Expert Witness Services: Manufacturing, Wrongful Dismissal
Context
A top 10 UK law firm advised on a wrongful dismissal claim involving a divisional managing director within a UK manufacturing business undergoing operational change.
Sector Complexity
Manufacturing businesses often operate with evolving structures, cost pressures, and shifting performance expectations. This can create ambiguity between underperformance and organisational change, particularly at senior leadership level.
Brief
Assess whether the dismissal aligned with market practice, contractual expectations, and reasonable executive level process.
Approach
Novo reviewed the original recruitment process, role scope, performance expectations, and internal governance. Benchmarking was carried out against comparable UK and European manufacturing leadership appointments.
Outputs
A structured expert report was delivered, supported by a written witness statement outlining market norms, process expectations, and deviations from standard practice.
Outcome
Our report identified clear inconsistencies between expected and actual process. This created leverage in mediation and contributed to a commercially favourable resolution for the claimant. The client valued the clarity and practical grounding of the evidence.
