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Grahame Anderson

Grahame is an expert employment and sports litigator with particular expertise in complex discrimination cases and High Court business protection disputes. He has appeared for individuals, companies and trade unions in some of the most important recent authorities. Grahame appears, led and unled, in the High Court and Employment Tribunals, as well as the appeal courts and domestic and international arbitral jurisdictions. He is known for being user friendly, personable and a formidable cross-examiner.Grahame was named one of the Legal 500’s Leading Juniors in both employment law and sports law. He is ranked among Chambers and Partners’ leading junior employment and sports barristers 2026.

Charlene Ashiru

Having been described by Legal 500 as a “future leader at the Employment Bar”, Charlene is a ‘go-to’ junior in relation to statutory employment work, workplace investigations and organisational culture reviews.Charlene’s cases often involve complex discrimination, whistleblowing and/or TUPE claims, and she regularly acts either for or against senior executives. Many of her employer clients are household names. Her investigations’ practice often involves sensitive, complex and high profile workplace investigations, including grievances, disciplinaries and/or appeals, as well as culture reviews of organisations more generally to identify and address areas for improvement. Charlene also accepts instructions as a CEDR accredited Mediator and CEDR Accredited Workplace Mediator.Charlene genuinely cares about her clients and achieving the best result for them. Charlene is well equipped for instructions at all stages of legal and arbitral proceedings, including appellate work. She is an excellent analyst and tactician and is particularly valued for her practical and sensible strategic advice at an early stage so as to shape the case going forwards.

Oliver Bacon

Oliver joined Littleton Chambers as a tenant in October 2026 upon the successful completion of his pupillage. Oliver accepts instructions in all of Littleton’s core practice areas, with a a specific interest in commercial disputes and High Court or statutory employment work.Prior to commencing pupillage, Oliver spent a year as a Teaching Fellow in Contract Law at SOAS, University of London.Oliver has long had an interest in employment law, which he studied at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Before joining Littleton, Oliver was employed by the University of Cambridge as a research assistant to Professor Simon Deakin, a leading expert in the field of employment law. This work involved applying the Cambridge Labour Regulation Index (CBR-LRI), a ‘leximetric’ methodology which provides a basis for the quantitative analysis of employment laws.

Bianca Balmelli

Bianca joined Littleton in October 2019 on completion of her pupillage. She accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ core practice areas.Before coming to the Bar, Bianca worked as an advocate in South Africa, where she qualiﬁed in 2013. There she advised clients on various commercial disputes, both in the High Court and in Arbitrations.

Lydia Banerjee

Lydia is a practical and skilled advocate who integrates her personal and professional experience into her work. As a Director and Company Secretary for over 15 years Lydia appreciates the business context in which disputes arise. As chair of trustees for a registered children’s charity, Lydia has first-hand experience of the financial, regulatory and ethical challenges which face modern organisations.It is no surprise that Lydia’s practice reflects her practical experience.Lydia’s employment work has a particular focus on disability discrimination but also incorporates all areas of tribunal disputes and high court action in relation to bonuses and restrictive covenants.Lydia’s injunctive work covers applications for freezing orders, delivery up, interim injunctions particularly in relation to restrictive covenants and other team move related orders.Lydia’s sports law work covers work in relation to agency fee disputes, equality issues and disciplinary proceedings.Lydia’s commercial practice covers disputes such as contractual interpretation, partnership disputes, shareholder disputes and directors’ duties.Lydia has significant experience with clients in the financial, insurance, legal and retail sectors.

Tom Barrington

Tom practices across Chambers’ core areas of expertise, including commercial, company, statutory employment, business protection and sporting disputes. He is comfortable acting as sole counsel or working as part of a wider counsel team.Before coming to the Bar, Tom represented members of the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union in employment disputes, assisted Professor Meg Russell and Dr Oliver Garner in their research on constitutional law and politics and taught debating in prisons with the charity Vocalise. As an undergraduate, he finished among the top performers in his faculty’s graduating cohort. He then received major scholarships from Gray’s Inn and the City Law School to study the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Course.

Sophia Berry

Shortlisted by Legal 500 as Employment Junior of the Year 2023 and by International Employment Lawyer as Junior Counsel of the Year 2023, Sophia is an expert employment and partnership litigator. She is both a tenacious trial advocate and a responsive team player who enjoys strategising with her instructing solicitors and clients from the outset of proceedings. Having initially qualified as a Solicitor at Linklaters, Sophia possesses the unique ability to communicate effectively with clients and to appreciate the commercial realities of litigation.In the employment field, Sophia has particular expertise in whistleblowing and equality law including equal pay disputes and in handling business protection disputes such as restrictive covenant and conﬁdential information disputes and disputes over bonuses, ﬁduciary duties and shareholdings. She is regularly instructed in complex Employment Tribunal matters and has developed significant experience of appellate advocacy through her employment work, including appearing in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Supreme Court as junior to Mohinderpal Sethi K.C. in landmark employment cases. Sophia is currently working on the independent inquiry into antisemitism at Goldsmiths, University of London with Mohinderpal Sethi K.C.. Sophia also advises on partnership disputes and has appeared for LLPs and partnerships and departing partners in a number of arbitrations.

Rajiv Bhatt

Rajiv Bhatt is a specialist commercial and employment law barrister. He is regularly instructed in heavyweight litigation and a number of his cases have a cross border element. His advocacy skills are consistently praised by the legal directories.Rajiv also has a particular interest in Sports law and is a panel member of Sports Resolutions.He is ranked as a leading junior by Chambers UK and The Legal 500. The legal directories describe Rajiv as: a “meticulous barrister”, “he gets into the detail and is relentless in cross-examination with it”, “he is confident and articulate before the tribunal, and unflustered under questioning. He has an eye for a good point. He’s brilliant on his feet”, “he gets into the detail, he’s there by your side the whole way, he provides commercial advice, he is hard-working and responsive, and he is very good on his feet” and with one client commenting in particular that “I’d always want him on my team”.

