Settlement Agreement .co.uk
About us
Our story
SettlementAgreement.co.uk was launched in 2013 by a national journalist. It’s dedicated to helping employees with settlement agreements. The site provides jargon-free guides, practical tools and access to specialist legal advice.
Founder and editor, Joanne O’Connell has written about legal and financial issues for over twenty years. She’s written for the Guardian, the Observer, the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and others. She’s also author of children’s novels, including Stitched Up (Macmillan, 2024) and Beauty and the Bin, writes about jobs and careers, and occasionally appears on television and radio. When Joanne was made redundant from a national newspaper way back in 2001, she realised how difficult it can be to understand a settlement agreement (which used to be known as a compromise agreement). All that jargon! All those long-winded terms and conditions! It’s not easy to sign off on a legal document – particularly when you’ve lost your job. Life’s stressful enough. Over the years, Joanne wrote about finances after redundancy for the national press and heard endless stories about people struggling to navigate the process. She made the decision to set up a site, with her own money and time, dedicated to offering free guides for employees and helping them access the right advice.
Over the past thirteen years, the site has helped thousands of people learn more about settlement agreements. The site still offers free-to-access guides and practical tools, and it also works with specialist employment solicitors to help everyone get the right advice just when they need it.
Team
Joanne O'Connell
Founder of settlementagreement.co.uk. journalist and writer.
John Hassells
Employment Solicitor, Head of Legal
Why us
Keep it simple
Settlement agreements contain legal gobbledygook. We make things clearer and easier to understand, with access to pain English guides and specialist solicitor advice.
Expert focus
As they say, focus on something and be an expert in that thing. Since 2013, settlementagreement.co.uk has been 100% focussed on settlement agreements (the name kind of gives it away).
Fast-turn around & sign-off
We specialise in making the process easy, speedy and efficient, so you can get the legal advice you need, from a qualified specialist solicitor on your settlement agreement.