Alfred Weiss

Call 2006

weiss@exchangechambers.co.uk

"He is at the top of his game."

Chambers and Partners 2026
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Employment

Alfred’s Employment practice is focused on High Court litigation involving business protection disputes concerning confidentiality, restrictive covenants, and database rights; bonus and earn out disputes; shareholder disputes with an employment related angle such as involving ‘bad leaver’ provisions.

He has a wealth of experience acting in Employment Tribunals; his current Tribunal practice is focused on highly complex matters such as public interest disclosure and discrimination allegations.

Alfred is ideally placed to deal with the interplay between commercial, insolvency and employment law.

Employment Cases

Examples of recent cases include:

Business protection

  • Acting for an environmental business successfully obtaining springboard relief against a former employee and the new employer in respect of misuse of confidential information concerning valuable business opportunities
  • Acting for a number of former employees defending allegations of misuse of confidential information by their former employer
  • Acting for an employee responding to an application for urgent injunctive relief relating to breaches of restrictive covenants and misuse of confidential information

Bonus and earn out disputes

  • Acting for a senior executive in the sports talent management industry claiming a disputed bonus
  • Acting for a company defending a claim by a senior employee for alleged entitlement to bonus and share options following a sale of the company. Pending High Court trial.

Employment Tribunal

  • Represented the Ministry of Justice in a 3 week hearing successfully defending at Tribunal allegations of whistleblowing detriment, victimisation, and disability discrimination
  • Represented a cosmetics company in a 5 day hearing successfully defending allegations of direct race discrimination
  • Represented a major bank in a 2 day preliminary hearing successfully rebutting the claimant’s allegations that he was a worker in a tripartite employment relationship