Our Services
We solve complex workplace challenges — ensuring legal compliance and empowering businesses with seamless, efficient workforce management.
For Employers & Employees
Expert employment law advice for both businesses and individuals — protecting your rights and ensuring compliance at every stage of the employment relationship.
For UK employers & International Founders
Strategic immigration support for UK businesses — helping you attract global talent, maintain compliance, and navigate an ever-changing visa landscape.
Retained & Project Support
Practical, commercially minded HR support for growing businesses — acting as an extension of your team to keep you compliant, consistent, and confident.
Need advice across multiple areas? Our specialist solicitors work across employment law, immigration, and HR — giving you joined-up legal support under one roof.
To prevent workplace issues from arising by implementing solid HR structures and documentation, promoting a proactive and compliant work environment.
Protect your values and reputation when problems arise, it is essential to implement proactive measures and strategic approaches
To help you make the right decisions at the right time, so that you can focus on running and growing your business.
The construction sector faces employment law and immigration challenges that are distinctive to the industry. A highly mobile workforce, extensive use of subcontractors and self-employed labour, project-based working patterns, and a significant reliance on overseas skills all create compliance pressures that generic employer advice rarely addresses adequately. Employment status: the construction sector’s biggest liability […]
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From 1 January 2027, the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims in the UK will reduce from two years to six months. This means that employees hired from July 2026 onwards will acquire unfair dismissal protection after only six months’ service.
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Redundancy law in the UK is in the middle of a period of significant change. The April 2026 increase in the protective award, the rise in the unfair dismissal compensatory award cap, and the upcoming changes to collective redundancy rules in 2027 all create a landscape where the financial and legal risk of getting a redundancy exercise wrong has never been higher.
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Introduction The UK Government has launched a consultation that could significantly expand workplace rights for unpaid carers and parents of seriously ill children.
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Care homes and domiciliary care providers have faced more Home Office enforcement action than almost any other sector over the past eighteen months.
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Under the new UK “Day 1” SSP rules (from 6 April 2026), Statutory Sick Pay is payable from the first qualifying day of sickness absence rather than after 3 waiting days. For an employee working: 37.5 hours per week £15 per hour roughly £27,000 per year their average weekly earnings are about: £27,000 ÷ 52 […]
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Senior Solicitor / Managing Director
"Coordinating employment law compliance, HR practices, immigration, and global mobility poses a complex web of legal and operational hurdles for employers and employees alike.
Davenport Solicitors offers integrated services, streamlining legal compliance, HR strategies, immigration processes, and global mobility initiatives for seamless international workforce management."
