Legal CareerI have practised at Littleton Chambers since 1979.
Acting for both employers and employees, I have a predominantly employment practice with an emphasis on equal pay cases, and a significant experience of cases involving TUPE, human rights law, unfair dismissal , discrimination and the employment aspects of the reorganisation of companies. I also practice in the fields of judicial review and education, and have represented the University of Oxford in two high profile race discrimination cases. In the latter field I am named in the legal directories as “highly recommended”. I attach a list of the most important cases.
I am regularly cited by legal directories and the legal press for my intellectual and technical abilities including that I have “a brain the size of a planet” and am “customer friendly”. Chambers and Partners 2009 commented: The “extremely clever and cuttingly funny” John Bowers QC is recommended for his “second-to-none” interpretation of statutes.
I sat for some three years as a part time employment tribunal chairman and was then promoted to sit as a part time judge in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, but had to resign when the House of Lords decided that we could not both act as a part time judge in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and practise there. I have since 2002 sat as a Recorder on the Midland Circuit handling crime and civil work in places like Birmingham, Derby and Stoke.
