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Saul Margo

Called to bar 2005

Clerk Chris Gittins Tel: 020 7353 6381
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Saul receives instructions across all areas of chambers' practice with a particular focus upon employment, pensions and commercial work. In March 2010, Saul was appointed to the Attorney General's C panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.

Saul's employment practice includes regular appearances in the Employment Tribunal in contested final hearings, case management discussions and pre-hearing reviews. He has particular experience of cases involving all aspects of discrimination, unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal, TUPE and contractual disputes. Saul appeared for the successful employee in the Employment Appeal Tribunal case of St Ives Plymouth Ltd v Haggerty (UKEAT/0107/08/MAA). Saul has recently been instructed as junior to Andrew Short QC in an 8 week equal pay case starting in October 2010. He is a member of ELA and is standing counsel to the British Association of Journalists.

Saul has a growing practice in financial services law and regulation. He has written a chapter in a book on financial services, banking law and regulation produced members of chambers' FSG which is to be published by Butterworth's in February 2010.

Saul has experience of a wide range of commercial and contractual disputes ranging from sports contracts to hire purchase and consumer credit agreements. Saul was instructed as junior counsel in a claim against DEFRA worth over £5m which was brought in the Technology and Construction Court. The case ran over an 18-month period during 2007, 2008 and 2009 before the case settled just prior to trial.

During that period, the case generated four important interlocutory judgments from the trial judge, Ramsey J, each of which now features in discussions on the relevant areas of law by practitioners and commentators: the validity of a purported assignment of an insolvent company's causes of action; see [2007] EWHC 2870 (TCC) & [2008] EWHC 238 (TCC); important and ground-breaking issues of implied waiver of legal professional privilege; see [2008] EWHC 3079 (TCC); the extent to which what happens at a mediation is covered by confidentiality, the without prejudice cloak or is otherwise privileged, whether the parties can agree between themselves to waive any confidentiality or privilege in the mediation and whether (and if so in what circumstances) the mediator can be compelled by one of the parties to give evidence about events at the mediation; see [2009] EWHC 1102 (TCC).

Saul was instructed for all these hearings and due to the unavailability of his leader conducted the final of these hearings himself. The Defendant was represented by Queen's Counsel. He has rights of audience in the Dubai International Financial Court (DIFC) and is a member of COMBAR.

With an expanding pensions practice, Saul was seconded to the office of the Pensions Ombudsman for 5 months in 2008. During that time he advised the Pensions Ombudsman and the Deputy Pensions Ombudsman on all aspects of pensions law and assisted in the drafting of Determinations and the review of jurisdictional decisions. He has conducted hearings in front of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator on behalf of companies and has recently advised a London Council in respect of its liability to pay former employees a deferred pension from the Local Government Pension Scheme. Saul has recently advised a trade union in relation to the proposed closure by the Trinity Mirror Group of its final salary pension scheme. He is a member of the Association of Pensions Lawyers.

A regular advisor on quantum and liability in personal injury matters, Saul appears in both interlocutory and contested liability and quantum hearings. He has particular experience of fast track trials involving slip and trips, accidents at work and occupiers' liability.

Areas of practice
Employment & Discrimination, Financial Services, Pensions, Personal Injury, Public Law, Discipline & Regulatory, Commercial & Business,  Professional Negligence, Public Access