Lord Hendy KC

Practice Areas

Predominantly UK industrial relations and trade union law. Standing Counsel to a number of UK unions. Chambers & Partners Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017. Chambers & Partners Directory: 'Recognised as the leading silk at the Employment Bar when it comes to handling industrial relations cases’.

Advises and represents in the ECtHR and other international fora, recently for International Transport Workers’ Federation, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Swedish Transport Workers’, Norwegian Dockworkers’, and the Latvian Air Traffic Controllers’ Unions. Consultant to International Trade Union Confederation.

Recent cases: R (Boots) v CAC, PDAU [2017] EWCA Civ 66, [2017] IRLR 355; Agarwal v Cardiff University, Tyne & Wear PTE t/a Nexus v Anderson [2018] EWCA Civ 2084, [2019] ICR 433, [2019] IRLR 657; Royal Mail v CWU [2019] EWCA Civ 2150; R (IWGB) v SoS for BEIS [2021] EWCA Civ 260, [2021] IRLR 363; National Union of Professional Foster Carers v Certification Officer, IWGB [2021] EWCA Civ 548, [2021] IRLR 588; R (IWGB) v CAC, Roo Foods ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 952, [2021] IRLR 796; Straume v Latvia ECtHR, Appn 59402/14, 2 June 2022.

Career

Called: 1971; in practice 1977; silk: 1987; peerage 2019.

Honorary professor at UCL since 2014.

Professional Memberships

ILS, ELBA, ELA, IER (Chair).

Publications

‘Industrial Action’ in Bullen & Leake & Jacobs Precedents of Pleadings, Sweet & Maxwell; ‘The Holship Case’ [2018] 47 ILJ 315 with Tonia Novitz; ‘COVID-19 and the Failure of Labour Law’ [2020] ILJ 497 with KD Ewing.