Outer Temple Chambers

Barrister; Year of Call: 2021

Sapan Maini-Thompson practices in employment, discrimination, public law and professional discipline.

Sapan represents both Claimants and Respondents in statutory and commercial employment disputes. Between January and July 2025, Sapan undertook a secondment in the employment department of a leading London law firm with a focus on business protection and whistleblowing claims in the financial services sector.

Sapan was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel in his first year of eligibility. He represents government departments across a wide range of private and public litigation including employment, prison law, equalities, social welfare, data protection and immigration. His wider public law practice includes successfully defending the English Blackball Pool Federation in a high-profile claim for gender reassignment discrimination in April 2025. The matter now proceeds to appeal in the High Court.

Sapan maintains a keen academic interest in legal affairs and has written extensively for the UK Human Rights Blog, the New Law Journal and various other outlets.

Prior to joining the Bar, Sapan worked as a legal representative for the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU) and as a researcher for the Uyghur Tribunal.

English, French, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi

● Junior Counsel to the Crown (London C Panel)
● Employment Lawyers Appeals Advice Scheme (ELAAS)
● Employment Lawyers Association
● Industrial Law Society
● Education Lawyers Association
● Governor, Royal Star & Garter

After graduating from Oxford University in History & Politics, he came top of his year in his Master’s degree in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics before obtaining first-class marks in all papers during his LLM at University College London, specialising in labour law, comparative public law and the conflict of laws in commercial disputes. Sapan received a Queen Mother scholarship from Middle Temple.