Naomi Ling

Naomi is a specialist in employment law and pensions law and in particular the area of cross-over between the two. She also has significant experience of human rights, public law and professional negligence issues.

In the employment tribunal she deals with cases including multiparty discrimination, equal pay and holiday pay claims, and complex and sensitive discrimination and whistleblowing claims.

In the High Court she is instructed on black letter pensions trusts issues, and other commercial matters in the pensions and employment spheres including liability for TUPE issues and employment related entitlements. She appears regularly in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. Naomi was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel of counsel in September 2020. She was shortlisted for ‘Employment Junior of the Year’ at the Chambers Bar Awards 2022.

Recent highlights include

- intervening on behalf of the Charity Commission in MacLennan v British Psychological Society & Others [2024] EAT 166 concerning whether a charity trustee was a ‘worker’;

- representing a pensions trustee in Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Beattie [2022] EAT 163, concerning the interpretation of the European Union Withdrawal Act, and the temporal limitation regarding service prior to 1 December 2006 for discrimination claims against pension schemes;

- representing over 7000 store workers in claims for equal pay against Morrisons, led by Andrew Short KC

Call: 2001