Ayisha Akamo

Expertise

Ayisha is an Associate in the gunnercooke Employment Team. She advises employers and employees on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment matters and has a particular interest and focus on guiding employers and employees to resolve workplace disputes.

She has experience of representing clients in the Employment Tribunal, provides day-to-day advice on a variety of HR issues and general advice in relation to disciplinary and grievance procedures, policy reviews, drafts employment contracts and settlement agreements.

Ayisha also has significant experience in general dispute resolution matters.

She works closely with gunnercooke partners Paul Ryman and Shilpen Savani

Ayisha takes pride in her ability to build successful rapport with her clients, in order to understand their needs and objectives and to ensure that pragmatic solutions are achieved.

Ayisha is a member of the Employment Lawyer’s Association’s race equality committee, and was recently a member of the ELA working party providing the ELA’s response to the government’s call for evidence on racial and ethnic disparities in the UK.

Ayisha Advises

• Employees and senior executives
• Entrepreneurs and business owners
• SMEs and Companies

Experience Highlights

• Assisting in representing over 250 judges in the successful age, sex and race discrimination challenge to the government’s new judicial pension scheme.
• Advising a senior employee in relation to a potential race discrimination claim against a global charity and successfully negotiating a generous compensation payment.
• Assisting in representing claimants in a large multi-party equal pay litigation.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Leigh Day

Education

• University of Warwick – LLB with Year Abroad in English (2:1)
• University of Law – Legal Practice Course with LLM (Distinction)

Memberships

• Employment Lawyers Association