James Bickford Smith

James is an experienced trial advocate who has secured repeated directory recognition for his practice in commercial, partnership and employment work both in the UK and the Middle East. Domestically he is rated as a leading practitioner by both L500 and Chambers & Partners UK for employment and partnership. He has appeared in many leading cases across the fields of High Court and statutory employment work.He is head of Littleton’s Partnership Group and is regularly instructed in partnership/LLP arbitrations (LCIArb and professional body arbitrations). He has appeared in a number of significant appellate authorities in the banking, commercial contract and commercial fraud fields.Internationally, he is ranked as a Band One Junior for both commercial and employment work in the Middle East. His work there ranges from oil and gas contractual disputes to the first discrimination and senior executive claims to have proceeded to judgment in the courts of the DIFC and ADGM. He has particular expertise in employee competition disputes (including securing the first contested non-compete injunction in the DIFC). He was International Employment Law Junior of the Year in 2025.

Selwyn Bloch KC

Selwyn Bloch KC is a leading employment/commercial law Silk, specialising in business protection (in fields of employment, commercial and partnership law) as leading counsel, arbitrator, mediator, expert witness or draftsman. He has acted in numerous leading cases at all levels of the court system, typically involving (inter alia) restrictive covenants, confidential information, fiduciary duties, economic torts and conflict of laws. Selwyn advises on drafting of covenants and other business-protective provisions in all kinds of agreements. He has substantial experience in employment tribunal disputes. He has been a part time Employment Judge since 2000.

Lucy Bone

Lucy specialises in employment law and commercial litigation.Lucy has extensive experience of employmee competition and business protection disputes in the High Court, EAT and Court of Appeal. Lucy’s statutory employment practice emphasises high-value discrimination, private equal pay and whistleblowing, often with regulatory implications and international elements. Her commercial expertise encompasses contract disputes, company and shareholder matters, and civil fraud.Lucy is recognised for independent investigations and is one of just 25 barristers accoladed by Chambers & Partners for such work. Lucy is a CEDR qualified mediator and accepts instructions to mediate disputes across her practice areas. Continuously listed as a leading practitioner since 2005, Lucy has longstanding recognition and ranking across the Directories for employment. She was nominated as Employment Junior of the Year 2024 for Legal500 Bar Awards.

Hari Bravery

Hari joined Littleton Chambers as a tenant in October 2026 following the successful completion of his pupillage. Through his pupillage, Hari has gained experience across the full spectrum of employment, commercial, sports and international law cases. He accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ main practice areas.Before becoming a tenant at Littleton Chambers, Hari graduated with a prize-winning First Class degree from the University of Oxford. He was then awarded a Major Scholarship by the Inner Temple to undertake the Bar Course. Hari was appointed as a Visiting Lecturer in Constitutional Law at City St George’s, University of London at the age of 22, where he taught undergraduate and postgraduate public, international and human rights law.

Bláthnaid Breslin

Bláthnaid has experience in all of Chambers’ core areas of work and specialises in commercial litigation and civil fraud. She is recognised as a “Rising Star” in the Legal 500 for Civil Fraud.Recent cases include:Two substantial and high-profile commercial court trials, both of which were listed as The Lawyer’s “Top 20 Cases” of the relevant year: Athena Capital Fund v Secretariat of State for the Holy See[ 2025] EWHC 355 (Comm); The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care v PPE Medpro [2025] EWHC 2486 (Comm) (both led by Charles Samek KC).Two Supreme Court cases on the scope of state/diplomatic immunity: Basfar v Wong[ 2023] AC 33 (SC); Costantine v Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) [2025] 1 WLR 1207 (SC) (both led by Mohinderpal Sethi KC).Bláthnaid is instructed on the appeal to the Supreme Court in Servis-Terminal LLC v Drelle (acting for the Respondent to the appeal and led by Charles Samek KC). The central issue on the appeal is whether a bankruptcy petition can be founded on an unrecognised foreign judgment.Prior to joining Chambers, Bláthnaid was the judicial assistant to Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court (as he then was, he is now the Master of the Rolls).

Joseph Bryan

Ranked by The Legal 500 as a leading junior (Tier 2) and by Chambers and Partners as a Band 6 employment junior, Joseph Bryan is a specialist in employment, sports and commercial litigation. He represents clients in employment tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the civil courts, and in sports and commercial arbitrations.He was instructed in the Supreme Court in Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (t/a Nexus) v National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers [2024] 3 WLR 909, concerning the rectification of a collective agreement, and in the related proceedings in Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (t/a Nexus) v Anderson [2019] ICR 433, the leading Court of Appeal authority on the jurisdiction of employment tribunals in statutory wages claims.Joe has been appointed as a Specialist Member of Sports Resolutions’ National Panel for a three-year term and sits as a Chair of the FA’s National Serious Case Panel.He is a contributing author of Blackstone’s Employment Law Practice (OUP, 2023).

Alexander Bryant

Alexander accepts instructions in all of chambers’ practice areas. He is regularly instructed for trials, applications, and appeals. Alexander has a busy court and tribunal practice and is a popular junior to leaders within Littleton Chambers and elsewhere.Alexander has a particular interest in work in offshore jurisdictions, including, but not limited to, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). He was called to the BVI Bar in 2024 and spent 3 months in the jurisdiction assisting a local firm. He is also registered to practice in the Courts of the DIFC.

