Vicky Milner

Overview

Vicky joined Viberts in 2020. She is widely recognised as the “go to” person for Jersey employment law. She specialises in high profile and complex matters, including Royal Court appeals of Tribunal decisions and cases involving directors of international trust businesses and other key employees. Vicky advises senior executives, private businesses and public sector entities on all aspects of employment law. She is regularly sought after to speak on and quoted in relation to employment issues affecting the Island, including in the 2019 Gender Pay Gap Scrutiny Review Panel. She has acted as an expert witness on Jersey law in the High Court of Justice of England & Wales.

Vicky has specialised in employment law since 2001 and her experience includes successful litigation in ground-breaking areas, such as challenging the powers of the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal and testing the geographical scope of Jersey law in relation to offshore employment. She represented The Law Society of Jersey in a case raising discrimination and human rights issues in connection with admission to the Jersey Bar. She has previously appeared in Jersey’s Mental Health Review Tribunal advising on issues concerning the mental health and mental capacity of senior personnel. Vicky has been Chair of Digital Jersey’s Regulation & Legislation Technical Action Group, Jersey’s Representative for the Employment Lawyers Association (“ELA”) and a long-standing member of the Institute of Directors’ Industries Sub-Committee.

Vicky is recognised in the ‘Hall of Fame’ and as a ‘Leading Individual’ by the Legal 500 UK 2022 edition and the Legal 500 UK 2021 edition. She is also recognised in ‘Band 1’ in Employment by the Chambers UK 2021 edition.