Outer Temple Chambers

Personal Injury, Employment

Jessica specialises in employment law and personal injury.

She is ranked in the Legal 500 as a Rising Star in employment law (2025 and 2026). She is particularly experienced in discrimination and whistleblowing claims. She is routinely instructed as sole counsel in multi-day employment trials, and in preliminary hearings covering issues such as interim relief, worker status, jurisdiction and time limits.  Jessica appeared in the EAT as junior counsel for the successful claimants in the case of British Airways plc v Rollett & Others [2024] IRLR 891, in which it was established that claimants without the relevant protected characteristic could bring claims under s19 Equality Act. She appeared in the Court of Appeal as junior counsel for the appellants in Abel Estate Agent Ltd & Ors v Reynolds [2026] ICR 239, the leading case on the implications of failure to comply with ACAS early conciliation.

In personal injury she has a focus on employer liability and occupational illness claims (asthma, mesothelioma and other asbestos-related disease). She has a particular interest in group litigation and is currently instructed as junior counsel on behalf of multiple South African claimants suffering from asbestos-related diseases as a result of living near asbestos mines. Jessica was junior counsel in the Court of Appeal in Cuthbert v Taylor Woodrow [2024] EWCA Civ 244, a leading case concerning the employer’s duty of care in relation to asbestos exposure pre-1965.

Called: 2021

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Jessica graduated from the University of Cambridge with First Class honours. She achieved a Distinction in the GDL and BVS. She was awarded scholarships by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the City Law School and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.