Ian Abel
Director at Ward Hadaway
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Abel is an accomplished employment law director based in Leeds with nine years of senior-level experience and a track record of leading employment teams across law firms and in-house at NEC Software Solutions. He specialises in tribunal representation, large-scale restructurings, TUPE during corporate acquisitions, and pragmatic HR-facing legal advice, combining commercial sensibility with courtroom experience. Ian has progressed from solicitor and head of employment roles to senior associate and now director, demonstrating strength in both client-facing strategy and operational people-law matters. Known for tailoring risk-aware solutions to complex reorganisations, he brings practical implementation insight gained from working inside a software group as well as in private practice. His background suggests an ability to bridge legal technicalities and business realities, making him a go-to adviser for employers navigating contentious or transformational change.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
LPC, Law, Commendation, LPC, Law, Commendation at BPP Law SchoolQueen Elizabeth SchoolLLB, Law, 2:1, LLB, Law, 2:1 at University of Exeter
Github Skills (23)
solver10
parallel-computing10
equation10
computational-science9
nonlinear9
hpc9
ode-solver9
relation9
hpc-applications9
sundials9
sensitivity-analysis9
scientific-computing9
amr9
scalable9
c-library9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ianabel/MCTrans
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
0D Scoping tool for transport in centrifugally-confined mirror machines. Used for the CMFX project.
Contributions:114 commits, 12 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 4 months
transportmachines
ianabel/MaNTA
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:146 pushes, 16 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
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