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About
Provided by Sophia Berry
Practice Areas
Sophia specialises in employment and commercial law. Sophia has also been instructed on injunction applications in the High Court recently, both in her own right and as junior counsel. These include urgent applications resulting from breach of restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties and misuse of confidential information as well as an application to restrain threatened industrial action (Argos v Unite the Union [2017]). Sophia also has a keen interest in whistleblowing, equal pay and discrimination claims and has appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal on numerous occasions. Most recently, she successfully defended an important appeal relating to time limits in discrimination claims (Edomobi v La Retraite RC Girls School [2016] UKEAT 0180_16_1511).
Career
Called 2012; Initially qualified as a Solicitor at Linklaters LLP in 2011.
Sophia read law at Cambridge University and has a Masters degree in law from King’s College London. She was awarded the Dickson Poon School of Law Prize for attaining the highest marks of any student on the Masters course and the PwC Prize for the best dissertation written by a Masters student.
LLM, King’s College London – Distinction
BA in Law, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge – 1
Professional Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
Commercial Bar Association (Combar)
Chancery Bar Association (ChBA)
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Sophia Berry is a specialist in employment, general commercial and partnership law, capable of handling matters where these areas intersect. She has experience of tackling high-value partnership matters, and has advised LLPs, partnerships and departing partners.
Sophia Berry is admired for her employment practice before the tribunals and the High Court. She has a strong command of commercial employment matters as well as equality law.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"You won't find a harder-working or more devoted junior than Sophia Berry."
"Sophia Berry is fantastic. She is a very calming presence and really knows what she's doing. Her clients have absolute confidence in her."
"Sophiais extremely bright. Her written work and research are impressive. Clients appreciate her pragmatic and supportive approach."
"Sophia is absolutely superb."
"Her advocacy is very clear, no nonsense, credible and persuasive. Her written work is very good; it's compelling and presents clear arguments."
"You won't find a harder-working or more devoted junior than Sophia Berry."
"Sophia Berry is fantastic. She is a very calming presence and really knows what she's doing. Her clients have absolute confidence in her."
"Sophiais extremely bright. Her written work and research are impressive. Clients appreciate her pragmatic and supportive approach."
"Sophia is absolutely superb."
"Her advocacy is very clear, no nonsense, credible and persuasive. Her written work is very good; it's compelling and presents clear arguments."
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