At 2TG our people are hard-working, forward-thinking and approachable. We believe our supportive culture is one of our greatest strengths.
With the set comprising around 60 barristers, we know each other well and work effectively together. We often operate in large teams with clients. Our practice management team is modern and commercial, matching barrister experience thoughtfully to clients’ requirements.
At 2TG our barristers are expert in a broad range of complementary practice areas and we enjoy repeat instructions from a variety of loyal clients.
Practised advocates from the start, all our Silks and the vast majority of our Junior barristers are recognised as leaders in their chosen fields. Many of us are at the forefront of shaping the law in our specialist areas and we pride ourselves in having excellent industry knowledge.
At 2TG our barristers have excellent experience acting across a range of industry sectors and we are able to offer advice in an informed and commercial context.
Our combination of practice area excellence and industry expertise means we possess real insight into the commercial realities facing our clients operating in these areas. Secondment plays an important part of our commitment to developing our skills and understanding.
2TG is home to award-winning accredited mediators, arbitrators, adjudicators and experts with considerable experience of alternative dispute resolution.
Our barristers are also skilled as advocates in different alternative dispute resolution procedures and work strategically with clients to understand their commercial objectives, and then to resolve litigation as cost-effectively and expeditiously as possible.
Work with an international dimension forms a significant part of many barristers’ work at 2TG.
We appear in international courts and arbitral tribunals all over the world, frequently acting on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. We are particularly well-known for managing cross border litigation on matters of jurisdiction and applicable law and appear regularly in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.
At 2TG, in addition to our professional advice, we are recognised for our excellent contribution to education and development. We provide regular high-quality training.
Our reputation among the legal profession and other clients for our first-rate webinars and in-person conferences is very important to us. We also contribute frequently at industry events and as editors of leading texts and authors on topics of legal interest.
Niazi Fetto KC specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence and employment.
‘Outstanding… He has a tireless work-ethic, a fierce intelligence and puts clients completely at ease’ (Legal 500, 2023). Niazi took silk in 2023, having long been recommended as a leading junior in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500, and shortlisted for Chambers and Partners Personal Injury Junior of the Year.
His current caseload includes Green v MOD, a claim by a former Army officer that the misdiagnosis of an exertional heat injury led to a destabilisation of his neurological or psychiatric condition such that he went on to commit murder and attempted murder, and V v MOD, a sex discrimination claim alleging mismanagement of a female former soldier after she accused a colleague of rape.
Niazi is also a group litigation specialist. He was lead junior in the successful defence by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation, the largest group action ever brought against the UK Government, and has since acted in multiple claims relating to the alleged abuse of child migrants during the 1950s and 1960s, and the potentially addicting effects of a specific class of antidepressant medications.
Niazi’s expertise lends itself particularly well to claims for injuries and diseases in an occupational or institutional context. He is regularly instructed in claims alleging discrimination/harassment/ bullying, and in industrial disease claims, including occupational exposure to asbestos, other hazardous substances and noise. He represented the successful defendant in the Court of Appeal in Sivaji v MOD [2021] EWCA Civ 1163, an asbestos mesothelioma claim.
He is also sought after for inquests and inquiries work corresponding with his areas of specialism. His recent instructions include the Inquest into the death of Richard Morris (2022) and the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
Niazi has a broad and thriving employment law practice, with an emphasis on discrimination. His notable cases include H v MOD (2022 – sexual assault working abroad – discrimination, vicarious liability – appeal pending), Brookes v GLS [2017] IRLR 780 (disability discrimination – autism spectrum disorder, psychometric testing), and Naeem v SoS for Justice [2016] ICR 289 (indirect discrimination – race and religion – disparate impact and justification).
Niazi has extensive experience in substantial claims in all areas, with particular emphasis upon employer’s liability for accidents and stress at work and industrial injury and illness litigation.
AD v Home Office 2022
Multi-milion pound claim arising out of alleged unlawful immigration detention of Sri Lankan sexual abuse victim.
Sivaji v MOD [2021] EWCA Civ 1163
Represented MOD in appeal from rulings under ‘show cause’ procedure in Singapore-based asbestos mesothelioma claim.
Child migration claims [2018-2021]
Represented the Department for Health and Social Care in claims alleging abuse of migrated children during the 1950s and 1960s.
Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation [2016-2018]
Group action by 40,000 “Mau Mau” and related claimants alleging UK Government responsibility for alleged mistreatment during the Kenyan Emergency in the 1950s.
Pascoe v MoD LTL [2013]
Noise-induced hearing loss – hearing loss at 6KHz not noise-induced despite meeting Coles criteria.
Drysdale v Hedges [2012] 3 EGLR 105
Landlord’s liability for personal injury to tenant; ambit of Defective Premises Act; scope of “immunity” derived from Cavalier v Pope.
Niazi is regularly instructed in complex and high-value clinical negligence litigation, including claims with a product liability aspect.
Shaw v MOD [2021]
Claim for loss of specialist naval diving career consequential upon alleged negligence in assessing for colour perception.
Green v MOD [2020]
Representing MOD in claim alleging misdiagnosis of training injury led to brain and/or psychiatric disturbance and associated extreme criminal behaviour.
Falkenberg v MOD & Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust [2018]
Complex neurological injury allegedly due to negligently performed corrective right foot surgery.
Pratt v MoD & Rogers [2016]
Whether MoD and/or locum practitioner at military medical centre liable for alleged catastrophic renal failure of officer deployed in Germany.
