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Ross Beaton
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Ross Beaton specialises in employment and discrimination law. He is also currently instructed for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner on the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
Ross has a particular interest in cases involving medical care. Prior to specialising in employment and discrimination work, Ross also maintained a busy clinical negligence practice and regularly dealt with cases involving complex medical issues which were valued up to seven figures.
He is experienced in dealing with claims for psychiatric injury said to have been caused by stress at work and has settled such cases, generally brought in the civil Courts, for six figure sums when acting as sole counsel.
Ross has appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal – Sean Thomas Leacy v Building Craft College [2022] EAT 59
Ross also enjoys working on large scale matters as part of a team, as he presently does for the Metropolitan Police. In 2018, he worked as an in-house barrister at the Government Legal Department, primarily dealing with large scale abuse litigation arising out of military operations abroad.
Outside his work in chambers, Ross is committed to pro bono work with various charities and generally to using his legal skills to help disadvantaged people. He is a long-standing trustee of the Brixton Advice Centre. He is a case reviewer for Advocate, for whom he also continues to take appropriate cases on a pro bono basis. He is also an Advocacy Trainer for Inner Temple.
Career
- Called 2013, Inner Temple
- Pupillage 1 Crown Office Row, London, 2013-14
- Lamb Chambers, London, 2014-17
- Government Legal Department, 2018
- 7 Bedford Row, 2019-present
Languages
- French (fluent)
- German (intermediate)
- Arabic (intermediate)
Memberships
- Inner Temple
- Employment Lawyers’ Association
- UK Environmental Law Association
- Industrial Law Society
- Administrative Law Bar Association
Education
- University of Oxford, BA, Philosophy & Modern Languages, 2006
- Sciences Po, Paris, International Diploma, History & Theory of Politics, 2007
- University of Oxford, MPhil, International Relations, 2011
- City University London, GDL, 2012
- Kaplan Law School, London, BPTC, 2013