Employment, Pensions

Barrister specialising in Employment and Pensions.

Called to Bar, Middle Temple 2001.

Naomi Ling has over twenty years’ experience as an advocate and is sought after as a specialist in both employment law and pensions law and in particular the area of cross-over between the two.

Her practice covers a wide range of fields. In the employment tribunal she deals with cases including multiparty discrimination, equal pay and holiday pay claims, and complex and sensitive discrimination and whistleblowing claims.

In the High Court she is instructed on black letter pensions trusts issues, and other commercial matters in the pensions and employment spheres including liability for TUPE issues and employment related entitlements.

She is also experienced in Human Rights, public law and professional negligence issues across her areas of specialism.

She appears regularly in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

Naomi was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel of counsel in September 2020.

She was shortlisted for ‘Employment Law Junior of the Year’ in the Chambers and Partners Bar Awards 2022.

Recent highlights include:

representing a pensions trustee in the important case of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Beattie, concerning the interpretation of the European Union Withdrawal Act, and the temporal limitation regarding service prior to 1 December 2006 for discrimination claims against pension schemes; representing over 800 claimants in the case of Turley v Felixstowe Port in a claim for holiday pay, regarding the circumstances in which pay for voluntary overtime falls to be calculated as part of holiday pay. defending the Department of Transport as specialist pensions counsel within an 11-strong team against a claim by Stagecoach and others in respect of the 2019 Rail Franchising procurement process.

Naomi has been described as ‘a brilliant legal mind’, ‘tenacious and driven’ and ‘fearless in litigation’. She is also said to have ‘great client care skills’ and enjoys working as part of a team and forging a mutually supportive relationship with professional and lay clients alike.

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Attorney General’s A panel of Counsel Employment Law Bar Association Employment Law Association Industrial Law Society Association of Pension Lawyers

Sutton High School; Jesus College, Oxford (1998 BA Hons); City University (2000 Diploma in Law).