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.
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