Employment Law and Human Rights: (3rd Revised edition)

Robin Allen QC is co-Head of Cloisters Barristers Chambers and Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity and Social Mobility Committee. He specialises in employment, equality, discrimination, human rights, public law and local authority work. He works across the UK and in Europe and also undertakes cross - border employment disputes. He is frequently asked to advise and lecture on international legal developments. Robin has been instructed in over 145 reported cases in the Industrial Relations Law Reports (more than any other barrister) and 40 cases in the Supreme Court/House of Lords.Rachel Crasnow QC is renowned as an employment and discrimination law specialist appearing in complex, high-value claims involving race, age, sex and sexual orientation, disability and religion as well as equal pay and whistleblowing cases. Rachel represents a wide variety of clients and her work often overlaps with medical and regulatory law, education and public law issues. She is an accredited mediator and sits as a part time judge. Long-rated as a leading practitioner in the legal directories, Rachel also writes and lectures both in the UK and internationally on equality law issues.Anna Beale specialises in all aspects of employment and discrimination law, and also maintains a personal injury and clinical negligence practice. She has been recommended by the leading UK Bar directories for many years and in 2017 was listed as one of Who's Who Legal's ten most highly regarded employment juniors. She has authored, edited and contributed to numerous publications on employment and discrimination law. Claire McCann has been ranked for many years in the UK's leading legal directories and is highly respected both for her employment practice and her civil liberties and human rights work. She is particularly renowned for her equality work and has a niche specialism in transgender rights and informational privacy. She has contributed to a number of publications on employment and discrimination law and lectures widely on these topics.Rachel Barrett is a barrister at Cloisters. She specialises in employment, discrimination and human rights law with a particular focus on mental health. She is a former Supreme Court judicial assistant, a contributing author to Supperstone, Goudie & Walker: Judicial Review ('Human Rights Act' chapter) and Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings ('Employment Tribunal' and 'Employment Proceedings in the High Court' chapters), and a named researcher in Baroness Hale's book on Mental Health Law.