Martina Murphy practice focuses on employment,  group litigation and professional discipline.

Martina’s “advocacy is excellent”, as is her ability “to relate to clients and really understand their aims“.

She regularly appears unled in the appellate courts including the EAT and the Court of Appeal and is often instructed directly on appeals without having appeared below.  She is currently instructed in group employment litigation on behalf of 40+ Claimants. She recently succeeded in defending an appeal before the EAT, which upheld that s.19 Equality Act 2010 does allow claims of associative indirect discrimination (BA v Rollett & Ors, Minister for Women and Equalities intervening [2024] EAT 131). She has also recently been led by Andrew Short KC in the Court of Appeal case of R (on the application of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and others) v (1) HMT and (2) The SoS for the Home Department [2024] Pens. L. R. 10; a pensions, public law and discrimination case where the potential quantum was valued at £19 billion+.

Martina acted for the Respondents in the first Employment Tribunal case to determine that a member of the clergy (assistant curate), had ‘worker’ status for the purposes of bringing a whistleblowing detriment claim, applying the ‘Gilham’ extension applying Article 14 and Article 10 Convention rights. (The Revd. Green v The Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance, Case no 2409635/2022 (17/8/23)).

Martina is also the Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association (ELBA).

Masters (LLM), Labour Law, London School of Economics and Political Science Shortlisted for Advocate’s Bar Pro Bono Junior of the Year 2021