Sophie Cashell

Sophie practices across all of Chambers’ main areas of expertise: employment, commercial and sport. Sophie regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal, representing both employers and employees, and has appeared in the High Court (as junior counsel) and the County Court (as junior and sole counsel).Sophie’s litigation experience includes statutory employment, commercial, as well as business protection disputes. Whilst she has been involved in an array of employment matters, she has particular experience and interest in cases involving whistleblowing and discrimination. Sophie also has experience with business protection cases or commercial claims containing allegations of misuse of confidential information, civil fraud and other breaches of contract. For example, she has acted as junior counsel in ‘team move’ litigation (involving allegations of conspiracy) in the High Court representing two departing executives and acted as junior counsel in a 9-day unfair prejudice trial (also involving a claim of unlawful means conspiracy) in the Insolvency and Companies Court.Sophie combines her court work with advisory and drafting work, often involving fact-sensitive and legally complex issues. This includes drafting appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal and High Court.

Mia Chaudhuri-Julyan

Mia is a specialist sports, commercial litigation and employment law barrister. She welcomes instructions across all chambers’ practice areas.Mia is a rising star within Littleton’s sports law group. She has substantial sports law experience as a junior barrister and benefits from having undertaken a specialist pupillage, one of only a few in the country with real depth and breadth in sports law, including regulatory disputes, sports arbitration, mediation, and sports/employment matters. Mia recently acted as junior counsel for QPR, defending it against £11m claims brought by a former academy player.Before joining chambers, Mia was a Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Phillips in the Court of Appeal, where she assisted with complex and high-profile commercial appeals. She practises across the full suite of commercial matters, including in contractual, shareholder and director disputes as well as in commercial/employment cases, including business protection and injunctions. She also acts in cases with an international dimension, including in the DIFC.Mia’s strategic approach is informed by her prior litigation experience, having spent two years at Leigh Day in the Employment and Discrimination and Human Rights departments, working on group claims. She holds a Masters in Law from UCL with distinction and received a prestigious Princess Royal Scholarship from the Inner Temple.

Georgina Churchhouse

Georgina is ranked as a Band 4 employment junior in the Legal 500 and a Band 6 employment junior in Chambers and Partners, having first entered the directories after her second year in practice, where she has been described as:“superb,” “a junior with gravitas,” “super-bright,” “very clever and commercial” “wins cases with incredibly sharp analysis and by managing to spot the points that others miss,” “consistently excellent at advocacy,” “excellent at cross-examining,” “has excellent judgement,” “first class in remaining calm, assured and unflustered,” “inspires trust in the client very early on,” “her client-management skills are excellent,” “extremely user-friendly,” and “everything that you need in a junior barrister.”She enjoys a busy trial, appellate, drafting and advisory practice and is deployed in complex, novel and high value litigation at first instance and on appeal both as sole counsel and as junior counsel to KC’s in High Court and Statutory Employment Litigation.

Jonathan Cohen KC

A KC at just 38 years old, Jonathan Cohen has built his reputation on being an outstanding cross-examiner and is often brought in to address difficult cases turning on disputed evidence of fact. He is listed in the well-known legal directories as a leading commercial dispute resolution, civil fraud, partnership and employment silk. In Chambers & Partners, he is described as “an awesome cross-examiner, who can really drill down to the nuts and bolts of a case” and a practitioner whose “expertise and sophistication shine through”.

Rupert D’Cruz KC

Rupert D’Cruz is a King’s Counsel specialising in complex cross-border litigation and arbitration, particularly:Company, Shareholder and Joint Venture disputesBanking, Finance and SecuritiesCivil Fraud and Asset TracingSale of GoodsConstruction, energy and infrastructure disputesGeneral Commercial Contract issues (including misrepresentation; estoppel; termination rights; and limitation of liability clauses)Injunctive Relief (including freezing injunctions (pre and post-judgment) and anti-suit injunctions)Private International Law (establishing and challenging jurisdiction; governing law issues; and recognition/enforcement of foreign judgments.Sanctions (and their effect on commercial contracts)Rupert is regularly instructed to provide expert opinions on English law issues for use in CIS- proceedings and is frequently appointed as an arbitrator in CIS-related disputes. He is a registered lawyer with the Astana International Financial Centre Court and recently (January – July 2023) represented the Claimant in the largest case to date before the Court (a $300 million shareholder dispute).”

Charlotte Davies

Charlotte is highly rated as a leading senior junior. Her principal specialisms are in employment and business protection law, and she has complementary expertise in commercial and partnership law.Charlotte is well-known not only for her excellent advocacy and legal knowledge but also for her approachable manner and ability to instil confidence in clients. She is often chosen as sole counsel against silks and other senior barristers but is equally adept at working as part of a counsel team.With significant experience across her areas of practice, Charlotte acts regularly in the High Court, County Court, Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and has appeared in both the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council.

Carol Davis KC

Carol Davis KC is a leading barrister with a standout reputation for advising and representing clients in the financial services sector. Appointed King’s Counsel in 2021, Carol specialises in complex, high-value, and reputationally sensitive disputes, with a particular focus on whistleblowing and discrimination claims. She brings a strategic, commercial approach to litigation and advisory work, with deep experience in the Employment Tribunal, High Court and appellate courts.Carol is trusted by major UK and multinational banks, investment firms, and financial institutions to act in their most serious and sensitive matters, from litigation involving senior executives to internal investigations requiring the utmost discretion. Carol is one of only 17 Silks ranked by Chambers & Partners in Independent Investigations. She regularly leads high-profile reviews involving regulatory concerns and misconduct allegations, often at the most senior levels of business. Clients value her calm authority, clear judgment, and ability to navigate both legal risk and reputational impact with precision.

Niran de Silva KC

Niran is a leading barrister, specialising in commercial and employment law with a particular expertise in applications for interim injunctive relief. He has a reputation for robust advocacy and sound commercial judgment.Having worked as an equity derivatives broker in the City, Niran has a thorough understanding of complex financial products and financial services regulation and he is frequently instructed in disputes in the financial services sector. His extensive expertise has led to his being instructed in numerous restrictive covenant and whistleblowing cases in this area.Niran regularly acts in commercial disputes between companies, including having appeared in the leading cases on the entitlement of utility companies to recover the costs of repairing negligent damage to their networks. He also appears in commercial arbitrations, both as a representative and as an arbitrator (including as chair of the arbitral tribunal).

