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Daniel Sterling, Partner, Disputes & Employment at SCT Legal Associates

Partner, Disputes & Employment

Daniel Sterling

Daniel represents employers and senior executives in sensitive exits, restructures, and tribunal proceedings. He is known for resolving matters quietly before they become litigation — and for being fully prepared when they do not.

About Daniel

Daniel represents employers and senior executives in sensitive exits, restructures, and tribunal proceedings. He is known for resolving matters quietly before they become litigation — and for being fully prepared when they do not.

He advises boards on the moments where employment law and reputation intersect: a whistleblowing report, a senior departure, a collective consultation that has to run to a fixed timetable. His instinct is to fix the process early, because most claims are made or avoided in the first fortnight.

Daniel is a certified workplace investigator and regularly conducts independent investigations for organisations that need a defensible, arm's-length process.

Representative work

  • Delivered a 60-role restructure across a 400-employee retail group with no tribunal claims issued
  • Obtained undertakings within eleven days against a departing director poaching a six-person team
  • Led an independent investigation into whistleblowing allegations against a senior executive
  • Defended a multi-claimant discrimination claim to a full merits hearing, with claims dismissed

Experience

Career to date

  1. 2020 — present

    Partner, Disputes & Employment

    SCT Legal Associates

    Heads the contentious employment practice and the firm's workplace investigations offering.

  2. 2011 — 2020

    Employment Counsel

    Specialist employment practice

    Acted for employers in tribunal and High Court proceedings, including restrictive covenant injunctions.

  3. 2005 — 2011

    Associate, Litigation

    Regional litigation firm

    Broad commercial disputes practice with a growing employment focus.

Publications & speaking

Writing and talks

  • Collective consultation: building the timetable backwards

    SCT Legal Associates Insights · 2025

    Guide
  • Enforcing restrictive covenants without going to trial

    Employment Law Journal · 2024

    Article
  • Investigations that hold up under scrutiny

    HR Directors Forum · 2023

    Talk

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