Jo Seery is a highly experienced senior employment rights solicitor who is in charge of professional support for more than 100 colleagues in her specialism, throughout Thompsons Solicitors’ 12 offices in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Based in the firm’s London office, Jo retains personal responsibility for a small number of strategic cases covering all areas of employment law.
Jo is responsible for responding to government consultation exercises. She also has responsibility for liaising with our union clients, nationally and regionally, on training and education.
She writes regularly for the firm’s Employment Law Review and for union journals and is a frequent speaker at the Institute for Employment Rights and TUC events.
Jo sets great store by Thompsons’ strong links with the labour movement and campaigns. She is committed to enabling trade unions to use labour and employment law to develop a collective response to the challenges workers and trade union members experience in the workplace
Jo worked for a number of unions, including ASLEF, GPMU and BIFU before joining Thompsons as a legal assistant in 1999. She qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and is Thompsons’ national Employment Rights professional support lawyer, based at our Congress House office.
Away from work, Jo enjoys yoga and the gym.
Jo's case experience
- Represented the UCU in an Employment Appeal Tribunal which held that Lancaster University had failed to comply with its obligation to consult collectively under Section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 when it sent out lists of fixed-term staff who were to be made redundant.
- Represented a client in a case against Cheshire Country Council in which the Court of Appeal held that the reversal of the burden of proof in Section 54A of the Race Relations Act 1976 did not extend to cases where the complaint was about victimisation.
Professional membership
Member of the Professional Support Lawyers Network. Jo is also a member of Liberty, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Greater Manchester Law Centre.