Stuart Harrison

Stuart Harrison is an Executive at ENS in the Employment practice. His practice focuses on Employment Law, specialising in all aspects of employment law.

His practice includes administrative law, executive appointments and dismissals, compensation and remuneration, employment data protection, as well as union recognition, collective bargaining and restraint of trade matters. He has acted and appeared for clients in various litigious matters in the Labour Courts, High Court and the CCMA, and has conducted extensive employee eviction litigation in the Land Claims Court.

Stuart's experience includes global mobility arrangements and drafting split employment contracts for employees rendering services in multiple jurisdictions, litigation against former executives for the recovery of unauthorised expenditure incurred in breach of fiduciary duties, test case litigation on second generation outsourcing, drafting agreements for clients with labour brokers and the formation of employers' organisations, and litigating on discrimination law. He has also worked extensively on the employment law consequences relating to mergers and acquisitions.

He is the co-author of chapters on South African labour law for a number of international comparative employment law publications, including the Littler Mendelson Guide to International Employment and Labour Law and the Law Business Research's Employment Law Review. He is a past co-chairman of the International Bar Association's Discrimination and Equality Law Committee. He holds a BA and an LLB from the University of Cape Town and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa.

He is recognised by Chambers Global Guide, The Legal 500 EMEA (in its Hall of Fame for Employment), Best Lawyers and Who's Who Legal for Employment and Labour in South Africa.