Carla Fischer

Carla accepts instructions in all of chambers’ practice areas. Carla’s litigation experience includes statutory employment, commercial, as well as business protection disputes. She has acted as junior counsel in a one-week High Court case (involving allegations of breach of contract and confidence) and as sole counsel in a 5-day unfair dismissal and harassment trial for a former FIFA referee which was reported in the national and international news.Carla has worked for CMS Hasche Sigle’s international arbitration practice as a research associate in Munich, Germany and was a legal intern at the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN’s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands. Carla has extensive experience in academia and research across a wide range of legal and non-legal fields including at the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, Erfurt and the European University Institute in Florence. She was a Junior Scholar at Washington, DC based think tank, the Woodrow Wilson Center, for which she received a full scholarship from the German government. Carla is in the final stages of completing her PhD at Edinburgh University and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate seminars across different areas of public international law for three years.

Louis Flannery KC

Louis has been involved in arbitrations for more than three decades. He acts as counsel in arbitration and arbitration-related litigation (enforcement of awards, challenges to arbitrators and awards). He also sits regularly as sole, party-appointed, institution-appointed or presiding arbitrator, with more than 200 appointments so far. As arbitrator he specialises in international construction and engineering disputes, joint ventures, international trade contracts, and banking and finance agreements. He has appeared as expert witness in foreign courts, and as privilege master in English-seated arbitrations. He is co-author of Merkin and Flannery on the Arbitration Act 1996.

Steven Flynn

Steven is a leading senior junior whose practice focuses on business protection and sports law, supported by extensive experience in commercial litigation and arbitration. He is widely recognised for his strategic judgment, meticulous preparation, and calm authority—qualities that have made him a trusted adviser in high-value, complex, and reputationally sensitive disputes.In the field of business protection, Steven acts for corporates, financial institutions, and professional services firms in disputes involving breach of confidence, restrictive covenants, team moves, shareholder and partnership disputes, and directors’ duties. His practice frequently engages urgent injunctive relief, allegations of commercial fraud or fiduciary misconduct, and issues of governance and reputational risk. Clients and peers consistently commend his commercial acumen and composed, strategic approach, with Chambers UK (Commercial Dispute Resolution) describing him as “a brilliant lawyer [with] a helpful, calm manner [and] a commercially astute approach.”

Alex Francis

Alex is a specialist in employment and commercial litigation. He joined Littleton in 2019, having previously worked as a solicitor-advocate at Herbert Smith Freehills.Alex is ranked in both major directories for employment law. He is listed in the Legal 500 as a “Rising Star”, and is described in Chambers & Partners as “superb, great with clients, very responsive and…excellent with judges”; he “operates well beyond his years and his work is first-rate”.As a solicitor, Alex’s practice was focused on very high value commercial disputes, often with an international element. That experience means that he is often sought out for complex litigation. He is comfortable working as sole counsel or as part of a team.Alex’s employment law practice includes claims across the spectrum of employment law. He has a particular interest in cases involving the misuse of confidential information, restrictive covenants and claims in the team-move/conspiracy context. He also appears in discrimination, whistleblowing and other claims in the Employment Tribunal.

Paul Gilroy KC

Paul Gilroy KC’s reputation is principally based on his employment practice. He has for some years been recognised by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, and Legal Experts as a leader in this field. Paul has been recognised as a leading silk within the Employment Northern Circuit. Paul Gilroy has over three decades of experience of employment-related litigation at all levels. He has particular expertise in substantive High Court actions and proceedings for injunctive relief (including strike action injunctions) and high value/multi-party employment tribunal work. He also conducts investigations into employment law-related matters. He has a particular interest in sports-related litigation and regulatory matters, both generally and in sport in particular.

Nicholas Goodfellow

Nick is a leading commercial junior, with extensive expertise in civil fraud claims, international commercial cases, and those which involve applications for urgent injunctive relief (such as freezing or imaging orders). Nick is co-head of Littleton’s Commercial and Civil Fraud Group, is ranked as a leading junior in both areas, and has been described as a “shining light at the junior bar” in the Civil Fraud sphere. He acts in many cases involving the misappropriation of company assets, ranging across the spectrum of corporate wrongdoing, from the diversion of business opportunities to unvarnished corporate theft.

Tim Goodwin

Tim is recognised as a leading employment junior who is described in the current edition of Legal 500 as “first-rate” and “quick on his feet”.Tim qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and, before being called to the Bar, practiced as a Senior Associate in a Tier 1 rated City employment firm. In that role he was responsible for cases at all levels and across the broad spectrum of employment disputes. Tim’s considerable experience of employment disputes and civil litigation has furnished him with a level of expertise and knowledge that is well beyond his year of call, meaning that he is frequently instructed on complex, difficult and high-value cases.Tim has considerable advocacy experience, appearing in tribunals and county courts on a near-daily basis. He also appears in the High Court and Employment Appeal Tribunal, often unled. Tim combines his court work with advisory and drafting work, and can be depended on to deliver results consistently, quickly and commercially. Additionally, Tim has extensive experience of alternative dispute resolution, including formal, informal and judicial mediations, settlement negotiations and arbitration.

