Rehana Azib KC

Rehana Azib KC specialises in personal injury and employment law, especially occupational stress, harassment, and discrimination claims. She is the Head of Chambers’ Employment Team and a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple.

“A very skilful advocate who is formidably intelligent and very hard-working” (Chambers & Partners), Rehana is recommended as a leading Junior in both employment and personal injury in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. She is Head of Chambers’ Employment Team, and was elected a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple in July 2019. Rehana co-authored “Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims” (Bloomsbury Professional, 2012 and due for re-publication in 2021), a Practitioners’ Guide, combining her expertise in both personal injury and employment law. She has particular expertise in dealing with crossover stress, harassment and discrimination claims in personal injury and employment law, including dealing with discrimination in sports. She is on the Independent Panel investigating the allegations of race discrimination complaints by Cricketer Azeem Rafiq against Yorkshire County Cricket Club, as documented in the press.

She is an Accredited Advocacy Trainer and Teacher Trainer for the Inner Temple, teaching advocacy nationally and internationally, including at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Rehana frequently teaches cross-examination of expert witnesses. She co-authored the Inner temple’s Advocacy Training Manual. She is Course Director of the Pupils’ Advocacy Training Programme at the Inner Temple and a member of the Education and Training and Advocacy Training Committees. In July 2019, she was named by the The Lawyer publication as one of the top 3 busiest female juniors at the Employment Bar, in the EAT.

Rehana is Patron of Bird & Bird’s Bursary Foundation and has been a guest speaker on BBC World News and the BBC World Service on equality issues in the workplace. She was a specialist panel speaker at the BBC’s 100 Women of the Century Event in October 2013, which was broadcast internationally. She won the National Asian Women of Achievement Award in 2009 for Young Achiever of the Year and has been featured in the International Asian Who’s Who Guide since 2012.

Rehana deals with cases in the High Court, ET, EAT and Court of Appeal. Reported cases include NAS v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2019] 4 WLUK 319 (EAT), Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust v Miss N Uddin [2019] 12 WLUK 1 (EAT), Puthenveetil v Alexander and Secretary of State for BEI [2018] 1 WLUK 549 (EAT), Yovonie v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2018] LTL (High Court), Bone v North Essex Partnership NHS Trust (Court of Appeal) [2016] IRLR 295, Nambalat v Tayeb and Ors (Court of Appeal) [2012] All ER (D) 62, [2012] IRLR 1004, Mohammed Najib v John Laing PLC (High Court) [2011] All ER (D) 203 and Julio v Jose and Others (EAT) 2012 [IRLR] 180, [2012] All ER (D) 100.

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