Employment and discrimination

Hana acts for both claimants and respondents/defendants across the full range of employment and discrimination law matters. Recent instructions include:

• Along with Claire McCann, providing written advice to a climate campaign group on the legal protections available to individuals who conscientiously object to working on projects connected with the fossil fuel industry. The advice is available to read here.

• Successfully acting for a respondent in a four-day discrimination trial.

• Successfully obtaining interim relief on behalf of a claimant, a migrant nurse, in connection with his claim for automatic unfair dismissal against a healthcare company. Media coverage of the case can be found here and here.

• Successfully acting on behalf of a respondent in an application to strike out a complaint of refusal to provide services on grounds related to trade union membership.  

• Drafting particulars of claim in a claim for race discrimination, sex discrimination and breach of contract.

• Along with Schona Jolly KC, providing written advice to a charity on the discrimination law implications of intended internal staff resources.  

Hana has a particular interest in the intersection between employment law and human rights, having obtained a master’s degree in human rights law with distinction from LSE.

Personal injury and clinical negligence

Hana accepts instructions from claimants in personal injury and clinical negligence matters. During her pupillage, she received training in drafting schedules of loss for high-value catastrophic injury claims.

Prior to Cloisters

Prior to joining Cloisters, Hana worked in the Court of Appeal as a judicial assistant to Lord Burnett of Maldon, then Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. She worked on a wide range of appeals, including Mercer v Alternative Future Group [2022] EWCA Civ 379,which concerned the compatibility of s.146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 with Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.  

Hana is a fluent Welsh speaker. She welcomes instructions from all parts of the UK, including Wales.

Qualifications

Bar Vocational Studies (Distinction) – City, University of London

LLM Human Rights Law (Distinction) – LSE

BA Law (First Class) – University of Cambridge

Junior Scarman Scholarship for second-highest mark on the Bar course – City, University of London

Birkenhead and Residential Scholarships – Gray’s Inn

Otto Kahn Freund Prize for performance on the LLM – LSE

King’s Scholar – King’s College, University of Cambridge

ELA, Member

ILS, Member

Gray’s Inn, Member