Helena Ifeka

Commercial Law

Equality and Discrimination

Employment

Human Rights

Personal Injury

Clinical Negligence

Public and Administrative Law

Helena is a strong trial advocate who has appeared several times in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Central Arbitration Committee as sole counsel. Due to her previous career in industry and consultancy, she is pragmatic, commercially minded and has excellent interpersonal skills.

Helena specialises in employment, discrimination and human rights law. Her recent trials have concerned discrimination, constructive dismissal, redundancy, TUPE and whistleblowing. She has acted in several group gig-economy worker status cases, and, equally, recently defeated a worker status claim. She also advises and acts in Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery cases.

Examples of recent successful interlocutory hearings include applications for anonymity and restricted reported orders; costs; strike out; extension of time to serve a response to claim; and set aside of default judgment.

Prior to the Bar

Before retraining in law, for twelve years, Helena ran business transformation programmes and worked as an IT and management consultant at C-level for clients in the private and public sectors.

Qualifications

Called in 2020. Educated at the University of Sydney, BA Honours (First Class), University Medal, English Society Award; Columbia University USA, MA, MPhil, Fulbright Scholarship, Arthur Macquarie Scholarship; Oxford Brookes, GDL (Distinction), Oxford University Press Prize; BPP, BPTC (Very Competent), Middle Temple Queen Mother Scholarship.

ELA, ILS, INQUEST, PIBA

Helena is a contributor to FromCounsel.