Employment, Professional Discipline & Regulation, Public Law and Inquests

While equally experienced adept in all areas of Employment and Equalities law, Eleena specialises in complex and high value employment / regulatory cases in the healthcare and education sectors, in particular. She regularly appears in Tribunals, Appeal Courts and the High Court including in respect of short notice injunctive relief. She has significant experience in whistleblowing litigation especially in the NHS and in City institutions and in internal investigations and appeals. Eleena founded and headed up the Littleton Chambers’ Professional Discipline Practice Group as a specialist in work straddling Employment and Disciplinary / Regulatory law. After sixteen years there, she moved to Old Square in 2017. Eleena is also trained in Forensic Medicine and accepts instructions in medico-legal cases and inquests. Eleena is extremely client-friendly, responsive and calm in even the most stressful litigation.

Called July 2001 (Middle Temple), Diplock Scholar

Advocacy Trainer (Middle Temple)

Vice-Chair Law Reform Committee and Elected Member of the Bar Council.

Publications:

Blackstones’ Employment Practice 2018 (most recently).

Good working knowledge of French, German and Oriya

ELBA, ELA, ILS, ARDL, PNBA

MA (Oxon) Jurisprudence.

Former President of the Oxford University Law Society.

Hobbies: performing arts, travel and horses.