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About
Provided by Eleena Misra KC
Practice Areas
Employment, Professional Discipline & Regulation, Public Law and Inquests.
Career
Eleena specialises in complex, high value and high-profile employment and regulatory cases, especially in the healthcare and education sectors. She has significant experience in dealing with sensitive discrimination claims requiring careful witness handling skills often with associated High Court, appellate or regulatory litigation. Eleena has broad and deep commercial and public law experience in cases of substance across the full spectrum of employment work at both the advisory and advocacy stages, for clients ranging from law firms and banks to local authorities, senior executives and public sector workers. Eleena has notable expertise in and a calm leadership approach to time sensitive and stressful High Court injunctions / speedy trials, such as in confidential information and MHPS (healthcare) cases. Eleena holds a qualification in Forensic Medicine and accepts instructions in medico-legal cases and inquests. In addition, Eleena is often sought out for difficult investigations (especially involving sexual misconduct) and lectures in her specialist areas of work. Eleena is the Chair of the Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council and an experienced Advocacy Trainer and member of the Professional Discipline Committee at Middle Temple.
Recent clients include universities, a premiership football club, large unions, the NHS, healthcare regulators, the emergency services, Big 4 accountancy and private international equity firms.
Professional Memberships
ELBA, ELA, ILS, ARDL.
Publications
Blackstones’ Employment Law Practice
Civil Procedure and Tribunals
Personal
MA (Oxon) Jurisprudence.
DipFSM (Barts / QMUL)
Called July 2001 (Middle Temple), Diplock Scholar
Silk 2023
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Eleena Misra KC practises broadly in public and private employment law and has noted expertise in educational and healthcare-related issues. She demonstrates deep experience acting in disciplinary and regulatory matters and has a strong understanding of discrimination laws.
Eleena Misra KC acts for both regulators and individuals in the healthcare sector. She has experience in high-profile matters, covering fitness-to-practise investigations and misconduct hearings, typically involving senior medical staff.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eleena is a brilliant barrister, a phenomenal advocate and is wonderful to work with."
"Eleena always gives 100% to a case and achieves good results. She works well with solicitors and clients and is very down-to-earth. She shows great acumen in race and sex discrimination work."
"Eleena shows really good attention to detail and has great knowledge of the law, as well as really good people skills. She is a good calibre counsel, who is used to dealing with thorny, knotty issues."
"Eleena is a sophisticated barrister with great vision. Her general level of service is very high and her advocacy is very strong."
"Eleena is a brilliant barrister, a phenomenal advocate and is wonderful to work with."
"Eleena always gives 100% to a case and achieves good results. She works well with solicitors and clients and is very down-to-earth. She shows great acumen in race and sex discrimination work."
"Eleena shows really good attention to detail and has great knowledge of the law, as well as really good people skills. She is a good calibre counsel, who is used to dealing with thorny, knotty issues."
"Eleena is a sophisticated barrister with great vision. Her general level of service is very high and her advocacy is very strong."
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