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Helen Barney
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Practices exclusively in the field of employment law. She has comprehensive experience of all areas of employment law to include complex discrimination complaints, TUPE and contractual disputes. Her practice covers both claimant and respondent work, in the public and private sector. Clients include local authorities, NHS Trusts, police, multi-national companies, union and insurance supported claimants. She regularly appears before the ET in multi-day cases and in lengthy discrimination complaints. She has also appeared before the EAT in a variety of disputes and provides practical and pragmatic advice on employment matters.
Career
Called 1999 (Lincoln’s Inn).
Memberships
Discrimination Lawyers Association; ELBA.
Education
LLB (Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Helen Barney – No5 Barristers’ Chambers ‘Helen is extremely personable and always puts clients and witnesses at ease, notwithstanding the complexity of the legal issues at hand or the difficulties with a case. She is an excellent advocate.’
No5 Barristers’ Chambers is a ‘go-to chambers’ whose members advise across the full spectrum of employment law, including on cases involving unfair dismissal, TUPE transfers, redundancy, unlawful deductions from pay and trade union disputes. Practice head Mugni Islam-Choudhury is ‘commercial, practical and proportionate in his approach’; he acts for employers and employees in cases involving alleged discrimination. Charles Crow has ‘exceptional technical strength and grasp of detail’ and recently represented University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in a race and disability discrimination matter. Helen Barney successfully acted for Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board in a whistleblowing and victimisation claim.