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Ms Nicola Newbegin
Position
Nicola specialises in employment, discrimination, industrial relations and professional discipline, as well as undertaking related work in the fields of judicial review, human rights and data protection. Nicola practises in all sectors but has particular expertise in the healthcare sector having appeared before all the major healthcare regulators and in a number of the leading high court doctor and dentist cases, including: GMC v Chandra (CA), McMillan v Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (CA); Chakrabarty v Ipswich Hospitals NHS Trust (QBD); and Dusza & Sobhani v Powys Teaching Local Health Board (CA), as well as a number of judicial reviews relating to doctors in training. Nicola regularly appears before the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal, including recently representing the teacher in Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy v Parry before both the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal Nicola also has extensive experience of complex discrimination claims (both employment tribunal and county court) and of multi-claimant and collective disputes.
Career
Former solicitor (admitted January 2003). Joined Old Square Chambers as a tenant in October 2009.
Memberships
ELA, ELBA, ILS, ARDL, ALBA
Education
Keble College, Oxford (Jurisprudence).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Nicola Newbegin – Old Square Chambers ‘Nicola is extremely knowledgeable and insightful, and provides astute advice on the technical elements of complex cases. Her advocacy is always precise and persuasive.’
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Nicola Newbegin –Old Square Chambers ‘An excellent advocate, who delivers her points with accuracy and clarity. She really fights for her client.‘
The ‘brilliant set‘ Old Square Chambers is very well known for its strength in handling instructions focusing on the healthcare sector, however members are equally adept at assisting professionals from the financial, education and legal sectors. Ben Collins KC is acting in Suresh v GMC, an ongoing case concerning a claim brought by the widow of a doctor who had taken his own life while under a GMC investigation. Nicola Newbegin is ‘a fluent advocate‘ with expertise in handling regulatory proceedings for healthcare professionals and solicitors. In March 2023 the senior end of the team was bolstered by the elevation of Eleena Misra KC and Nadia Motraghi KC to silk.