Jane Russell

Practice Areas

Jane is ranked as a top tier leading Junior for Employment in Legal 500 and is described by Chambers and Partners as “extremely bright, very approachable and very quick to respond”, as having “really brilliant expertise in the law” and being “really good at communicating it”.

Jane specialises in employment law: discrimination and whistleblowing, breaches of confidence and fiduciary duty, injunctions and industrial action.

Jane accepts arbitral appointments and acts as mediator and adjudicator.

Jane is regularly instructed in high-profile, sensitive and complex matters. Her recent instructions include: acting for Garden Court in the high-profile case of Bailey v Stonewall and Garden Court concerning discrimination because of gender critical beliefs; acting for NFU Cymru in a Judicial Review against the Welsh Government’s plans to introduce new environmental rules; acting for the UK Government in a case in the Court of Appeal concerning the rights of foster carers; acting for the UK Government in a case about whether the withdrawal of certain services by prison officers was unlawful.

Jane was appointed to the Attorney General’s “A” Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2020. She has acted on a range of matters for the United Kingdom Government in the High Court and tribunals.

She is a regular speaker on employment matters on radio station LBC and has appeared on the Nick Ferrari and Ian Dale shows.

Jane is a committee member of both the Employment Law Barristers Association and the European Circuit.