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Claire Nolan
practical experience
Claire Nolan is an Associate at ENS in the Employment practice.
She specialises in Employment Law – Commercial and Litigation.
Claire has gained experience advising public and private corporations as well as individual clients in various industries ranging from transportation, healthcare, pension and provident funds, financial, insurance, retail and manufacturing as well as the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants on a broad variety of employment law, regulatory and civil litigation related issues.
Claire has drafted executive-level employment contracts, settlement and retrenchment agreements, as well as workplace policies and provided advice on the implementation thereof, specifically in relation to disciplinary and harassment matters. She has conducted research and opinion work in various aspects of labour law, amendments to and implementation of labour law legislation. She also has significant experience in conducting due diligence exercises and advising clients on transfers of business as a going concern. In addition, Claire has assisted in training seminars on internal disciplinary hearings and managing poor performance and ill-health, the basic conditions of employment and other employment-related topics. Claire has also assisted in a number of prosecutions for the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in relation to professional misconduct cases.
Claire has been involved in a number of litigious matters at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), Bargaining Councils and Labour Court and assisted clients in matters at the Magistrates Court, Labour Appeal Court, High Court and Constitutional Court. Moreover, Claire has been involved in providing advice to public and private clients in various African jurisdictions, including Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya.
qualifications
- BA (Psychology and Law) (University of the Witwatersrand)
- LLB (cum laude) (University of the Witwatersrand)
- Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa
