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Rehana Azib KC

Call 2003 | Silk 2022

"A class act"

Chambers UK 2024
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Expertise

Rehana is the Head of Chambers’ Employment Group. She has an extremely busy practice in all areas of employment law. In July 2019, she was named by The Lawyer as being in the Top 3 busiest female juniors in the EAT at the Employment Bar. She is on the Independent Panel investigating the allegations of race discrimination complaints by Cricketer Azeem Rafiq against Yorkshire County Cricket Club, as documented in the press.

Two of her cases are the leading authorities in their specialist areas (Bone v NEP, TULRCA 1992 and Nambalat v Tayeb and Others, NMW 1999). “Formidable work ethic and intelligence” (Legal 500, 2014), Rehana has been recommended as a leading Junior in the Legal 500 since 2010. She is an impressive and highly sought after advocate with an excellent record of trial and appeal victories, and who is highly respected for her handling of particularly sensitive cases involving public interest disclosure, fraud and abuse. She has a variety of clients ranging from the NHS and local government to international companies in the commercial, media, medical, financial and insurance fields.

Rehana has extensive experience of cross-examining medical experts and dealing with complex medical evidence. She has taught cross-examination of expert witnesses to practising barristers as an Accredited Advanced Advocacy Trainer for the Inner Temple since 2012. She has taught internationally including at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Rehana is therefore able to deal with complex medical evidence arising in disability discrimination and personal injury claims.

Rehana has particular expertise in occupational stress, harassment and discrimination claims, drawing on her experience of working in mental health prior to coming to the Bar. Rehana deals with numerous psychiatric injury claims involving both Employment Tribunal and County Court proceedings, and is able to deal with these dual claims equally effectively due to her high level of expertise in both employment law and personal injury. She is co-author of the book “Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims” (Bloomsbury Professional 2012), a specific guide for both personal injury and employment law practitioners which includes valuable guidance on litigating claims including occupational stress, statutory harassment, and disability discrimination issues. She has also appeared on international TV and radio as a guest speaker on equality issues.

Notable Employment cases

Nasser Arjomand-Sissan v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (2019) EAT - LTL 18/4/2019: [2019] 4 WLUK 319

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust v N Uddin(2018) EAT - LTL 7/3/2019: [2019] 12 WLUK 1

Yovonie v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust(2018) High Court - [2018] EWHC 2328 (QB): LTL 3/8/2018 EXTEMPORE

KPK Puthenveettil v (1) S Alexander (2) RJ George (3) Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy(2018) EAT – LTL 25/4/2018: [2018] 1 WLUK 549

Yovonie v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Lawtel, High Court

Garamukanwa v Solent NHS Trust [2016] IRLR 476

Bone v North Essex Partnership NHS Trust (Court of Appeal) [2016] IRLR 295

Yovonie v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2016] 2 WLUK 692

Nambalat v Tayeb & Ors(Court of Appeal) [2012] All ER (D) 62, [2012] IRLR 1004

Mohammed Najib v John Laing PLC(High Court) [2011] All ER (D) 203

Julio v Jose & Others (EAT) 2012 [IRLR] 180, [2012] All ER (D) 100

Rehana regularly deals with complex and high value personal injury matters in both the County Court and High Court. She has particular expertise in dealing with occupational stress, harassment and bullying cases and is a specialist in this area of personal injury law. Rehana worked in mental health prior to coming to the Bar and is able to draw on this expertise when dealing with such cases. Rehana has special expertise in dealing with discrimination and harassment arising in sport, both from a personal injury angle, and an employment law angle. She is on the Independent Panel investigating the allegations of race discrimination complaints by Cricketer Azeem Rafiq against Yorkshire County Cricket Club, as documented in the press.

Rehana frequently deals with personal injury claims in the High Court, and claims high value claims of over £1 million.

Rehana deals with numerous psychiatric injury claims involving both Employment Tribunal and County Court proceedings, and is able to deal with these dual claims equally effectively due to her high level of expertise in both employment law and personal injury. She is co-author of the book “Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims” (Bloomsbury Professional 2012, due for republication in 2021), a specific guide for both personal injury and employment law practitioners which includes valuable guidance on litigating claims including occupational stress, statutory harassment, and disability discrimination issues. She has also appeared on international TV and radio as a guest speaker on equality issues.

