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Ruaraidh Fitzpatrick
Position
Clinical Negligence, Discrimination & Equality, Employment, Human Rights, Personal Injury, Regulatory
Career
Ruaraidh accepts instructions across all areas of Chambers’ work, including commercial, employment, discrimination, public law and human rights, regulatory and professional discipline, sports law, personal injury and clinical negligence.
Ruaraidh has experience acting for both Claimants and Respondents in the Employment Tribunal, County Court, High Court and acting as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal. He has acted in complex and high value discrimination cases. Ruaraidh has recently been instructed in a worker status and state immunity matter, representing a claimant security guard against a London based foreign embassy.
Ruaraidh also acts for claimants in personal injury and clinical negligence cases, including acting in fast track trials, assisting with catastrophic injury cases, and advising on merits and quantum.
Education
Prior to coming to the bar, Ruaraidh had a background in legal academics, tutoring in public and administrative law at the University of Glasgow and lecturing in employment, equalities, and human rights law at the University of Middlesex in Dubai. Ruaraidh previously worked as an intern at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law as a researcher on the centre’s ‘Constitutional Crossroads’ paper and as a Campaign Fellow on the 2012 Obama presidential re-election campaign.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1Ruaraidh Fitzpatrick – Cloisters ‘Ruaraidh is responsive, practical, detail-focused and good with clients. Willing to go the extra mile. An exceptional advocate.’
Cloisters ‘has an excellent employment law offering‘. The ‘very strong‘ team is ‘incredibly knowledgeable‘ and has an excellent track record for advising across the full spectrum of employment law matters. Discrimination cases form a key pillar of the practice, and members report an uptick in equal pay claims as well as undertaking larger volumes of sensitive investigations. Schona Jolly KC and Ruaraidh Fitzpatrick represented the applicant before the European Court of Human Rights in Buttet v UK, which considered the extent to which the law of state immunity can prevent foreign nationals from bringing proceedings against their own governments in the British courts. In another matter, Caspar Glyn KC and Adam Ohringer successfully acted for an employer before the Employment Tribunal in a claim concerning the dismissal of care home employees who declined COVID-19 vaccinations. Key growth for the set includes Sheryn Omeri KC and Akua Reindorf KC taking silk in March 2023, and Andrew Watson joined the team in June 2023.