fulton v Bear Scotland.

  • Advising on a restructure of a finance organisation and senior level exits.

  • Advising on, and implementing post-transfer harmonisation of terms and conditions.

Interesting Facts About Adele

  • Adele can drive a forklift

  • 'back in the day' she worked at Walt Disney World and spent a summer season in the 80's as a roller-skating waitress!