Daphne Romney KC

Employment, corporate (commercial), civil liberties.

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

Newnham College, Cambridge (BA Cantab).