Rehana has extensive experience of cross-examining medical experts and dealing with complex medical evidence. She has taught cross-examination of expert witnesses to practising barristers nationally and internationally, as an Accredited Advocacy Trainer for the Inner Temple since 2012. This includes delivering training on cross-examining expert witnesses at the International Criminal Court.

Significant Cases

Nasser Arjomand-Sissan v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (2019) EAT – LTL 18/4/2019: [2019] 4 WLUK 319

Rehana successfully represented the Respondent in a 3-day EAT Appeal examining the legal test in respect of protected disclosures alleging legal breaches by the employer.

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust v N Uddin (2018) EAT – LTL 7/3/2019: [2019] 12 WLUK 1

Rehana successfully represented the Appellant in this appeal relating to unfair dismissal and the requirements on the Employment Tribunal to ensure that their findings deal systematically and fully with each of the separate limbs of the requisite test.

Yovonie v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (2018) High Court – [2018] EWHC 2328 (QB): LTL 3/8/2018 EXTEMPORE

Rehana represented the successful employer in striking out this High Court claim for discrimination, breach of contract and equal pay. She had successfully represented the employer in the ET and EAT and secured a strike out of the High Court claims on the basis of estoppel, res judicata and abuse of process.

KPK Puthenveettil v (1) S Alexander (2) RJ George (3) Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (2018) EAT – LTL 25/4/2018: [2018] 1 WLUK 549

Rehana represented the First and Second Respondents in this EAT appeal with far-reaching significance as to whether the national minimum wage exemption was contrary to EU law and whether it could or should be disapplied by the Courts.

Privacy Policy

Rehana Azib KC Privacy Policy

My contact details:

ICO Reg No: Z8755588
Address: 2 Temple Gardens, London, EC4Y 9AY
Email: clerks@2tg.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7822 1200

The type of personal information I collect

To enable me to provide you with legal advice and representation in courts, tribunals, arbitrations and mediations, I currently collect and process the following personal information:

Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name, date of birth and contact details), bank and financial details, your background and circumstance and education.

Other personal data relevant to, or included in instructions to provide legal services, including data specific to the instructions in question and data included in documents provided to me as part of instructions or otherwise.

Such information may include personal information relating to family members, associates, agents, employees, shareholders or beneficial owners. By providing such personal information to me, you automatically confirm that you are authorised to do so. It is not reasonably practicable for me to provide the information set out in this Privacy Notice to those individuals. Accordingly, where appropriate, you are responsible for providing this information to any such individuals.

Where necessary, I may also need to process Special Category data about you including

  • racial or ethnic origin;
  • personal data revealing political opinions;
  • personal data revealing religious or philosophical beliefs;
  • personal data revealing trade union membership;
  • genetic data;
  • biometric data (where used for identification purposes);
  • data concerning health;
  • data concerning a person’s sex life; and
  • data concerning a person’s sexual orientation.

How I get the personal information and why I have it

Most of the personal information that I process is provided to me directly by you or via the professional you have instructed such as a solicitor or consultant or other professional adviser who instructs me on your behalf to provide legal services.

I use the information that you have given me in order to

  • provide legal services to you, my client, including the provision of legal advice and
  • representation in courts, tribunals, arbitrations, and mediations
  • keep accounting records and carry out office administration
  • take or defend legal or regulatory proceedings or to exercise a lien
  • respond to potential complaints or make complaints
  • check for potential conflicts of interest in relation to future potential cases
  • promote and market my services
  • carry out anti-money laundering and terrorist financing checks
  • train other barristers and pupils, and when providing work-shadowing opportunities
  • publish legal judgments and decisions of courts and tribunals as required or permitted by law.

