Littleton Chambers

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).

Called to the Bar: 2015. Bar Professional Training Course: Outstanding. Graduate Diploma in Law: Distinction. MSt Modern Languages, University of Oxford: Distinction. BA Modern Languages, University of Durham: First Class Hons.

French, German

Employment Lawyers Association Employment Law Bar Association

Before his career at the Bar, Joseph gained undergraduate and master’s degrees in Modern Languages and worked in both France and Germany. He was ranked in the top three students in his law conversion course cohort and went on to be graded Outstanding in his Bar exams.

• 2015: BPTC: Outstanding

• 2014: GDL: Distinction

• 2012: MSt Modern Languages (University of Oxford): Distinction

• 2011: BA (Hons) Modern Languages (Durham University): First Class