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Employment
LEADING JUNIORS2Nicola Newbegin – Old Square Chambers 'Nicola is extremely knowledgeable and insightful, and provides astute advice on the technical elements of complex cases. Her advocacy is always precise and persuasive.'
Nicola specialises in employment, discrimination, industrial relations and professional discipline, as well as undertaking related work in the fields of judicial review, human rights and data protection. Nicola practises in all sectors but has particular expertise in the healthcare sector having appeared before all the major healthcare regulators and in a number of the leading high court doctor and dentist cases, including: GMC v Chandra (CA), McMillan v Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (CA); Chakrabarty v Ipswich Hospitals NHS Trust (QBD); and Dusza & Sobhani v Powys Teaching Local Health Board (CA), as well as a number of judicial reviews relating to doctors in training. Nicola regularly appears before the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal, including recently representing the teacher in Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy v Parry before both the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal Nicola also has extensive experience of complex discrimination claims (both employment tribunal and county court) and of multi-claimant and collective disputes.
Keble College, Oxford (Jurisprudence).
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Nicola Newbegin – Old Square Chambers 'Nicola is extremely knowledgeable and insightful, and provides astute advice on the technical elements of complex cases. Her advocacy is always precise and persuasive.'
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Nicola Newbegin –Old Square Chambers ‘An excellent advocate, who delivers her points with accuracy and clarity. She really fights for her client.‘