Band 1
Band 1
About
Provided by Naomi Ling
Practice Areas
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
Career
Call: 2001
Professional Memberships
- Attorney General’s A Panel
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Employment Law Association
- Industrial Law Society
- Association of Pension Lawyers
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Naomi Ling is repeatedly instructed by clients to appear in complex tribunal and appellate cases across the whole gamut of employment law. She has extensive knowledge of age and disability discrimination as well as holiday pay disputes, with additional experience of pension-related claims.
Naomi Ling specialises in both pensions and employment law, and is an expert in professional negligence, discrimination and rectification disputes. She is particularly strong at representing public sector organisations, as well as private employers and trustees. She provides advice on pensions-related commercial agreements, contractual entitlements and the drafting of trust deeds.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Naomi is technically excellent and always delivers."
"Naomi is just incredibly measured and I value her judgement."
"Naomi is extremely bright and really gets to the crux of the issues in hand."
"Naomi was very easy to get on with and worked well in a team."
"Naomi is technically excellent and always delivers."
"Naomi is just incredibly measured and I value her judgement."
"Naomi is extremely bright and really gets to the crux of the issues in hand."
"Naomi was very easy to get on with and worked well in a team."
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