Eleena Misra KC

Practice Areas

Employment, Professional Discipline & Regulation, Public Law and Inquests.

Career

Eleena specialises in complex, high value and high-profile employment and regulatory cases, especially in the healthcare and education sectors. She has significant experience in dealing with sensitive discrimination claims requiring careful witness handling skills in lengthy hearings often with associated High Court, appellate or regulatory litigation. Eleena has both broads and deep commercial and public law experience which results in instructions in cases of substance across the full spectrum of employment work at both the advisory and advocacy stages for clients ranging from law firms and banks to local authorities, senior executives and public sector workers. Eleena has notable expertise and a calm leadership approach to time sensitive and stressful High Court injunctions / speedy trials, such as in confidential information and MHPS (healthcare) cases. Eleena holds a qualification in Forensic Medicine and accepts instructions in medico-legal cases and inquests. In addition, Eleena is often sought out for difficult investigations (especially involving sexual violence and misconduct) and lectures in her specialist areas of work. Eleena is Chair of the Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council and an experienced advocacy and ethics trainer at Middle Temple.

Recent clients include elite universities, a premiership football club, well known unions, the NHS, healthcare regulators, emergency services and private international equity firms.

Professional Memberships

ELBA, ELA, ILS, ARDL.

Publications

Blackstones’ Employment Law Practice

Civil Procedure and Tribunals

Personal

MA (Oxon) Jurisprudence.

DipFSM (Barts / QMUL)

Called July 2001 (Middle Temple), Diplock Scholar

Silk 2023