Schona Jolly KC

Practice Areas

Schona Jolly KC has a high profile domestic and international silk practice, highly acclaimed in her principal specialist areas in equality, employment, human rights law, and public international law. She has notable expertise in conducting group litigation as well as highly regarded for her strategic advice on complex litigation and policy in the UK and internationally. She routinely acts for a wide range of clients in domestic and international courts including international NGOS and inter/national bodies across governance, diplomacy, politics, media and entertainment. Her practice intersects widely with other areas of law, including AI, sports, and public law. She is longstanding Panel Counsel to the EHRC.

Schona was Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee 2019- 2021 and is Head of Cloisters Human Rights and International Law Practice Groups. She is a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths University, London.

Career

Called to the Bar 1999; Licence Speciale (European Law) at University of Brussels; BA Jurisprudence, Magdalen College, Oxford.

Professional Memberships

Bar Human Rights Committee; JUSTICE, ELA, IBA, CORLA, DLA, ELBA, ALBA, Women in Sports Law.

Publications

Contributing author:-

- British Academy: Judicial Independence in Times of Crisis (2022)

- Sweet & Maxwell, 'Human Rights Practice': Article 9 ECHR.

- OUP 'Equal Pay' : Introduction to EU law, Brexit and Equal Pay (2021);

- 'Discrimination in Employment: A Claims Handbook', LAG, 2013.

Co-author: Age Discrimination Handbook, LAG 2006

Former associate editor of the European Human Rights Reports.

Regular academic/media contributions.

Personal

Legally fluent in French. High level Spanish, Punjabi, Intermediate Hindi/Urdu, Basic Arabic.