Katherine Eddy

Ranked in 2 Practice Areas

Band 3

Education

London (Bar)

11 Years Ranked

Band 4

Employment

London (Bar)

5 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Katherine Eddy

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Katherine is an experienced senior junior, whose practice spans employment, education and public law. She is regularly instructed as sole counsel in complex and high value whistleblowing and discrimination claims in the Employment Tribunal. She also acts for and against departing employees, directors and partners in business protection claims, including bonus disputes and restraint of trade cases. She has considerable experience in the financial services sector, as well as in the higher education sector. Her recent public law cases include F v Surrey [2023] 4 WLR 45 (a challenge to a local authority’s policy on access to residential alcohol detoxification treatment), R (Kays) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2023) 26 C.C.L. Rep. 97 (an appeal to the Court of Appeal challenging the regime governing disabled students’ access to universal credit) and R (Good Law Project) v Secretary of State for Education and others [2022] EWHC 1158 (Admin) (a challenge concerning whether local authorities were taking sufficient steps to secure accommodation in their areas for looked after children). She is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel.

Career

Called to the bar in 2009; Inner Temple.

Professional Memberships

ELA, ELBA, COMBAR.

Personal

Queen’s University, Canada (BA Hons); King’s College, Cambridge (MPhil); Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil); City University (PgDipL).

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

UK-Bar

Education - London (Bar)

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Katherine Eddy is a well-known education barrister with considerable experience in disputes, especially those involving public law, contract law and employment law aspects. She has a strong practice around public and private law education claims and particular experience of higher education cases.

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Employment - London (Bar)

Band 4

Individual Editorial

Katherine Eddy is an accomplished employment barrister who is admired for her knowledge of discrimination and whistle-blowing cases, including those arising in the financial services sector. She is also well-versed in restrictive covenant cases.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Katherine Eddy is ferociously intelligent. She sees the cases in detail but also sees the wider picture in a way that is unique to her. She is a very robust advocate with a strong forensic style.

Education respondent
UK-Bar

Katherine Eddy is ferociously intelligent and is one of the sharpest barristers I have ever worked with.

Employment respondent
UK-Bar

Katherine is a quiet assassin in cross-examination.

Employment respondent
UK-Bar

Katherine is really perceptive and a smart operator.

Employment respondent
UK-Bar

Katherine Eddy is ferociously intelligent. She sees the cases in detail but also sees the wider picture in a way that is unique to her. She is a very robust advocate with a strong forensic style.

Education respondent
UK-Bar

Katherine Eddy is ferociously intelligent and is one of the sharpest barristers I have ever worked with.

Employment respondent
UK-Bar

Katherine is a quiet assassin in cross-examination.

Employment respondent
UK-Bar

Katherine is really perceptive and a smart operator.

Employment respondent
UK-Bar

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Katherine Eddy

UK Bar Guide 2025

Education + 1 more ranking

About

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Professional Memberships

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UK-Bar

Education - London (Bar)

Individual Editorial

Employment - London (Bar)

Individual Editorial

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