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Introduction to trade union recognition and access to workplaces: what you need to know

Run Time
71 Minutes
Learning Method
On-Demand Training
Practice Area
Employment Law
Available Until
18/03/2028

Price $145.00

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Description

Join Lauren Godfrey and David Lipson, Barristers at Gatehouse Chambers, in this webinar on what you need to know on trade union recognition and access to workplaces. The following is covered in this webinar:

  • What is Trade Union Recognition?
  • How do Trade Unions get recognition?
  • Rights conferred by recognition
  • Changes and derecognition
  • Trade Union Workplace Access under the Employment Rights Act 2025


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Speakers

Lauren Godfrey

Barrister

Gatehouse Chambers

Lauren is a commercial chancery practitioner.

The focus of his practice is cases involving allegations of fraud and dishonesty.

Many of his cases have required careful witness handling or raise specific specialist procedural issues such as the clean hands doctrine, res judicata and the consequences of perjury and contempt of court.

The core of Lauren's practice engages issues of professional negligence, restraint of trade, company, partnership, LLP, trusts, employment, breach of fiduciary duties, directors’ duties, unfair prejudice, insolvency, derivative claims, confidential information, intellectual property rights, defamation, data protection and discrimination.

Lauren has acted for a full range of clients including banks, insurers, finance companies, directors, shareholders, partners, senior employees, local authorities, central government, trade unions, and not-for-profit entities.

Prior to the Bar, Lauren had a successful career as a senior trade union advocate representing executives and senior staff in the Telecoms sector, the Civil Service and the NHS.

Lauren has 18 years’ experience as a Senior Lecturer in Law (Sessional) at Birkbeck College, where he studied as an undergraduate, most recently teaching Company Law.
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David Lipson

Barrister

Gatehouse Chambers

David’s practice revolves around residential and commercial property disputes, professional negligence, commercial disputes and employment law. David frequently appears in the County Court for fast track trials, application hearings, directions hearings and pre-trial reviews. David recently represented the Mary Ward Legal Centre in a six-day High Court trial, led by Peter Petts with Mark Erridge, in Christie v Mary Ward Legal Centre and Andrew Dymond [2025] EWHC 330 (KB).

Before joining chambers, David worked as an assistant to a barrister who specialised in media and defamation claims and achieved successful outcomes for clients including prominent politicians, both foreign and domestic, and public figures on social media. He has experience drafting pleadings and advising in complex defamation disputes. David recently drafted pleadings and appeared in the High Court in a defamation claim concerning messages posted in a WhatsApp group chat.

David has also previously worked as data protection paralegal in the healthcare sector, and as an assistant to an employment barrister with a particular focus on discrimination claims.

David completed an LLB at University College London and an LLM at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He received both the Roger Cox Scholarship and an Advocacy Scholarship for his Bar Practice Course at the University of Law, for which he obtained a distinction.

David enjoys travelling the world and cycling, occasionally at the same time.
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