Emma-Louise Hewitt

Emma is a partner and head of our Employment team.  She is also recognised as a leading partner in the Legal 500 directory.

Emma advises both businesses and individuals in complex high-value and business critical matters involving a broad range of employment issues including:

• Disciplinary and grievance procedures and processes.
• Re-structuring and redundancy.
• Employment Tribunal Claims
• Negotiating exit packages and settlement agreements.
• Drafting contracts, handbooks, policies and procedures.

Emma has strong and longstanding relationships with many of her clients.  She is technically excellent, incredibly supportive and always looks to achieve the very best outcome, getting to grips with complex detail in a matter from the outset.  Emma is known for her strategic, realistic and commercially grounded approach.

She works with a diverse range of sectors including automotive, professional services, hospitality, recruitment, engineering, manufacturing, care, retail and logistics.

Superb legal service from Sydney Mitchell and Emma-Louise Hewitt

Emma-Louise Hewitt provided me with extremely professional legal and employment advice. Very pleased with the prompt responses and clear and concise guidance, which enabled me to make an informed decision. Thank you Emma, greatly appreciated.

Redundancy Advice

Although only a relatively brief phone call with Emma, I found her to be friendly and knowledgeable with a nice personality and patience
Made the end of this difficult process a bit easier!

Support with employment issues

From my first phone call and face-to-face meeting I knew I was in safe hands. Emma was understanding and approachable throughout. The advice she gave was both professional and honest, and I had full confidence she would represent my interests well. I greatly appreciated her support and council throughout the process and would, without question, use her services again.