Benjamin Gray

Benjamin Gray is an experienced specialist in employment, sport and commercial law cases. He appears regularly across a range of courts and tribunals both at first instance and on appeal.His clients include prominent plcs, central Government departments and high net worth individuals. His caseload ranges from employee misconduct and internal investigations through discrimination, harassment, whistleblowing, and unfair dismissal. His wider practice includes TUPE disputes, restrictive covenants and employee competition, injunctions, fraud and committal proceedings.Benjamin’s wider work, including as a Government panellist, gives him experience and understanding of crossover issues in employment, commercial and public law litigation, including overlapping criminal and regulatory investigations and proceedings.Benjamin is experienced in dealing with cases involving political or reputational sensitivity, and has worked in a variety of litigation involving or linked to campaign groups and issues.He has extensive advocacy and witness handling experience, including cross examining individuals, including on career-ending allegations, ranging from senior executives through to vulnerable witnesses. He is experienced at using intermediaries and other special measures. He has a thorough knowledge of mental capacity legislation and is experienced at acting for and against protected parties.He is a member of the Employment Law Bar Association’s Management Committee, the Attorney General’s London B Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, a Recorder and a Deputy District Judge.

James Green

James is a specialist practitioner in employment, sports and commercial law. He is ranked as a leading junior in employment in the Legal 500, and has particular expertise in discrimination law and business protection disputes. In addition to his domestic practice, James is frequently involved in cases in the DIFC and the ADGM.Recent cases have included:Obtaining an injunction under the Protection From Harassment Act 1997 in the context of an employment dispute, led by David Reade KC.Acting for an employer in litigation concerning complex financial instruments and an associated bonus dispute.Defending the highest value employment claim to date in the ADGM, led by James Bickford Smith.Acting for the defendants in a high-value civil fraud claim regarding the sale of PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic, led by Adam Solomon KC and Alex Robson.Advising on numerous prospective team move disputes in the DIFC.

Alexander Halban

Alexander practises in all aspects of commercial litigation. His practice covers:commercial fraud and asset recovery (including freezing orders and related relief);commercial contract disputesprivate international law (including jurisdiction challenges, enforcement of foreign judgments, anti-suit injunctions and cases under foreign law)company and shareholder disputes (including unfair prejudice petitions, and disputes relating to shareholders’ and share purchase agreements)insolvency and bankruptcycommercial sports disputes.Alexander is a fluent Russian speaker and has a particular expertise in Russian and CIS disputes, having appeared in some of the largest Russian disputes including National Bank Trust v Yurov and Gorbachev v Guriev, both listed as ‘Top 20 Cases of the Year’.Alexander is recommended as a leading commercial practitioner in the major legal directories – he is ranked in Chambers & Partners for Commercial Dispute Resolution, and in Legal 500 for Commercial Litigation, Civil Fraud and Company Law.

Mark Humphreys

Mark specialises in Employment, Discrimination and Whistleblowing litigation, for claims brought in the Employment Tribunal and associated appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and the Court of Appeal. He has extensive trial experience in the Employment Tribunal, including multi-week trials, trials against litigants in person and dealing with Applications for Interim Relief. Mark also accepts instructions to complete Investigations for clients, and to act as a Grievance, Disciplinary or Appeal officer.Mark has considerable business experience from his time prior to coming to the Bar. He was a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte, and a successful banker dealing in complex international financing transactions, as well as being a statutory director of a number of companies. Mark is also a contributor to Blackstone’s Employment Law Practice published by Oxford University Press, and was formally a member of the Attorney-General’s B-Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.

Amany Jabir

Amany joined Littleton Chambers as a tenant in October 2024 following the successful completion of her pupillage. She accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ main areas of practice. Amany has experience in the full range of statutory employment disputes. With a commercial academic background, her professional focus is also oriented towards general commercial disputes.Before becoming a tenant at Littleton Chambers, Amany graduated top of her class from Leicester University and read for the BCL at Somerville College, Oxford, on scholarships. She was then awarded the Prince of Wales Scholarship and the Residential Scholarship from Gray’s Inn to undertake the Bar Course at City Law School, which also awarded her an Academic Excellence Scholarship.

David Lascelles

David Lascelles is a commercial barrister whose core practice is share and business sale disputes, shareholder disputes and urgent business-protection injunctions. He acts in contentious M&A and company litigation, including SPA warranty and indemnity claims, fraud and misrepresentation, notice disputes, earn-outs, deferred consideration and expert determinations. He is regularly instructed in heavyweight High Court litigation where careful analysis and fast strategic judgment are required, including injunctions concerning restrictive covenants, confidential information, directors’ duties and business-critical transactions.Recent work includes securing the strike-out of multi-million-pound directors’ duties claims, obtaining summary judgment in complex shareholder litigation, and acting in substantial SPA, good-leaver/bad-leaver and business-protection disputes for shareholders, employers, directors and senior executives. David is ranked by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 independent guides as a leading company and commercial litigator, including Tier 1 in Company.

Georgina Leadbetter

Georgina is a leading junior specialising in employment and commercial litigation. She has been commended in the legal directories as “superb” and “extremely persuasive on her feet” (Chambers & Partners) and “always top of my list of employment barristers” (Legal 500). In 2022, at under 10 years’ call, Georgina was nominated by Legal 500 as Employment Junior of the Year.Georgina’s statutory employment practice involves substantial trials and appeals as sole counsel, and led work to the highest appellate level. She has twice appeared in landmark employment appeals to the Supreme Court, led by David Reade KC.Georgina’s High Court practice has a focus on business protection disputes concerning restrictive covenants, confidential information, and fiduciary duties. Georgina is accustomed to acting at speed to seek and resist interim relief and enjoys the challenges presented by urgent injunctive work.

Jeremy Lewis KC

Jeremy is a leading practitioner in the employment law and business protection fields, and related cross-over work, commercial litigation and sports law. He is recognised for his strategic insight, robust advocacy and a user-friendly approach. He has particular areas of expertise in TUPE, whistleblowing, business protection/ injunctive relief and discrimination.He is the Editor of the Sweet & Maxwell loose-leaf book on Transfer of Undertakings and lead author of the seminal work on Whistleblowing (OUP, 2022). He is also a significant contributor to Bloch and Brearley on “Employment Covenants and Confidential Information” (Bloomsbury, 2018), including chapters on the duty of fidelity, fiduciary duties, express covenants and final remedies, and is also a contributor to leading works on Business Protection and on Corporate Insolvency (Lightman and Moss, 2017). He is a fee paid employment judge, sitting in Watford, and an accredited mediator.

