Mark Trafford (1992)

Practice

Specialising in:

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Mark has appeared at all levels of court in the criminal justice system. He has represented individuals as well as corporations and local authorities. His background in civil law incorporating medical as well as employment work makes him ideally placed to undertake both criminal and civil matters.

Civil Work

Mark has, for all of his career, maintained a substantial practice in the civil field. As well as personal injury and medical negligence work, Mark developed a large and successful practice in employment law. He has represented large and small businesses as well as individuals in Employment Tribunals; courts and appellate courts in London and throughout the country. In this field he has been involved in cases of breach of contract; wrongful and unfair dismissal; restrictive covenants; all areas of discrimination and human rights. He has been instructed to represent companies as diverse as HSBC; MacDonalds;Schering Plough; Honeywell Bull; Pims, Nike, Wincanton and Thomas Cook as well as Local Authorities and individuals. He was instructed for the Respondent in one of the longest running reported cases of breach of contract and dismissal in recent years.

His arguments in relation to a police discrimination case led to a change in the law in relation to Chief Constables liability for acts of individual officers. He was led junior in the House of Lords in Re Lord Mayhew's Petition in an action relating to the rights of peers to sit in the House of Lords.

Related Experience

Mark has maintained a keen interest in medicine all of his life and spent 20 years as a trustee of a medical charity. He assisted MPs on the Standing Committees considering the 1987 Criminal Justice Act (which established the SFO) as well as the Finance Act. He has worked in the House of Commons; the House of Lords and the US House of Representatives.
He is a member of the New York City Bar Association.

Representative Cases

Gover v Propertycare [20067] ICR 1078

Lord Mayhew of Twysden's Petition [2002] 1AC 109

Hodes v Marks & Spencer plc [2001] ICR1 Notes

AM v PV and another [1999] ICR 1218

Tice v Cartwright [1999] ICR 769

Burrell v H M Customs and Excise [1997] STC 1413

P and O Trans-European v Wincanton Logistics [2001] EWCA 227

Seminars & Training

Associate Lecturer, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice

Education

Brunel University BA (Hons) History & Politics