Jen Coyne
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 6 : Employment
Band 6
About
Provided by Jen Coyne
Practice Areas
Employment, administrative & procurement and data protection.
Varied practice, at the intersection of commercial and public law. Experience across the spectrum of employment disputes, with an emphasis on whistleblowing and discrimination (including equal pay: the high-value Tesco litigation). Advises and acts for both public bodies (from local authorities to regulators such as the FCA and NHSI) and challengers in regulatory and procurement matters. Expertise in data protection including defending complex multi-party data breach claims (the Transform Hospital litigation).
Instructed as sole counsel (up to the Court of Appeal - Moss v ICO [2020] EWCA Civ 580) and as a junior in larger counsel teams.
Career
Called to the Bar 2016 (Karmel Scholar and Bedingfield Scholar, Gray’s Inn).
Member of the Attorney General’s C Panel of Treasury Counsel.
First Class BA(Hons), University of Oxford. Distinction MSc, London School of Economics.
Professional Memberships
ELA, ALBA, PLA.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Jen Coyne is an impressive barrister who operates a highly respected employment practice spanning multiple areas. She is adept at cases involving discrimination, harassment, whistle-blowing and equal pay.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is an outstanding junior. She is very robust and her strategy and tactics are beyond her years. She is one of the more commercial barristers I work with."
"She is an outstanding junior. She is very robust and her strategy and tactics are beyond her years. She is one of the more commercial barristers I work with."
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