Andrew Maguire

Andrew is a highly regarded chancery and commercial advocate, who has built up an impressive reputation in the ﬁelds of contractual and ﬁduciary disputes; many involving banking and ﬁnancial services claims, including civil fraud disputes involving cryptoassets.He has considerable experience in relation to international and domestic civil fraud and asset-tracing cases, often involving pre-emptive injunctions, particularly freezing and proprietary injunctions and cross-border enforcement of judgments and anti- suit injunctions.Andrew has been instructed on various cases involving mis-selling of ﬁnancial investment products and pension products; some of which have involved judicial review applications and Group Litigation Orders and cross-border claims.Much of Andrew’s work, in litigation and arbitral proceedings, has a strong international element, with his international clients based in the Middle East, Africa, India, China, Japan, and the USA. The cases on which he is instructed often raise complex jurisdictional and conﬂict of laws issues and involve English court proceedings in aid of arbitral proceedings and in connection with the enforcement of arbitration awards and foreign judgments.

Dale Martin KC

Dale Martin KC is one of the few leading employment silks who has a crossover specialist practice in company and partnership law, often in an injunctive setting. He is frequently instructed in cases involving individuals or businesses of very high net worth, usually following a boardroom bust up or a share sale dispute, where there are concurrent employment proceedings. Dale’s keen attention to detail and compelling advocacy style have also led to his successful reputation in long running multi-claimant complex litigation particularly in the equal pay arena. He is a natural trial and appellate advocate who is able to use his strategic insight, commercial judgment and tactical nous to position cases favourably to achieve his client’s objectives.Ranked for a number of years by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 as a leading employment practitioner, Dale’s practice encompasses injunctions, restrictive covenant and confidential information disputes, bonuses, fiduciary duties, shareholder disputes, contractual disputes, statutory claims including discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal, TUPE, trade union litigation, internal investigations and mediation/ADR. He also specialises in class-action litigation in the fields of equal pay and working time.

Sam Neaman

A specialist employment, international commercial litigation and sports law barrister, highly ranked in the legal directories as a “renowned senior junior” in several fields, and nominated for both Employment Junior of the Year and Sports Law Junior of the Year in recent Legal 500 Bar Awards.Quoted in the directories as “a born winner”, “a real ﬁghter” who “combines technical ability with a huge work ethic”, Sam has a proven successful track record in high-value/high proﬁle claims, including in the Supreme Court.Sam has extensive experience in all areas of employment law, both in the employment tribunals and in the High Court, where his crossover expertise in high-value complex commercial cases makes him sought after by clients in business protection disputes over restrictive covenants, conﬁdential information, breach of ﬁduciary duties, team moves, unlawful means conspiracy/economic torts, franchise/business sale disputes, and other threats to business.

Daniel Northall KC

Daniel is a leading silk in his core practice areas of employment and commercial litigation. He is routinely instructed on matters of critical importance to clients and is noted for his deft handling of complex disputes in a manner which is intellectually rigorous, pragmatic, collaborative and user-friendly.He typically acts on high-stakes disputes of particular importance to clients because of their complexity, financial value, or the commercial or reputational interests placed at risk. Daniel is noted for his ability to stay calm under fire and he is a reassured and reassuring presence in court.Daniel has developed a busy silk’s practice following his appointment to silk in 2024. His instructions are often multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional, drawing upon different aspects of his core specialisms, including business protection and confidential information, injunctions, company law, directors’ duties, shareholder rights, corporate insolvency, LLP/partnerships and complex statutory employment law.He is as comfortable working alone as he is within large, multi-disciplinary teams. He is a consummate team player who regards ego as a barrier to successful outcomes.

Martin Palmer

Martin Palmer is a barrister with an acknowledged reputation for a commercial and pragmatic approach towards the law.He was a solicitor for almost ten years before being called to the Bar in 2003. Since that time, he has built a leading practice in employment and discrimination law, sports law and commercial litigation.During his time at the Bar, Martin considers himself to have been privileged to have acted for a variety of employees from FTSE 100 chief executives to local authority manual workers. He represents large corporate employers (particularly those based in the City of London, professional services firms and international corporations) as well as trade unions, educational institutions and other public sector organisations.He qualified as a solicitor in 1994. He previously worked as a solicitor for Freshfields and Allen & Overy.He frequently lectures and provides training on those areas in which he practises.

Asfandyar Qureshi

Asfandyar is an established “go-to” early junior for commercial dispute resolution, particularly in matters with an international element. He acts both as junior counsel to silks and unled as sole counsel (including in trials against silks). Asfandyar’s recent work includes:Acting in LCIA proceedings on a c.$55 million dispute concerning an African banking merger & acquisition (with Louis Flannery KC).Acting for a foreign energy company in LCIA proceedings on a c.$150m dispute with a major global investment bank, arising out of disputed financial agreements (with Rupert D’Cruz KC).Acting for a Swiss consultancy company in its dispute with an offshore shipping company arising out of alleged breaches of contract and fiduciary duties (with Mohinderpal Sethi KC).Acting for a senior trader in High Court proceedings on a restrictive covenant and bonus dispute arising out of his move between rival hedge funds (with Niran de Silva KC).Acting as sole counsel in a four-day trial against a Band 1 KC in a case concerning disputed loan agreements and serious allegations of fraud.Asfandyar also practices in business protection; offshore / DIFC; employment; and sport. He has acted in trials across all these areas, both as junior counsel to silks and unled as sole counsel.Asfandyar has a stellar academic record, having graduated with First Class Honours (and equivalent) from both Oxford and Cambridge. Prior to his work as a barrister, he was the judicial assistant to Lord Justice Coulson in the Court of Appeal, and an analyst at an international commercial litigation firm (where he worked in litigation across multiple jurisdictions arising out of the ‘1MBD’ controversy).