Trans-vaginal mesh claims [2015-2017]
Various cases addressing the safety of trans-vaginal “mesh” products and associated treatment concerns.
Niazi has considerable product liability experience, particularly in cases involving injury caused by allegedly defective medical devices, pharmaceutical products and medicines.
The nature of these cases means that many are run as group actions and across borders. He is accordingly expert at running large-scale, international litigation in relation to clinical equipment and pharmaceutical products.
He also has other experience of product liability matters arising out of personal injury claims.
The Seroxat Group Litigation
Product liability action relating to the safety of the SSRI antidepressant Seroxat (paroxetine).
Kistensamy v Leech & Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust [2017]
Claim arising from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome suffered due to allergy to allopurinol – alleged inadequate warning by prescriber and negligent treatment of reaction at hospital.
Trans-vaginal mesh claims [2015-2017]
Various cases addressing the safety of trans-vaginal “mesh” products and associated treatment concerns.
Niazi is also highly regarded for his experience in dealing with Group Litigation and he has been instructed in many high-profile actions over the past few years. Due to the nature of the disputes generally at the heart of group litigation, there is much overlap with his work in healthcare, product liability, personal injury and human rights.
Child migration claims [2018-2021]
Represented the Department for Health and Social Care in claims alleging abuse of migrated children during the 1950s and 1960s.
Trans-vaginal mesh claims [2015-2017]
Various cases addressing the safety of trans-vaginal “mesh” products and associated treatment concerns.
Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation [2016-2018]
Group action by 40,000 “Mau Mau” and related claimants alleging UK Government responsibility for alleged mistreatment during the Kenyan Emergency in the 1950s.
The Seroxat Group Litigation
Product liability action relating to the safety of the SSRI antidepressant Seroxat (paroxetine).
Niazi acts for and advises claimants and respondents in all areas of employment law, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, harassment, redundancy, ill-health retirement, flexible working, transfer of undertakings, pensions, and human rights issues.
Highly experienced in employment-related personal injury litigation, particularly cases concerning health and safety at work, stress, bullying and harassment.
H v MOD [2022]
Vicarious liability for sexual assault when posted abroad; jurisdiction; alleged sex and sexual orientation discrimination, victimisation and harassment by chain of command.
V v MOD; H v MOD [2019]
Whether management of former soldiers by chain of command following allegations of rape and sexual assault entailed sex discrimination and/or victimisation.
Naeem v Secretary of State for Justice [2016] ICR 289
Whether pay scheme for prison chaplains indirectly discriminatory on grounds of race or religion.
Fanis & Ricciardi v DWP [2013] London South ET
Lead claims addressing reason for dismissal at conclusion of civil service fixed-term contracts – whether entitled to redundancy payment.
Appeal pending.
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“Niazi is an excellent advocate with very extensive knowledge.” “He is a very pleasant and very able barrister who really knows his stuff.” “Niazi is an intelligent, articulate and charming guy.” “Niazi is a classy operator. He is intelligent, thoughtful and urbane.” “His knowledge of the specialist demands of group litigation is thorough, and his advice on the strategic approach is deft and astute. His considerable expertise in personal injury is plain to see.”
Chambers UK 2025
“Niazi is quick to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the client’s case and his oral and written advice is always crystal clear. His knowledge and understanding of the case law in the niche area of claims relating to discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief is outstanding.” “Niazi is a very accomplished advocate, who is both persuasive and always very well prepared”
Legal 500 2025
“Niazi is very experienced and sensible, a high-quality advocate who knows his stuff.” “Niazi has an easy manner with experts and witnesses, with great technical knowledge.” “His written advocacy and oral advocacy are very good.”
Chambers UK 2024
“Experienced, a strong tactician and trusted by clients.” “Niazi is an outstanding junior. He has a tireless work-ethic, a fierce intelligence and puts clients completely at ease.”
Legal 500 2024
“Niazi is very careful and completely on top of the detail of the cases.” “He is a great advocate.”
Chambers UK 2023
“Niazi is an outstanding junior. He has a tireless work-ethic, a fierce intelligence and puts clients completely at ease.”
Legal 500 2023
“Excellent. He has a manner that inspires confidence, is well prepared and very technically good.” “An outstandingly impressive senior junior with a very practical analytical ability.”
Chambers UK 2022
“A most impressive lawyer and advocate, who has a calm and reassuring presence but is never slow to point out a potential problem and offer a solution.”
Legal 500 2022
“He is unflappable in court and provides excellent advice” “He is very diligent and manages to grasp very complicated scientific facts and translate them into easily understood concepts”
Chambers UK 2021
“Has a quiet determination to succeed which is realised”
Legal 500 2021
“A phenomenal junior”
Chambers UK 2020
“His knowledge of coronial process/law is vast”
Legal 500 2020
“He’s brilliant; he has an excellent combination of personal charm and good judgement” “He has a measured but persistently persuasive delivery at hearings and responds to enquiries promptly and helpfully”
Chambers UK 2019
“Excellent, through and has a great client manner” “He is everything you’d want in a barrister; sensible, bright, hard-working and thoughtful”
Chambers UK 2018
“A very able barrister, capable of grasping difficult issues and presenting them clearly and with conviction”
Legal 500 2017
“He has a very calm, reassuring and pleasant manner which makes him very easy to work with”
Legal 500 2016