Lucy’s background is as a senior HR professional within the NHS having worked in various roles in the health service for over 15 years. She has a master’s in management with HR and is CIPD qualified.

Lucy is experienced in people matters, workplace mediation, investigations, facilitation and is working towards her Diploma in Transformational Coaching. Her most recent role in the NHS was as a HR Business Partner leading on a project to introduce a Just and Learning Culture approach.

Laura works as PA to the Associate Directors at ibex gale. Laura has 20 years’ administration experience within the education, healthcare and engineering sectors, and is skilled in customer service, project and event management.

Lynda advises on and undertakes complex workplace investigations into a range of issues, including discrimination, bullying and harassment and whistleblowing complaints. 

Lynda has extensive experience of advising health and social care providers on the full range of employment law issues with a particular focus on advising NHS Trusts on dealing with concerns about doctors and dentists under Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS (MHPS), including conduct, capability and ill health matters and providing support and advice to case managers. 

Prior to joining ibex gale Lynda qualified as an employment lawyer and spent 5 years at trade union firms before working at DAC Beachcroft for 13 years.       

Lisa’s deep understanding of the employment law landscape and strong interpersonal and communication skills combine to great effect in the investigation and people management work that she undertakes for our clients.

Lisa worked as an employment lawyer for over 10 years before joining ibex gale, providing her clients with pragmatic support on day-to-day employee issues and guiding both employers and employees through sensitive workplace disputes and litigation involving complex discrimination complaints, whistleblowing and bullying.

Lucinda has over 25 years’ experience in people management. She advises boards and executive teams on complex employee relations issues and cultural change. One of Lucinda’s specialist areas is conflict resolution. She has carried out numerous sensitive and difficult investigations. She also has experience in the field of change management: restructuring, changes to terms and conditions and negotiating collective agreements.

Lucinda has a passion for the performing arts sector. She has delivered successful projects for companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Opera House, the Welsh National Opera, Curve Theatre, and the Edinburgh International Festival Society.

Liz spent twenty years as a barrister, becoming head of the Employment Law team at Albion Chambers until 2015, when she took a senior lecturer role at the University of the West of England. As a lawyer she was counsel instructed to represent claimants and respondents in the Employment Tribunal, the Appeal Tribunal, the Court of Appeal and the High Court.  

Liz has extensive experience and knowledge of the health sector both in terms of the clinical and administrative landscapes within Hospital, University and Health Trusts. Over many years she has been instructed in complex cases ranging from the most serious allegations of discrimination, constructive unfair dismissal, whistleblowing and equal pay claims through to technically demanding cases covering TUPE and large-scale redundancy.  

 In her time as a barrister Liz was instructed by County, City and Borough Councils, to represent them across the full range of employment law matters. Similarly in the Secondary, FE and Higher Education sector Liz has appeared for Claimants and Respondents in sensitive, high value and complex cases.  

Throughout her time in practice Liz was preferred counsel for numerous small, medium and large private companies. Specifically she was retained by one of the UK’s largest services and facilities firms for all of their complex matters.  She has worked regularly and directly with board level personnel as well as marshalling and managing evidence from operational level employees.  Liz’s ability to work with real attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture reflect her years of experience preparing for forensic cross examination of witnesses during trial.  She is also an accredited mediator and her abilities in that regard are reflected in her careful and successful pre-trial negotiations, securing lasting settlements and repeated instructions from solicitors and commercial clients.