David Reade KC

David is recognised as one of the Country’s leading silks in commercial litigation and employment law. He has appeared in many leading authorities.His approach to work is reflected by the quotations which appear from his clients in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. Legal 500 describe David as “superb in court with a magnificent presence, engaging advocacy and great on paperwork”, “a very creative lateral thinker; extremely accessible and down to earth“ and “fearless, clear, polished and empathetic”. Chambers & Partners describe David as a “delightful guy who is very sharp-witted and highly approachable“, “imaginative in his thinking” and his “courtroom performances are extremely smooth and authoritative” impressed sources say.In the last two years the directories have quoted clients as saying of David that he was “clear, practical and extremely effective“. A “robust and fearless presence”, “able to deal with really knotty issues”, “vivacious, bold and brilliant“, “pleasingly straightforward” and “helpful in getting you out of a tight spot”.He brings to his work experience across a broad spectrum of legal practice which has refined as his career has developed into his present fields of specialism. In dealing with clients he prides himself on being approachable and providing a service geared to the needs of the client for, as one of his clients said, “he is not a ‘one size fits all’ type of practitioner; he tailors his approach to each client and case with great meticulousness.”He is also an ADR qualified mediator.

Alexander Robson

Band 1 Junior, Chambers & PartnersEmployment Junior of the Year 2024 (Chambers UK Bar Awards)Alexander’s principal areas of specialism are commercial litigation and employment law.According to Chambers & Partners, “Alexander is a master of his subject and a delight to work with” and “an exceptional barrister with a remarkable knowledge of the law”. Alexander is a confident advocate and often appears unled against Leading Counsel. He also enjoys working as a junior and as part of a wider team to secure the best result for his clients.Alexander is particularly experienced at trial tactics and advocacy. A robust oral advocate, Chambers & Partners describes him as an “incisive cross-examiner” whose “delivery and timing are excellent”, “extremely approachable with incredible clarity of thought on how to run a case” and “super smart, across all the detail and a lethal cross-examiner”.Alexander writes and lectures on commercial and employment law. He is a published author.

Callum Rodgers

Callum joined Littleton Chambers as a tenant in October 2025 following the successful completion of his pupillage. He is developing a broad commercial and employment practice and has a particular interest in cases with a sporting connection. He acts in matters across Littleton’s core practice areas including commercial and company litigation, High Court and statutory employment litigation, and sports arbitrations. He brings a strategic and considered approach to each case, informed by significant prior litigation experience.Before transferring to the Bar, Callum gained 4 years’ post-qualification experience practising as a solicitor in the Complex Commercial Litigation department of Latham & Watkins, where he obtained Higher Rights of Audience. He also served as a Judicial Assistant at the Court of Appeal, assisting the Chancellor of the High Court, Sir Julian Flaux, on complex and high-profile commercial appeals.

Charles Samek KC

Charles Samek KC is a highly experienced English barrister and King’s Counsel (KC, or Silk). He has been at the Bar since 1989, and has been a KC since 2009. He is recommended in the major legal directories as a leading KC in the following practice areas: (1) commercial dispute resolution; (2) civil fraud; (3) banking and finance; (4) offshore litigation. Charles is first and foremost an advocate, whose expertise lies in presenting a client’s case to the court, whether at first instance or on appeal, and in cross-examination of factual and expert witnesses at trial.He has been shortlisted (one of three) by Chambers & Partners for ‘2025 Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year’, and by Legal 500 as ‘2019 Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year’.Charles advises clients with regard to commercial disputes. He appears regularly as an advocate in London’s High Court, principally the King’s Bench Division (Commercial Court), and he has appeared as an advocate over 25 times in the Court of Appeal.

Stuart Sanders

Stuart joined Littleton in April 2019 upon completion of a Third Six Pupillage, having previously undertaken 12-month pupillage at a leading commercial set. Stuart accepts instructions across all Chambers’ core areas of work, and has a particular interest in commercial and business protection work.Stuart is equally happy working as sole or junior counsel, having undertaken significant work in both capacities, including appearing unled on numerous occasions in the EAT and High Court, including against significantly more senior opponents.

Antony Sendall

Antony is a highly experienced and specialist advocate and mediator and is an acknowledged leading practitioner in employment and sports law.Antony’s specialist employment practice covers not only the core areas of statutory employment regulation such as unfair dismissal, redundancy, discrimination, whistleblowing and TUPE, but is also set firmly in a background of commercial litigation, with a strong emphasis on restrictive covenant, confidential information and garden leave injunctions as well as industrial relations disputes. In addition, his employment and sports law expertise in particular, have allowed him to develop a further speciality in regulatory and disciplinary work which spans across a wide range of professional areas.

Mohinderpal Sethi KC

Mohinderpal Sethi K.C. is a Top Ranked trial and appellate advocate regularly appearing at the highest levels in UK, Middle East and Caribbean courts and arbitral tribunals. He is Band 1-ranked across five core practice areas – Commercial, Employment, Partnership, Middle East (including DIFC and ADGM) Litigation and Independent Investigations – and highly ranked in Offshore, Caribbean, Public International Law and Human Rights.Mo’s market-leading expertise is reflected in awards including Commercial Silk of the Year 2026 (Legal 500 MENA), (twice) Senior Counsel of the Year 2023 and 2024 (IEL), Employment Silk of the Year 2023 (Legal 500), Civil Lawyer of the Year 2022 (ALA) and Barrister of the Year Finalist 2022 (The Lawyer).

