Profile

Amanda is a Partner in our Manchester employment team. She specialises in the conduct of employment matters, acting for employers and insurers, as well as advising on HR-related aspects of GDPR and data protection. Amanda is widely praised for her commercial and pragmatic approach.

An experienced Employment Tribunal advocate, Amanda conducts contentious employment matters across the whole spectrum of employment law, including unfair dismissal, breach of contract, complex discrimination cases, industrial relations and TUPE-related claims.

Amanda also supports commercial clients on non-contentious employment-related issues, operating employment law helplines advising on general day-to-day issues as well as providing more strategic advice including supporting HR professionals and line managers in the conduct of disciplinary and grievance issues, TUPE transfers, business reorganisations and redundancies, managed exits and settlement agreements, managing attendance and performance, dignity at work and data protection.

A key part of Amanda’s role is ensuring businesses are kept up to date in terms of changes in legislation and case law and importantly, the impact those changes may have.  She is an experienced trainer, writing and delivering both bespoke training sessions for clients and open public courses on a wide range of employment law issues and updates.

More recently Amanda has also been conducting GDPR / data protection audits for clients, advising on compliance issues as well as conducting training and undertaking contract and policy reviews.

Amanda is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Qualifications

  • Qualified in England and Wales in 2000
Amanda Beaumont is very approachable and always gives sound legal and commercial advice.

Market recognition

  • Next generation partner and recommended lawyer for 'Employment (North West)'
    "Amanda Beaumont really impressed. She is very approachable and always gives sound legal and commercial advice."
    "Amanda has dealt with a number of very challenging cases for us over the last twelve months and in every case she has achieved excellent results."
    The Legal 500 UK 2024
  • Next generation partner and recommended lawyer for 'Employment (North West)'
    "Amanda Beaumont has excellent client care and gives professional and expert advice and representation".
    "Amanda Beaumont is super responsive, has a great understanding of ET litigation as she is a solicitor advocate, and importantly, given the brutality of work as a litigation lawyer, she is endlessly cheerful as well as very amusing".
    The Legal 500 UK 2023
  • Recommended lawyer for 'Employment (North West)'
    The Legal 500 UK 2022
  • Recommended lawyer for 'Employment: employers (London)'
    The Legal 500 UK 2022
  • Recommended lawyer for 'Employment (North West)'
    “Amanda Beaumont is truly an excellent and intuitive employment lawyer. I’d want her on my team.”
    The Legal 500 UK 2021
  • A Recommended Lawyer for 'Employment (North West)'               
    The Legal 500 UK 2019/20