Barrister: Professor William Rees

Year of Call: 1973

Inn of Court: Inner Temple (LLM Cantab)

Practice Groups:

• Regulatory
• Immigration and Nationality
• Employment
• Commercial and Civil

Areas of Practice:

• Company Law
• Financial Services Regulation
• Employment Law
• Public Law especially Human Rights
• EU
• Education
• Higher Education
• Immigration and Mental Health
• Sports Law
• Part time ACAS Arbitrator
• Direct Access Qualified

Awards and Scholarships:

• Evan Lewis Thomas
• Wright Rogers Scholarships
• Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship
• Profumo Scholarships (Inner Temple)

Bill Rees is a senior, highly experienced and practical corporate/commercial, employment and public law barrister. Since 1996 Bill has been regularly appearing before various judicial fora to Court of Appeal level, including tribunals (notably ETs, EAT, AIT/formerly IATs, and MHRTs) all over England and Wales, and occasionally Scotland. 

He has had extensive experience of legal research and university teaching as a Lecturer, Fellow and Professor. He has held various Professorships of Law in England and the USA. He has published widely on Company Law, Financial Services Regulation, Employment Law and Public Law as well as broadcasting and lecturing extensively on these topics. He has in recent years appeared quite regularly on Legal Training TV. He has also served as a part-time member of the judiciary for some 9 years of his career as well as having been an independent expert to the European Commission in Brussels on redundancy and discrimination law. He was the founder of the Journal of ADR, Mediation and Negotiation at the turn of the century. 

Earlier, Bill had experience of working in senior positions in several 'City' law firms and has served as Head of a University Law School, which he coupled with holding the Stephenson Harwood Professorship of Comparative Law. He has been a Visiting Professor in Comparative Labour Law at the University of Iowa, USA. He was successively the McKenna and then the Field Fisher Waterhouse Visiting Professor of Business Law at Brunel University, and Consultant to the Law Society and the Department of Employment on Financial Services Regulation.

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