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Daphne Romney KC KC
Work Department
Employment, corporate (commercial), civil liberties.
Position
Daphne Romney QC is an expert in high-value, very complex litigation and is well known as a highly skilled advocate. She specialises in employment law, most notably discrimination, equal pay, protected disclosures, and victimisation, representing both claimants and respondents. A survey in The Lawyer showed that she was the most used female employment silk both in the EAT and the Court of Appeal in the last five years.
Over the past eighteen years Daphne has acted for thousands of women in mass equal pay claims against local authorities incluing Birmingham, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Redcar & Cleveland and Middlesbrough and for NHS staff in the test case on whether Agenda for Change complied with equal pay law. She is currently acting for Co-Op employees in their equal pay claim and for BNP Paribas in a claim for equal pay and discrimination brought by an employee on long term sick leave. She also advised the Equality Commission Northern Ireland on the effect of the forthcoming Pay Transprency Directive in the light of Brexit. She is the author of Equal Pay – Law and Practice (OUP 2018).
Her cases in the Court of Appeal include NHS Manchester v Fecitt (whistleblowing and detriment) Adesokan v Sainbury’s Stores (wrongful dismissal) and Walker v Co-Operative Group (equal pay and sex discrimination).
Daphne conducted an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination at the BMA, and her widely-publicised report was published in October 2019. She also investigated a grievance brought against the CEO of a local authority.
Daphne is a member of the EHRC A List Panel
Career
Called 1979. Silk 2009. Chair of the Employment Bar Law Association and a former ELA committee member.
She chaired the Fawcett Society Equal Pay Working Party and was a member of the Fawcett Society Sex Discrimination Working Party chaired by Dame Laura Cox.
She regularly lectures for 22 QCs, ELA and ILS and has appeared as a legal commentator on Sky News, Newsnight, Today and LBC.
Languages
French
Memberships
ELBA
ELA
ILS
Education
Newnham College, Cambridge (BA Cantab).
Leisure
Arsenal season ticket-holder, theatre-goer, exerciser and cook.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Daphne Romney KC – Cloisters ‘She is a leader in the field of equal pay. A class act at the top of her game.’
Cloisters is ‘packed with employment law talent‘, housing a team of ‘outstanding counsel‘. The group continues to handle a high volume of complex discrimination cases, and reports an increase in multi-party equal pay claims. The ‘exceptionally talented‘ Caspar Glyn KC is representing more than 8,000 drivers, as claimants, in litigation against Bolt concerning allegations of non-payment of the national minimum wage and holiday pay. In a separate matter, Schona Jolly KC, Rachel Barrett and Ameer Ismail are acting for multiple claimants in claims involving allegations of harassment and discrimination brought against McDonald’s. Daphne Romney KC is ‘a true force to be reckoned with‘, with established expertise in advising on equal pay and whistleblowing claims. Team head Dee Masters is ‘extremely knowledgeable on tribunal practice and procedure‘. In recent developments for the set, Yvette Genn was appointed a Circuit Judge in October 2023, and Anna Beale KC and Sarah Fraser Butlin KC were elevated to silk in March 2024.