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Employment

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Nine Chambers
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Kings Chambers
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Exchange Chambers
St John’s Buildings

Leading Silks

Paul Gilroy KC – Nine Chambers ‘Paul is great on his feet – a real street fighter with tactical nous. He is excellent in cross-examination and great with clients.’
Simon Gorton KC – Exchange Chambers

Leading Juniors

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James Boyd – Kings Chambers ‘James is an excellent advocate, one of the best. He has a great manner with clients, explains the law in a non-legal way and gives them confidence that they are in great hands.’
Martin Budworth – Kings Chambers
David Campion – Nine Chambers ‘David is excellent at managing claims with many witnesses and voluminous bundles to the satisfaction of the employment tribunal. Keeping tribunals onside is key to getting the best possible outcomes, and David’s outcomes are excellent. He is able to limit cross-examination to the key issues in the claim. He is not flashy or aggressive which works very well with claimants with disabilities in particular. He is a very effective advocate.’
Paras Gorasia – Old Square Chambers ‘Paras is exceptionally strong in his approach to assessing key battle grounds within factually dense and legally complex high-value claims. His service levels and response times exceed expectations.’
Nigel Grundy – Nine Chambers ‘Nigel is excellent in his area of expertise. He is extremely knowledgeable, personable and professional.  Nigel is able to review copious amounts of information quickly to get up to speed on any case referred to him. He has no weaknesses at all.’
Catherine Knowles – Exchange Chambers ‘Catherine is a highly effective advocate, extremely impressive in a trial, and incredible in cross-examination.’
Anisa Niaz-Dickinson – Kings Chambers ‘Anisa is great at getting into the details of cases and conducting robust cross-examination. She is also extremely calm under pressure. Anisa is able to handle particularly complex cases against difficult claimants and really put the clients at ease.’
Louise Quigley – Nine Chambers ‘Louise has exceptional client rapport. She possesses a commanding understanding of complex cases and legal issues, and demonstrates formidable advocacy skills time and time again. Louise is also approachable and easy to work with.’
Jason Searle – St John’s Buildings 
Amy Smith – Nine Chambers ‘Amy is an excellent advocate. She is always well-prepared and highly knowledgeable, and is also great with clients. She is strongly recommended.’
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Lena Amartey – Nine Chambers ‘Lena is fantastic with clients who all respond very well to her. She is a tenacious and thorough advocate. One of her real strengths is the ability to adapt her advocacy style depending on the kind of claimant. She is also always thoroughly prepared and inspires confidence in clients.’
Stefan Brochwicz-Lewinski – Nine Chambers ‘Stefan is an exceptionally talented advocate. He is incredible to watch in court: quick thinking, articulate and persuasive. He always performs brilliantly in court and puts clients in the best possible position they can be in.’
Paul Draycott – Doughty Street Chambers 
Annette Gumbs –St John’s Buildings ‘Annette has an analytical and detailed approach to cases which benefits her clients. She is incisive in cross-examination and sticks to the big and/or best points. Her closing submissions are concise and to the point which furthers her clients’ cases.’
Jamie Jenkins – St John’s Buildings 
Ghazan Mahmood – St John’s Buildings 
Katie Nowell – Nine Chambers ‘Katie is highly intelligent and cuts through to the substantive issues very quickly. She is very thorough in her preparation, is accessible for instructing solicitors and easily puts clients at ease. She is an excellent advocate, persistent and effective in cross-examination and clear in submissions.’
Scott Redpath – Exchange Chambers ‘Scott is approachable, and possesses a wealth of specialist knowledge.’
David Tinkler – Exchange Chambers ‘David is a brilliant barrister. He is really level-headed and down-to-earth which is invaluable when dealing with lay clients and witnesses, and he has a wonderful ability to ensure they remain calm in what for some is their first time in a court of law.’
Ben Williams – Kings Chambers ‘Ben is a go-to counsel. He is very knowledgeable, down to earth, approachable and good with clients. He is also very good on his feet. Ben is always willing to go above and beyond and provides fantastic support.’
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Carlo Breen – Nine Chambers
David Flood –St John’s Buildings
Laura Gould – Old Square Chambers ‘Laura is pragmatic and diligent. She tailors her work to the needs of the individual and is great with the clients. She gets amazing results every time. Laura has great knowledge of NHS clients and industry-specific matters.’
Bruce Henry – Kenworthy’s Chambers
Sarah Johnson – Kenworthy’s Chambers
Laura Kaye – Nine Chambers 'Laura is an exceptional barrister. She is polite and courteous and knows how to challenge either the tribunal or claimant in the correct and most impactful way. She is robust when required (but only where the situation requires it). Her legal knowledge and advocacy are excellent.'
Robert Lassey – Nine Chambers ‘Rob is brilliant at getting into the details of cases and dealing with the twists and turns of litigation. He also makes powerful submissions and his client care is outstanding.’
Rachael Levene – Nine Chambers ‘Rachael has superb understanding of the law and can apply it to the facts in a case with great skill combined with her standout advocacy skills. Tactically astute, Rachael knows when to play the best cards to achieve the best outcome for the client. She is thorough and engages with instructing solicitors proactively to ensure all are on the same page. She is a go-to barrister for tricky and complex tribunal claims.’
Richard McLean – Exchange Chambers ‘Richard’s strengths are his commercial approach and good client skills.’
Martin Mensah – Nine Chambers 'Martin is an extremely diligent and experienced advocate. He has patience with his instructing solicitors and their clients. He is very knowledgeable and makes you feel very much at ease in his position. Martin is honest and practical as well as helpful and solution-focused. He will always go the extra mile to help instructing solicitors and their clients.'
Sam Proffitt – Kings Chambers ‘Sam is an outstanding junior barrister. His prior experience as a solicitor places him well above others in terms of client care and commerciality. He is always well on top of his brief, and is creative and dynamic with his advocacy too. He really is tenacious in his approach, and gets results.’
Thomas Wood – St John’s Buildings ‘Thomas is very knowledgeable and is very good with clients. He will often go above and beyond in matters.’

