Corinne Aldridge

Publications & Press Highlights

• FCA case: how should HR handle flexible working requests? – Quoted in Personnel Today, January 2024
• I sued my boss for making me walk home late – Quoted in The Sunday Times, December 2023
• Taxpayers face footing extra holiday pay bill for civil servants after legal ruling – Quoted in The Telegraph, October 2023
• Clubbing to candlemaking: how companies are handling #MeToo – Quoted in The Times, April 2023
• Legal teams expect a rise in HR issues in 2023 – Quoted in HR Magazine, January 2023
• The rise of the ‘sugar boss’: Employers are showing appreciation to their staff by splashing out on lavish gifts—but does that cross a line? – Quoted in Fortune Magazine, January 2023

Recent Work

• Corinne has recently been acting for a senior executive against a major bank in relation to a whistle blowing claim, achieving a favourable resolution after having issued employment tribunal proceedings.
• She has recently been advising an employer client in relation to unfair dismissal, age discrimination and whistleblowing claims. The dispute was resolved and litigation was avoided.
• She has also recently been advising an employer client in relation to a collective redundancy exercise, assisting the client to deal with the matter in an orderly and considerate way, while at the same time minimising any legal risks.

Some notable cases include:

• GFI Group v Eaglestone: a leading High Court case in relation to the enforcement of garden leave clauses
• Barton v Investec: a leading Employment Appeal Tribunal case in relation to sex discrimination with regard to bonuses
• Tullett Prebon v El Hajjali: a High Court case concerning liquidated damages clauses in employment contracts
• Western Union Services v Anastasiou: an Employment Appeal Tribunal case in relation to whistleblowing

Professional Societies & Memberships

• Association of Partnership Practitioners
• The Employment Lawyers Association
• International Bar Association
• Discrimination Law Association (DLA)
• Industrial Law Society (ILS)

Corinne is a trustee of a children’s charity, Kids’ City, which aims to advance the education and development of school-age children through providing recreational and educational activities outside school. Corinne is also a Chair of Governors for a local school.

What clients and directories have said

“Corinne was thorough but also caring and highly emotionally intelligent.”
(Chambers and Partners, 2025)

“Corrine was very capable, both technically and practically.”(Chambers and Partners, 2025)

“Corinne provides strategic advice and is unflappable. She is a very experienced, strategic lawyer.”(Chambers and Partners, 2025)

“Corrine has been doing this for ages. She instantly knows the way forward and knows the right answer straight away.”
(Chambers and Partners, 2025)

“Corinne Aldridge is my key contact and “go to” for complex and/or difficult partnership and/or employment law advice. She is undoubtedly extremely competent and is able expertly to combine legal analysis with pragmatism. Corinne and her team are also well able to respond to more discrete requests for advice.”
(The Legal 500, 2025)

“Corrine was very capable, both technically and practically.”
(Chambers and Partners, 2025)

“Corinne was thorough but also caring and highly emotionally intelligent.”
(Chambers and Partners, 2025)

“Corinne is a great communicator. She is pragmatic, accessible and available.”(Chambers and Partners, 2024)

“I just wanted to say that the good position that I feel in now is to a very large degree due to the excellent advice that I received from you … I felt at all times that you were giving me excellent dispassionate professional advice while completely alert to my personal circumstances.”
(Senior executive client)

“She is a very experienced employment lawyer. You know you will get good judgement from Corinne.”
(Chambers and Partners, 2024)

“Corinne Aldridge is a great litigator and adviser. She handles very sensitive cases calmly, sensibly and with good judgment. Clients can have confidence in her advice.”
(The Legal 500, 2024)

“Corinne sees straight through all the emotion that surrounds employment issues and gets right to the heart of the matter.”
(Chambers UK, A Client’s Guide to the UK Legal Profession)

“I have referred many colleagues and friends to Corrine over more than a decade for a wide variety of matters, and the feedback has been stellar in every instance. She is truly committed to putting her clients’ interests first, and is extraordinarily deft at balancing empathy for the client and their circumstances with realism about the cost/benefit of their potential claims. I have absolute confidence in Corinne’s advice and she is always my first call and number one recommendation for handling employment claims.”
(Legal 500 UK 2023)

“I felt at all times that you were giving me excellent dispassionate professional advice while completely alert to my personal circumstances.”
(A client, Spear’s 500, 2023)

“She’s very good – pragmatic and commercial. She gets good results and is very experienced.”
(Legal 500 2020)

Leaders League -Labor & Employment – Representation of employers/Representation of senior executives 2024

• Rank : Valuable Practice
• Rank: Excellent