Rachel Barrett
About
Provided by Rachel Barrett
Professional Memberships
ELBA, ELA, DLA, ALBA, BHRC, HRLA, Justice, INQUEST, Advocate.
Publications
Co-author of OUP’s Employment Law and Human Rights. Contributing author to Supperstone’s Judicial Review, Bullen & Leake’s Precedents of Pleadings, Lewis & Buchan’s Clinical Negligence and Sweet and Maxwell’s Human Rights Practice. Researcher on Baroness Hale's Mental Health Law.
Personal
Rachel studied at SOAS (BA History and MA Chinese Studies) and worked in mental health before becoming a barrister.
Practice Areas
Rachel has a varied employment, discrimination and human rights law practice. She specialises in cases with crossover equality and human rights law issues, has particular expertise in whistle-blowing law, and is in demand as sole or junior counsel in legally complex and novel litigation. Rachel also undertakes inquests and public inquiry work.
Career
Called to the Bar in 2012. Judicial assistant to Lord Wilson and Lord Hodge in the Supreme Court in 2014-2015. Appointed to the EHRC B-Panel in 2019. Fee-paid Employment Judge from 2020.
Reported cases include: NUPFC v Certification Officer [2021] ICR 1397; Gray v Mulberry Co (Design) Ltd [2020] ICR 715; Bou-Simon v BGC [2019] 1 All ER (Comm) 955; Kilraine v Wandsworth [2018] ICR 1850; Gilham v Ministry of Justice [2018] IRLR 315; Simpkin v Berkeley Group [2017] 4 WLR 11; McCann v State Hospital Board for Scotland [2017] 1 WLR 1455; Blackwood v Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust [2016] ICR 903.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Rachel Barrett
Rachel Barrett is an impressive employment law barrister who has made appearances before the highest UK courts. She acts on behalf of both claimant and respondent clients and handles a wide range of matters including breach of contract, whistle-blowing and disability discrimination.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rachel is a go-to for Employment Tribunal cases. She is superb on strategy, on the law and with clients."
"She is an exceptional barrister."
"Rachel is a go-to for Employment Tribunal cases. She is superb on strategy, on the law and with clients."
"She is an exceptional barrister."
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