Speaker biographies

Peter Frost, Partner, Herbert Smith


Anna Henderson

Anna is a professional support consultant in Herbert Smith’s employment law practice. Before joining the firm in 2000, she was a senior associate at CMS Cameron McKenna acting on a wide range of employment disputes, transactions and general advisory work. Whilst fee-earning, she obtained a (distance-learning) masters degree in employment law and industrial relations, which included an in-depth examination of stress and employment law.

In her current role Anna focuses on analysing the latest legal developments and their impact for clients. She provides internal training for the group, writes client updates, speaks at external conferences and delivers client seminars and in-house training for clients. She has contributed chapters to a number of books, covering subjects such as TUPE, executive severances and precedents, as well as writing articles for a number of legal journals. She is also a member of the Editorial Committee for the Employment Lawyers Association Briefing and founded and organises the Employment PSLs Network, PEN.


Sarah Keeble, Partner, Olswang


Susan Fanning, Partner, DLA Piper


Leatham Green

Leatham Green is Assistant Director: Personnel and Training at East Sussex County Council. He has worked in the public sector for over 20 years and has held a range of leadership roles from contract management to ICT Services. One common feature throughout his career has been people and how to encourage people to achieve their true potential.

Leatham is a graduate from Leeds University and gained an MBA from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is a successful coach both with executives and teams and is a Master Practitioner of NLP.


Catherine Wilson, Partner, Eversheds


Christine Moore

Christine Moore is Head of Diversity Enterprises and Consulting at BT. Prior to taking up her current Diversity role, Christine was Head of Employment Law and worked as an in-house lawyer with BT for 19 years, having joined in 1988 on qualification as a Solicitor on completion of her training contract in local government. Her legal career within BT has covered a wide range of areas, including Property Law, Planning and specialist litigation.

Christine has specialised in employment law for the past 15 years and has an MBA Degree. From 1997 to 2006 Christine was the Commerce and Industry Group representative on the Law Society Employment Law Committee.

As Head of Diversity Enterprises and Consulting in the BT People and Policy HR Team, Christine is responsible for consulting and advising on a wide range of diversity policies and issues.


Simon Jeffreys

Simon Jeffreys has been a Partner in the employment law group with CMS Cameron McKenna since 1988. Simon read law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1982. He has since spent his entire career with CMS Cameron McKenna and its predecessor McKenna & Co. His experience includes drafting employment documentation, directors' service contracts and severance, advising on individual sex, race and disability discrimination disciplinary and dismissal issues, redundancy programmes and relationships with trade unions. He also advises on employee aspects of mergers and acquisitions, privatisation, outsourcing and public/private partnerships.

As a litigator he has conducted cases for clients in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal ranging from unfair dismissal to enforcing restrictive covenants and injuncting trade unions.


Charles Wynn-Evans

Charles Wynn-Evans heads up Dechert's London employment practice. His work covers a broad range of employment-related areas, including the employment aspects of corporate transactions (such as flotations, mergers and acquisitions, and management buyouts) as well as issues such as redundancy, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, sex and race discrimination, industrial action, boardroom disputes, restrictive covenants, agreed terminations, tax issues and all kinds of employment-related litigation.

He writes regularly on employment law issues for journals such as Croner's Employer's Briefing, the Industrial Law Journal and the Employment Law Journal. He has contributed to a number of books on the subject and is the author of Blackstone's Guide to the Transfer of Undertakings Legislation (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is an accredited CEDR Mediator. Mr. Wynn-Evans graduated from the University of Bristol with a degree in law in 1988 and obtained the postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law from Merton College, Oxford, in 1990. He trained with the firm and was admitted as a solicitor in 1992. Mr. Wynn-Evans has been a partner at Dechert since 1997.