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Ms Sophia Berry
Work Department
Sophia specialises in employment and commercial law.
Position
Sophia specialises in employment and commercial law. Sophia has also been instructed on injunction applications in the High Court recently, both in her own right and as junior counsel. These include urgent applications resulting from breach of restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties and misuse of confidential information as well as an application to restrain threatened industrial action (Argos v Unite the Union [2017]). Sophia also has a keen interest in whistleblowing, equal pay and discrimination claims and has appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal on numerous occasions. Most recently, she successfully defended an important appeal relating to time limits in discrimination claims (Edomobi v La Retraite RC Girls School [2016] UKEAT 0180_16_1511).
Career
Called 2012; Initially qualified as a Solicitor at Linklaters LLP in 2011.
Sophia read law at Cambridge University and has a Masters degree in law from King’s College London. She was awarded the Dickson Poon School of Law Prize for attaining the highest marks of any student on the Masters course and the PwC Prize for the best dissertation written by a Masters student.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
Commercial Bar Association (Combar)
Chancery Bar Association (ChBA)
Education
LLM, King’s College London – Distinction
BA in Law, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge – 1
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sophia Berry – Littleton Chambers ‘Sophia is fantastic to deal with. She has a calm manner and produces clear and pragmatic advice.’
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sophia Berry – Littleton Chambers ‘An extremely effective strategist.’
Littleton Chambers is ‘a pre-eminent employment set with a wealth of talent at all levels‘. Among the silks, Gavin Mansfield KC‘s ‘legal knowledge is second to none‘, and has an excellent track record in advising on complex team move cases and business protection matters. David Reade KC is well known for his strength in handling equal pay litigation; Jeremy Lewis KC ‘has a breadth of knowledge of employment law that is unrivalled‘; and Nicholas Siddall KC is ‘a charming advocate, able to win over judges‘. In a recent work highlight, Adam Solomon KC, Niran de Silva KC, Sophia Berry and Charlotte Davies appeared in Jump Trading International Ltd v Couture and Verition Advisors (UK Partners) LLP, a business protection case involving the enforceability of a variable non-compete covenant – one which purported to grant the former employer discretion to determine a period between zero and twelve months- by means of an injunction. At the junior end of chambers, Lucy Bone handles a high volume of complex whistleblowing and discrimination claims, and Matthew Sheridan stands out as ‘a worthy opponent of any silk at the employment law Bar‘. The group was bolstered by the arrival of Tim Goodwin in November 2023.