Paman Singh

Paman is a Partner in Weightmans’ Employment, Pensions and Immigration team and heads the firm’s Scottish employment practice.

He advises employers of all sizes, from owner-managed businesses to major national and international organisations, on the full spectrum of employment law issues. His practice combines day-to-day advisory work with high-value strategic projects and complex litigation. He also works with senior executives on appointments, exits, settlement arrangements, and restrictive covenant issues.

A dual-accredited specialist in Employment Law and Discrimination Law, Paman is one of only a small number of practitioners recognised by the Law Society of Scotland in both disciplines. As a Solicitor Advocate, he has rights of audience before the higher civil courts, which remains unusual among specialist employment lawyers.

Having spent more than a decade appearing before Employment Tribunals across the United Kingdom, he regularly acts in high-value and sensitive claims involving discrimination, whistleblowing, executive disputes, TUPE, collective consultation and unfair dismissal. He also advises employers on restructures, acquisitions, regulatory issues and workforce change projects. He also has experience of conducting litigation in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and appellate courts.

Paman was appointed as a fee-paid Employment Judge in Scotland in April 2026.

Following that appointment, he no longer conducts advocacy in Scotland but continues to accept instructions and appear in Employment Tribunals in England and Wales, and in the relevant tribunals in Northern Ireland.

As an accredited mediator, Paman is equally comfortable helping parties avoid litigation altogether. He firmly believes that the best employment disputes are often the ones that never reach a hearing, a view usually shared by anyone who has seen the size of a hearing bundle and the accompanying fee note.

Clients describe his advice as practical, commercially focused and refreshingly free from unnecessary legal jargon. His view is simple: if something can be explained clearly in English, it should be. The Latin can safely remain where it belongs, in old textbooks, court submissions and the occasional lawyer biography trying a little too hard.

Away from client work, Paman serves as Convenor of the Employment Law Committee of the Law Society of Scotland and teaches employment and discrimination law at both the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow. He enjoys working with future lawyers, not least because they are still at the stage of believing that employment law problems have neat answers and reasonable protagonists. He tries not to disabuse them of these notions too quickly.

He is also a sought-after speaker and trainer on workplace law developments and contributes to policy discussions on proposed legislative reform.

In the interests of full disclosure, Paman has previously won “Most Stylish Male Solicitor of the Year”. He notes this only because accuracy is important, although his colleagues continue to maintain that the competition cannot have been particularly fierce. He has chosen not to litigate the point, largely in the interests of proportionality.

Outside work, he enjoys competitive badminton, playing football and steadfastly holding on to an increasingly evidence-free belief that he may one day become a decent footballer himself. This belief has now outlasted several managers, a number of tactical systems and most of the available evidence.