Assunta Del Priore
Year of call 1998, Middle Temple
Areas of Expertise
Employment,
Mediation,
Special Education Needs,
Employment and Workplace Mediation
Employment: Ranked Legal 500 2024 Edition
Legal 500 2024
Employment:
"Assunta is excellent in her appropriation of briefs involving complex facts and has a great ability to pull key points fact in to optimal point of legal strategy. Attention to detail is a very great strength."
Legal 500 2022
Employment – Leading Junior Band 1
"Diligent, focused and great with clients."
Legal 500 2021
Employment – Leading Junior Band 1
"A force of nature."
Legal 500 2020
Employment – ranked Tier 1
“A strong, calm, smart, formidable advocate.”
Legal 500 2019
'A specialist in employment law.'
Legal 500, 2017
'She has a very empathetic client manner.'
Legal 500, 2016
'A very safe pair of hands, and very proactive in her case preparation.'
Legal 500, 2015
'Recommended'
Legal 500, 2008
PROFILE
Assunta Del Priore has been consistently ranked as Leading Junior in Employment law on the Northern Circuit since 2015. She joined Chambers in late 2010 and previously, she practised as a barrister from Chambers in London and Manchester. Immediately before joining Chambers, she was a Senior Law Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Assunta is recognised for her hard work on every matter, immersing herself 100 per cent in the brief. She is strongly driven to provide optimum presentation of the case.
She prides herself on building a collaborative relationship with her clients.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Assunta is experienced in advising and representing clients in matters of discrimination of all types, whistleblowing, unfair dismissal, redundancies, working time, and the national minimum wage, amongst others. She has been instructed on behalf of businesses, qualifications bodies, trade unions, and individual claimants in a wide range of employment disputes.
She also practices in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal, where she has represented in disputes concerning assessments under s.36 of the Children and Families Act 2014 and contents of EHCPs including SEP, naming of schools and EOTAS.
Assunta is particularly skilled at client care, and in supporting both employer and employee clients who are facing the tribunal process. She is regarded as a highly skilled workplace mediator. She is ranked tier 1 in the Legal 500.
NOTABLE CASES
- Mr and Mrs Frudd v Partington Group Limited, UKEAT/0240/2018/OO. Considers the status of workers on-call outside the sleep-in period for national minimum wage purposes.
- Focus Care Agency Limited v Roberts [2017] I.C.R. 1186. The meaning of 'time work' in Regulation 30 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015.
- Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police v Bailey UKEAT/0166/15. Race discrimination and victimisation.
- Jackson Lloyd Ltd and Mears Group plc v Smith and Others UKEAT/0127/13. TUPE transfer from subsidiary to parent in the context of a share sale. 'Authority' of employee representatives in Regulation 13(1) (b)(i) of TUPE.
- Ashby v JJB Sports plc UKEAT/0114/12. Scope of duty to consult in redundancy cases.
- National Grid Electricity Transmission plc v Wood, UKEAT/0432/07. Implied contracts of employment - agency workers.
Appointments
Deputy District Judge
Associations
Employment Lawyers Association
Education
MA (Hons), University of Edinburgh;
M.Litt., University of St Andrews;
Postgraduate Diploma in Law, City University.
Benefactors' Scholar (Middle Temple)
Prescribed Information
Assunta is a practising barrister who is regulated by the Bar Standards Board. Details of information held by the BSB about Assunta can be found here.
Assunta’s clerks will happily provide no obligation quotations for all legal services that she provides. Their contact details can be found here. It is most common for Assunta to undertake Court and Tribunal work for either a fixed fee or brief fee plus additional refresher days. For advisory work, paperwork and conferences it is most commonly charged at an hourly rate, although fixed fees may be available. Assunta will typically return paperwork within 21 says however professional commitments, complexity and volume of documentation can affect these approximate timescales.
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