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Helen Barney
Work Department
Employment.
Position
Practices exclusively in the field of employment law. She has comprehensive experience of all areas of employment law to include complex discrimination complaints, TUPE and contractual disputes. Her practice covers both claimant and respondent work, in the public and private sector. Clients include local authorities, NHS Trusts, police, multi-national companies, union and insurance supported claimants. She regularly appears before the ET in multi-day cases and in lengthy discrimination complaints. She has also appeared before the EAT in a variety of disputes and provides practical and pragmatic advice on employment matters.
Career
Called 1999 (Lincoln’s Inn).
Memberships
Discrimination Lawyers Association; ELBA.
Education
LLB (Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Helen Barney – No5 Barristers’ Chambers ‘Helen is extremely thorough and conscientious especially on very complex matters, of which she forms a detailed view in a short time after picking up instructions. She is extremely knowledgeable and reliable and her witness care is outstanding.’
No5 Barristers’ Chambers is well known as a ‘strong employment set with a good choice of counsel across all years of call’. Helen Barney is regularly instructed by NHS trusts, local authorities, and private companies, with strength handling grievance investigations. Charles Crow, praised for his ‘strong and persuasive advocacy skills’, has considerable experience in the healthcare, social care, education, housing, and banking sectors. With broad expertise covering TUPE, equal pay, and discrimination claims, Mugni Islam-Choudhury leads the team. He has recently been instructed by the respondent in Basra v University of East London, defending against 75 separate allegations of sex and race discrimination brought by a lecturer in the creative writing department. In 2023 ‘fabulous advocate’ Richard Hignett acted for the claimant in Record v Barclays Bank, a sex discrimination claim brought by a senior wealth manager dismissed for gross misconduct following allegations of sexual harassment by female colleagues.