Claire Darwin KC

Practice Areas

Claire Darwin KC is a leading expert in employment and equality rights. She has been recognised by the legal directories as a leading barrister for employment, education, and public law for many years. Her discrimination work spans the fields of employment, goods and services, pensions, premises, education, and public law. According to the directories Claire is ‘a go to barrister for statutory employment law claims’, and ‘on complex disability discrimination cases there is no one better.'

Career

Called to the Bar 2005. Appointed King’s Counsel 2023. Appointed a Recorder (part-time Circuit Judge), 2023. Appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel in 2017, and reappointed for a further term in 2021. Also appointed to the B and C Panels. In 2018 she was appointed to the Attorney General’s Panel of Special Advocates, and she is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s current Panel of Preferred Counsel.

Claire’s practice focuses on advocacy. She is equally at home conducting lengthy trials which involve extensive cross-examination of factual and expert witnesses, or in the appellate courts arguing complex points of law. Her advocacy experience includes over 30 reported cases, including cases in the European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Public Services and Charities Silk of the Year. One of eight barristers shortlisted for The Lawyer’s Barrister of the Year Award 2020, for which she received a Commendation. Named as one of the UK’s “Hot 100 Lawyers” by The Lawyer magazine in January 2020.