Stuart Baxter provides written and oral testimony in cases of complex, high-value employment related litigation.

Stuart has over 30 years of human resources experience based in the financial services industry. He has international board level HR experience, with knowledge of both local employment terms and expatriate arrangements. A specialist in executive compensation and benefits strategies, including benchmarking individual roles against comparators, he has research expertise including total labour market analysis.

Currently engaged in HR consultancy projects across a wide range of industries and occupations, Stuart uses an extensive network and has an established international track record in preparing comprehensive employment reports. He maintains his expertise through continued consulting activities and memberships of relevant HR and/or expert professional bodies.

Stuart has been instructed by both claimant and defendant lawyers and as a single joint expert, to provide bespoke career employment and remuneration reports for personal injury, clinical negligence, divorce, unfair prejudice and employment litigation, worldwide. Stuart has given oral testimony in court and at employment tribunal and been deposed several times in the course of legal proceedings in the USA.

Areas of speciality include:

  • Preparing career employment and remuneration reports
  • Review of pre-claim employment history and remuneration
  • Quantum analysis of prospective career path(s)
  • Loss of career earnings and wages
  • Benchmarking remuneration for specific roles
  • Assessment of residual employment prospects and post-claim earnings
  • Estimation of future earnings potential using salary survey data
  • Employment and workplace discrimination
  • Sexual harassment
  • Racial discrimination
  • Age discrimination
  • Wrongful termination
  • Compensation, including claims for unequal pay, bonus and incentive scheme disputes
  • Employment legislation

Stuart’s expert witness memberships and awards:

  • Member of The Academy of Experts (MAE)
  • Member of The Expert Witness Institute (EWI)
  • Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL 1st tier expert)
  • Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness certificate (CUBS)
  • Member of the National Expert Witness Agency (NEWA)

Stuart’s professional memberships and awards:

  • Associate of The Institute of Financial Services
  • Affiliated member The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  • Member of The Association of Professional Pension Trustees
  • Pensions Management Institute Award in Pension Trusteeship