Employment Solicitor at Kaslers Solicitors LLP

Mali Smith started her career, in law, as a Barrister and then, in 2008, re-qualified as a solicitor. Her main areas of practice are Employment law and Dispute Resolution carrying out contentious and non-contentious work, as follows:

Contentious: 

Mali Smith advised employees and employers in respect of Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal cases on issues such as: employment terms and conditions, unfair dismissal, automatic unfair dismissal, deduction from wages, disciplinary and grievance procedure, whisle blowing, sex and race discrimination, TUPE and so forth.

Mali had appeared in different  Employment tribunals such as central and south London tribunals  for case management, pre-hearing review and full hearings and prepared cases for EAT hearings.

Mali recently advised and won a race discrimination  case for a senior employee where he was awarded £25,000.

Non- contentious

Among other things, Mali advised and assisted a major construction company on a collective redundancy, about 100 employees,  saving them many thousands of pounds.

Mali is also an expert in drafting complex Employees Handbooks, sitting in grievance and disciplinary hearings, drafting Particulars of claim and Defence, Skeleton arguments, Witness statements, Submissions, Compromise Agreements, Further and Better particulars and  Contracts of employment.  

Dispute Resolution 

As to dispute resolution, Mali Smith successfully liaised and negotiated between litigating parties to achieve a successful settlement either through ACAS or on an agreed Compromise Agreement. 

Building on this successful experience, in 2005, she joined the ICHEIC as in-house Counsel where she advised arbitrators on law and procedure and drafted arbitration Awards.

In 2009, Mali  completed successfully the MSc course in Construction and Dispute Resolution at King’s College, London. She also successfully passed the Award Writing and the Decision making exams and now she is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Key case

Mali brought to a successful conclusion, in the Employment Tribunal,  many employment law cases and the most celebrated of them is Mrs J McDonald v. Crimpterm, [2003], in which she secured £11,477  for injury to feelings for her Client. The case made the headlines in the Daily Mail.

Qualifications

LL.B Business and Finance Law (1997), Brunel University, London

Bar Vocational Course (1999), BPP, London

QLTT re-qualified as a solicitor (2008)

MSc Construction and Dispute Resolution (2009), King’s College, London

Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute Arbitrators, London,

Memberships

Member of the Construction Society Law (SCL),

Member of the Employment Law Bar Association (ELBA).

Member of Lincoln’s Inn