Matthew Sheridan

Matthew (Band 1, Chambers & Partners 2026; Tier 1 Legal 500 2026) treats every instruction as an opportunity to impress and to build and strengthen relationships. He believes in rigorous legal analysis, meticulous preparation and well-judged advocacy, whilst also being responsive and user-friendly.Matthew’s High Court practice focuses on business competition with an emphasis on confidential information, restrictive covenants, garden leave and springboard relief, particularly in a team-move/conspiracy context. He also acts in commercial disputes and has acted recently in a substantial fraud claim and in claims arising from business sale agreements and breach of commission agreement. Matthew’s Tribunal practice focuses on complex discrimination/victimisation claims, whistleblowing, and employee/worker status.

Ming-Yee Shiu

Ming-Yee Shiu is a highly sought after barrister specialising in commercial and employment litigation. Her practice covers a wide range of complementary areas, including commercial, company, partnership/LLPs, employment, civil fraud and international disputes. She has extensive experience of applications for search orders, freezing injunctions and other forms of interim relief.She is described in Chambers UK Bar 2022 as “extremely clever, she is incisive, she is an impressive and shrewd advocate, and clients absolutely love her”.The Legal 500 also recommends her as “a strong advocate”, “technically excellent” and “very quick and helpful”, of whom “nothing seems to phase her”.Commercial awareness and client care Ming-Yee has a highly professional, teamwork-based approach to litigation. She is known for providing an exceptional service to her clients, offering a calm but focused approach to highly demanding, stressful situations. She is attuned to the demands of complex litigation, whether acting as sole counsel or with a leader, being “very client-focused and very reliable” and “a tenacious advocate, who will roll up her sleeves and work through the night if necessary“. She has also been described as “commercial and pragmatic” and “extremely approachable and client-friendly”.

Nicholas Siddall KC

Specialises in employment and industrial relations law. His practice includes significant employment related High Court litigation encompassing injunctive relief, wrongful dismissal and high value contractual claims. He also undertakes all facets of statutory employment law including unfair dismissal, collective redundancy, NMW, TUPE and Working Time claims. He regularly appears in significant, high value and complicated discrimination and whistleblowing matters on behalf of individuals, unions and employers of all sizes. He is regularly instructed to advise on the employment issues which arise from the COVID pandemic and issues of territorial jurisdiction.

Adam Solomon KC

“Mr Solomon is an extremely dangerous counsel […] brutally effective, and quite unnervingly good.”The Honourable Justice Gerhard Wallbank, High Court, Commercial Division, Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of the British Virgin Islands, 30 April 2026Crumpler et al v Zhu et al BVIHC(COM)2023-0283Adam is a commercially minded trial advocate, who has appeared as lead counsel at every level, from the Commercial Court and King’s Bench Division to the Court of Appeal, Privy Council and Supreme Court. He is recognised in the directories in respect of all his practice areas. He is recommended in Chambers & Partners as a leading KC for Commercial Dispute Resolution, Employment and Professional Discipline, and in Legal 500 for Offshore, Employment and Professional Disciplinary and Regulatory Law. Chambers & Partners describes him as “An excellent all-rounder, who combines flair in the courtroom with diligence and perseverance.”

Daniel Tatton-Brown KC

Daniel specialises in all aspects of employment law. He was appointed a KC in 2016. He is cited in all the leading directories (Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, “Who’s Who Legal”) as a leading silk in employment law. In the most recent edition of Chambers and Partners he is described as an“Daniel Tatton Brown KC is an impressive silk who centres his practice on employee competition litigation, tribunal claims and appellate work in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. He has knowledge of a raft of different issues including discrimination, whistle-blowing, collective labour law and redundancy.”

Joel Wallace

Joel’s specialist practice areas, for which he is ranked in leading directories, are sports, employment, discrimination and business protection law. Joel appears in cases which attract press attention and are of wider international significance. Joel appeared before the UK Supreme Court in Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Costantine [2025] UKSC 9, [2025] 1 WLR 1207,which is the leading case on the court’s duty to give effect to state immunity. Joel also represented the successful appellant in CAS 2025/A/11241Majeed v Anorthosis Famagusta FC, an international football wage dispute before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (the “Supreme Court” of sport). Recently, Joel defended QPR in an £11+ million discrimination, harassment and victimisation suit brought by a former academy player.Joel prides himself on having a modern and down-to-earth approach. His collaborative style focuses on early strategising to achieve client objectives and his self-deprecating manner makes working with him on even the most challenging cases enjoyable. Clients say that Joel has an ability to develop fine-tuned solutions in difficult circumstances and that he communicates in a “calm” and “measured” way. As a keen advocate, natural presenter, and robust cross-examiner, Joel brings a rounded skillset to the table.

Kieran Wilson

Kieran is an employment and equality law specialist, ranked as a leading junior in both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.His advice is underpinned by rigorous legal analysis, a keen awareness of the commercial and non-legal factors at play in litigation, and acute strategic insight. Clients describe Kieran as “a supremely sharp advocate”, “exceptional on his feet”, and “an absolute delight to work with … extremely client friendly, down to earth and approachable”.

James Wynne

James’ practice covers employment law in both Employment Tribunals and High Court, collective/trade union aspects of labour law, commercial disputes and injunctions. James has acted in high profile discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE/redundancy and collective matters. James’ High Court employment expertise includes injunctions and claims regarding directors’ duties, restrictive covenants, team moves and soft IP. He has acted for a number of clients facing national industrial action. James’ commercial practice includes contractual disputes, directors' duties, agency, soft IP, copyright and passing off, insolvency and employment agency contracts. He has a growing practice in charities regulation. James’ practice regularly involves international disputes and foreign jurisdictions. He has undertaken full trials at first instance in the DIFC Court and appeared before the DIFC Court of Appeal and ADGM Court. James has a particular interest in the GDPR.