Park Square Barristers

Employment, Commercial & Chancery, Personal Injury, Regulatory & Public, Criminal

Employment

Ranked in The Legal 500 (2025) for Employment and ‘Up and Coming’ in Chambers and Partners (2025) for Employment.

Chelsea is an experienced practitioner specialising in Employment Law and is the head of the Employment Team.

Before embarking on a career in law Chelsea was a very successful business owner. Being an employer, Chelsea developed a keen interest in Employment Law, which fuelled her ambition to join the Bar. Chelsea quickly developed experience in Employment Litigation through pro bono and consultancy work she undertook with various employment firms in Leeds before starting her pupillage at Park Square Barristers.

Chelsea has a busy employment practice and undertakes both advisory and litigation work in the Tribunals and County Courts. She regularly represents claimants and respondents across all levels of work, from preliminary hearings, judicial mediations to multi-week trials. She has become a main source of referral to advise on the merits of successful claims, on behalf of insurance companies.

She has experience across the range of employment matters. She has advised and acted in claims involving:

• Unfair dismissal (including automatic unfair dismissal and constructive unfair dismissal)
• All forms of discrimination (direct and indirect discrimination, failure to make reasonable adjustments, and harassment)
• Whistleblowing
• Equal pay
• Unlawful deduction from wages
• Worker status
• Redundancy
• National Minimum Wage
• Breach of contract (in the Employment Tribunal and County Court)

Chelsea’s paper and advisory practice ranges from pleadings, opinions and policy drafting, covering both black letter law and topical matters such as social media, dress code policies and flexible working. She is familiar with exit negotiations and settlement agreements on behalf of employees and employers, as well as advising during disciplinary and/or grievance processes.

Training

Chelsea is happy to offer the delivery of in-house seminars and training for both employers, HR Practices and Solicitor’s Firms.

Paper Practice

Chelsea accepts instructions to draft pleadings and is happy to provide pre-action advice on the merits of individual cases. She is happy to work to short deadlines where papers need to be turned around quickly.

Public Access

Chelsea may accept Public Access work, where she can be instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor.

Property

Prior to commencing pupillage, Chelsea was employed as a Litigation Executive, where she gained extensive experience in civil, commercial and chancery litigation.

Chelsea also grew a healthy clientele within property litigation. She has advised and represented clients in boundary disputes, landlord and tenant disputes, leasehold disputes, possession claims and housing disrepair. Recently she has successfully represented the Claimant in a complex building construction dispute where the issues involved both breach of Building Regulations, the Building Contract and the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982.

Regulatory & Public

Chelsea is an experienced Regulatory Practitioner.

Chelsea has experience in all matters which touch upon the work of the police, having spent considerable time on secondment at the Humberside Police and South Yorkshire Police in their legal departments.

She has a keen interest and specialisation of matters involving the police, both on behalf of the force and police officers. She is regularly instructed by the Chief Constable from a range of forces, specialising in firearms/shotgun appeals under the Firearms Act 1968, Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Forced Marriage Protection Orders and Employment Law matters. She also has experience in actions against the police involving allegations of false imprisonment, personal injury claims, malicious prosecution and cases arising out of the seizure and disposal of property.

She also has experience representing in private prosecutions on behalf of both the Prosecution and the Defendant. Chelsea has recently been instructed to represent the Defendant in a prosecution by the RSPCA involving allegations of animal cruelty. She has also recently appeared on behalf of the Insolvency Services prosecuting a high-profile Fraud case. Click here for media coverage.

Chelsea also has a keen interest in Professional Misconduct Cases which contributes to her employment practice. Chelsea is developing a Police Misconduct Practice and is willing to represent any professional facing misconduct proceedings. Chelsea is able to represent parties at Police Misconduct Hearings, Special Case Hearings and Police Disciplinary Appeals across the country. She has extensive knowledge of the procedures involved prior to the hearing, e.g. arguments relating to evidence admissibility, and is able to advise swiftly on the same in order to achieve the most favourable outcome.

At the beginning of her tenancy Chelsea became a member of the ‘junior junior’ panel for Government Legal Department which involves drafting various documents on behalf of the GLD in a range of matters such as inquests.

Recently Chelsea has commenced the Coronial Course at the University of Bolton and will be expected to obtain a Certificate of Attendance. Chelsea has experience of Coronial Law and accepts instructs to represent Interested Parties in Inquests.

Chelsea has also developed a healthy criminal practice. She regularly appears on behalf of both the Prosecution and the Defence and is a Grade 1 Prosecutor. She quickly developed a healthy defence practice particularly for members of the Armed Forces appearing at the Court Martial.

Call 2017

Appointments: 2019 Grade 1 Prosecutor