Rising Stars

Rosie Kight – Kings Chambers ‘Rosie is a fantastic, tenacious, and robust advocate while remaining very courteous, and she is not unnecessarily aggressive. Rosie is brilliant with witnesses and has a gift of getting even the difficult judges on her side.’
Rachel Senior – Kings Chambers ‘Rachel is extremely pragmatic and commercial in her approach. Given her fairly recent call, Rachel is very knowledgeable and a quick thinker whilst on her feet.’

Employment in Regional Bar

Nine Chambers


Nine Chambers is widely praised as ‘the premier set in the North’ for employment work and offers a comprehensive service to a broad range of public and private sector clients, including employees, trade unions, employers, government departments, NHS trusts, and local authorities. Paul Gilroy KC’s extensive experience covers the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious work. He has been notably active of late in whistleblowing cases, for example defending The Christie NHS Foundation Trust against unfair dismissal and whistleblowing detriment claims by a nurse after she made allegations about a colleague’s fitness to practise.

Les références

‘Tony Morrissey and Julia Lanza stand out for their client service and relationship building skills.’

‘Julia Lanza is particularly helpful and demonstrates the high level of service offered at 9 St John’s Street. She works collaboratively, always being contactable and willing to help with client needs.’

‘Julia Lanza and Jane Slingsby are extremely helpful.’

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Kings Chambers


Kings Chambers remains ‘one of the go-to sets for employment work’ on the Northern Circuit and undertakes work on behalf of a broad range of claimants and respondents, including individuals and unions as well as NHS trusts, blue-chip companies, and high street brands. The group is noted for its work in the healthcare sector. Sam Proffitt’s growing experience includes several multi-week trials in the NHS, education, and retail sectors. Rachel Senior regularly represents clients in connection with whistleblowing and discrimination claims and has particular expertise in cases involving menopause and neurodiversity. Having transferred to the bar in 2018, Rosie Kight continues to build a strong employment law practice with an emphasis on discrimination claims in the County Court, Employment Tribunal, and Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Les références

‘Brandon Singh is always very responsive to any quote and availability requests.’

‘The clerks are excellent – they are responsive and helpful.’

‘The clerks are always very friendly and happy to help. They are always happy to discuss fees and price competitively.’

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Exchange Chambers


Exchange Chambers ‘has great strength in depth and is a go-to chambers for employment work in the North West‘. Catherine Knowles stands out for her experience handling discrimination and whistleblowing claims. She is noted particularly for her work for public sector respondents and her complementary personal injury practice means that claims involving complex medical evidence and issues regarding pension loss are areas of particular strength. Scott Redpath represents both public and private sector employers as well as employees and trade unions. David Tinkler stands out for his expertise in whistleblowing and discrimination claims. He is a first port of call for police forces, local governments, and private employers.

Les références

‘Neil Wright is very responsive, good at his job and an absolute pleasure to deal with.’

‘The clerks are excellent, they are able to provide appropriate recommendations as to what counsel we require for a particular matter, and respond to queries in a timely manner.’

‘The clerks are very responsive to emails.’

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St John's Buildings


St John’s Buildings ‘has a strong and respected employment set with many heavy hitters at its senior end and a good range of call throughout the set’. With particular experience in discrimination cases, Jason Searle continues to lead the team. Claims brought by doctors and NHS executives as well as claims involving social media use are also areas of strength for him. James Jenkins also focuses on discrimination cases as well as those in the education sector. Annette Gumbs has considerable experience handling discrimination, whistleblowing, and unfair dismissal claims, among others. She recently represented the claimant in Muir v AstraZeneca, who was found to have been unfairly and discriminatorily dismissed from his role as a senior scientist; the pharmaceutical company did not adequately take into account his mental health condition when dismissing him for bullying and harassing behaviour, the Tribunal ruled.

Les références

‘Rob Lang is able to give accurate fee quotes over the phone at the outset which assists with transparency and helps keep on top of budgets for clients.  Fees are often flexible depending on the individual needs of the clients.’

‘Xanthé Young is always very friendly and approachable.’

‘SJB has some helpful and responsive clerks! Chris Shaw and Mark Williams go the extra mile to ensure availability and have a realistic and fair view on fees.’

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