Experience and Background
Charles Wynn-Evans, head of the employment practice in London, focuses on all contentious and non-contentious employment-related matters. His practice includes handling issues relating to redundancy, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, unlawful discrimination, industrial action, boardroom disputes, restrictive covenants, agreed terminations, tax issues and all kinds of employment-related litigation as well as the employment aspects of corporate transactions. He trained with the firm, was admitted as a solicitor in 1992 and has been a partner at Dechert since 1997.

Mr. Wynn-Evans is acknowledged as a leader in his field by the independent UK legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers. He is described in Chambers UK 2010 as "drawing consistent plaudits for his in-depth understanding of employment law and his 'keen sense of commercial realities'". According to Legal 500 UK, 2009, "Practice head Charles Wynn-Evans delivers 'a quality service, efficiency and practical advice', and commands significant respect among peers". In Chambers UK, 2009 he is described as "'a charming problem solver who always comes up with the goods.' He is 'responsive, adaptable and has great judgement', and peers describe him as 'the TUPE king'."

Mr. Wynn-Evans writes regularly on employment law issues for journals such as People Management, Personnel Today, Industrial Law Journal and Employment Law Journal. He has contributed to a number of books on the subject and is the author of Blackstone's Guide to the New Transfer of Undertakings Legislation (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Mr. Wynn-Evans is a CEDR accredited mediator and a member of the Employment Law Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales and of the City of London Law Society. He is a fee-paid (part-time) employment judge assigned to the Birmingham region. Mr. Wynn-Evans is a governor of Heber Primary School in south London.

Education
Mr. Wynn-Evans graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Law in 1988. He obtained the postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law from Merton College, Oxford in 1990.

Publications and Lectures

• Publication: Employees May be Entitled to Legal Representation in Disciplinary Hearings
• Publication: Dismissing Employees Because of Client Demands Can be Lawful
• Publication: Working Conditions After a TUPE Transfer: Employers Need to be Wary of Constructive Dismissal
• Publication: It's Important to Ask the Right Questions in Pre-employment Medical Questionnaires
• Publication: Shoot First Ask Questions Later
• Publication: A Retailer's Guide to Swine Flu
• Publication: Should Employers Offer Redundant Employees the Right of Appeal?
• Publication: Gate Gourmet Workers Lose Unfair Dismissal Appeals
• Publication: Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation v Buckland
• Publication: To Ensure Expenses Are Not Abused You Need A Clear Policy
• Publication: Dilemma of the Month... Redundancy Exercise
• Publication: When Companions Can Come into Disciplinary and Grievance Meetings
• Publication: Alemo-Herron v Parkwood Leisure
• Publication: Stuart Peters Ltd v Bell
• Publication: Age Discrimination and Redundancy
• Publication: Unequal Practice
• Publication: The Legal Issues
• Publication: Substantial Changes and the Right Not to Transfer
• Publication: UCATT v Amicus
• Publication: How to Avoid Traps When Making Bumping Redundancies
• Publication: Royal Mail Group v Communication Workers Union
• Publication: How to Avoid Traps When Making Bumping Redundancies
• Publication: Service Provision Fragmentation and the Limits of TUPE Protection
• Publication: Rolls-Royce v Unite
• Publication: Dickins v O2
• Publication: If You Opt For Litigation, It Pays to Be Prepared for Mitigation
• Publication: Are Age Related Redundancy Schemes Discriminatory?
• Publication: Employers Take Note: Changes Have Been Made to Employment Laws in the UK
• Publication: What Not to Wear? Ongoing UK Case Law Developments on Dress Codes
• Publication: Immigration Checks and Employee Liability Information During TUPE Transfers
• Publication: Will the National Dismissal Register be More Trouble than it's Worth?
• Publication: Transfer-related dismissals - the latest case law
• Publication: TUPE or not TUPE?
• Publication: What are the limits of Homophobia?
• Publication: Does TUPE apply to offshoring?
• Publication: Dress Codes Should Not Have Negative Consequences for Particular Religious Groups
• Publication: Garden Leave, Constructive Dismissal and the Implied Term
• Publication: Get Moving to Stay Away from Extra Costs
• Publication: Redundancy and Mobility Clauses
• Publication: The Ongoing Saga of TUPE and Contractual Variations
• Publication: Recruiting Foreign Nationals
• Publication: When Compromise Agreements Unravel
• Publication: Discretionary Bonus Awards, UCTA and the Duty to Give Reasons
• Publication: Disability Discrimination - Reasonable Adjustments
• Publication: EAT Sends Out Conflicting Messages for Employers
• Publication: Dismissal on the Grounds of Personality
• Publication: Self-Incrimination in English Employment Law
• Publication: Developments in Bonuses and Pay Rises
• Publication: Pensions and TUPE Transfers
• Publication: Data Protection and Workers' Health
• Publication: How Much Will Your Party Cost?
• Publication: Of Portmanteaux and Bridgeheads
• Publication: Making Promises You Need Not Keep?
• Publication: Employees' Duty to Disclose Their Own Wrongdoing
• Publication: Calculating maternity pay - Confusion reigns?
• Publication: International Private M&A--The Differences That Can Become Deal Breakers
• Publication: Some U.K. Labor and Employment Law Issues
• Publication: Collective Redundancy Consultation - Some Recent Cases
• Publication: A Duty to Advise Employees?
• Publication: TUPE - Undertakings appear on retendering?
• Publication: Dismissal and employees' private lives
• Publication: Telework - DTI Guidance
• Publication: Stress at work enforcement notices
• Publication: Religion, Belief and Sexual Orientation -- The New Discrimination Regulations
• Publication: Dress Code Conundrums -- Ties Untied or Uniform Uniforms
• Publication: Equal Pay Questionnaires -- The Start of a New Era?
• Publication: True Malice Aforethought - Libel in the Employment Context
• Publication: Workplace Language and Constructive Dismissal
• Publication: Beware of Conferring Contractual Status
• Publication: Constructive Dismissal, TUPE and Subsidiarity
• Publication: United Kingdom Business Immigration
• Publication: Trust and Confidence and the Wrongful Dismissal Claim
• Publication: Changing Defined Benefit Schemes
• Publication: Sex Discrimination Law
• Publication: Proposed Minimum Disciplinary and Grievance Standards
• Publication: Stress Awards Set to Reduce?
• Publication: Flexible Working: Taskforce Report
• Publication: Flexible Working: Government Taskforce Recommendations
• Publication: TUPE - What Next for Security and Cleaning Contractors?
• Lecture: Statutory Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures