Edward Kemp

Edward has a broad cross-disciplinary practice in employment and equality, private international, human rights and commercial law. Edward is ranked as a leading junior in the following directories: (1) Legal 500 UK – tier 1 for employment; (2) Legal 500 EMEA – tier 1 for commercial disputes in the Middle East; (3) Chambers UK – for employment; (4) Chambers Global – expertise based abroad for DIFC and ADGM litigation in the United Arab Emirates. He was nominated for Employment Junior of the Year in the Legal 500 Awards 2020.

Edward is particularly sought after for challenging cases raising novel points of law and sensitive factual disputes requiring creative thinking and flexible advocacy skills. He is singled out for his exceptional legal ability having been consistently described as “extremely bright…always does a first class job” (Legal 500 2021), “extremely intelligent” (Legal 500 2018), “exceptionally talented” (Chambers and Partners 2013) and “one to watch” (Chambers and Partners 2016).

Edward brings to bear a depth of experience across a number of other legal fields including personal injury, professional negligence and contract law. Ed has also been noted for his “cross-disciplinary expertise” and his “international” practice (Chambers & Partners 2020), he regularly works on such cases in the UK courts and he has appeared in a number of precedent-setting cases in the DIFC Courts in Dubai.

Edward has a strong practice as both a trial and appellate lawyer. He has been instructed as sole or leading counsel in many appellate cases in the EAT and the Court of Appeal. He has also been led twice in successful appeals before the Supreme Court, having appeared as counsel at every level of court and tribunal below. Edward also has experience of drafting applications before the European Court of Human Rights.

Edward was educated in both English Law and French Law.

He has an LLB from King’s College London and a Maîtrise en Droit from Université de Paris I (La Sorbonne).

Edward then took an LLM from University College London which focused on employment, equality law and comparative law.