I may share this information with

  • other professional advisers such as other legal professionals and consultant experts and other witnesses
  • courts and tribunals
  • the staff in my Chambers
  • prosecution authorities
  • pupils and mini pupils
  • lay clients
  • family and associates of the person whose personal information I am processing
  • in the event of complaints, the Head of Chambers, other individuals nominated by Chambers who deal with complaints, the Bar Standards Board, and the Legal Ombudsman
  • other regulatory authorities
  • current, past or prospective employers
  • education and examining bodies
  • business associates, professional advisers and trade bodies, e.g. the Bar Council
  • professional indemnity insurers or brokers
  • the general public in relation to the publication of legal judgments and decisions of courts and tribunals
  • If you have engaged other professional advisers to instruct me on your behalf on the matters on which I am providing legal services to you, I shall assume that I may disclose your personal information to them unless you tell me otherwise.
  • I may be required to provide your information to regulators, such as the Bar Standards Board, the Financial Conduct Authority or the Information Commissioner’s Office. In the case of the Information Commissioner’s Office, there is a risk that your information may lawfully be disclosed by them for the purpose of any other civil or criminal proceedings, without my consent or yours, which includes privileged information.
  • I may also be required to disclose your information to the police or intelligence services, where, acting in good faith, I consider it required and permitted by law.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful basis I rely on for processing this information is

  • The processing is necessary for a contract I have with you, or because you have asked me to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
  • You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting me.
  • It may be necessary for me to share your personal data to comply with legal obligations to, for example, HMRC.

How I store your personal information

Your information is securely stored in Chambers or at my home. I use reasonable technical and organisational security measures such as password protection and encryption of computer generated data and keeping paper data secure to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or destroyed, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way.

In this connection, Chambers, as data processor, acting on my behalf, will only process your personal data on my instructions and is subject to a duty of confidentiality.

The data will be held in line with any regulatory obligations and generally be kept for 6 years but may be 12 years, or longer where, for example, the case includes information relating to a minor, from the date of completion of instructions. At this point any further retention will be reviewed and the data will be marked for deletion or marked for retention for a further period.

All data will be securely deleted or securely shredded after this time without reference to you. I will store some of your information which I need to carry out conflict checks for the rest of my career. However, this is likely to be limited only to your name and contact details and the name of the case. It will not include any information that is “sensitive information” for GDPR purposes.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask me for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask me to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask me to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask me to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask me to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that I transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
  • You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, I have one month to respond to you. Please contact me at 2 Temple Gardens, London, EC4Y 9AY or clerks@2tg.co.uk if you wish to make a request.

Transfer of your information outside the European Economic Area (EEA)

This privacy notice is of general application and as such it is not possible to state whether it will be necessary to transfer your information out of the EEA. If I do transfer your personal data I will use safeguards to ensure the data is fully protected as required by the UK Data Protection Regulations.

Changes to my Privacy Policy

From time to time, I may need to make chances to my privacy policy. If so, the changes will appear on my entry on the 2TG website.

Marketing

As above, I may share your personal data with Chambers who may in turn use that data to notify you by email, or post about an invitation to seminars and similar events. You may opt out of receiving any such marketing communications at any time by using the “unsubscribe” link in any emails. In relation to how Chambers uses such data, please see Chambers’ privacy policy. Other than sharing personal data with Chambers as described above, I will not share your information with any other third party for marketing purposes.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about my use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to me or to my Senior Clerk, Lee Tyler at 2 Temple Gardens, London, EC4Y 9AY or clerks@2tg.co.uk. You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

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"Incredibly bright and astute."

Legal 500 2024

"Extremely knowledgeable and very experienced."

Chambers UK 2023

"She is exceptional, she has a breadth of knowledge, she has the ability to grasp the facts and she is lovely to deal with."

Chambers UK 2022

"Incredibly bright, astute and able to understand the intricacies of complex legal points as well as the wider needs of the clients."

Legal 500 2022

"She's very client-focused and her skills at tribunal are exceptional." "She's absolutely fantastic."

Chambers UK 2021

"Excellent during cross-examination - iron fist in a velvet glove was written with Rehana in mind - and she has great client skills."

Legal 500 2021

  • Queen’s Counsel (2022)
  • Head of Employment Law, 2 Temple Gardens (2019)
  • Master of the Bench, Inner Temple (2019)
  • Education and Training Committee, Inner Temple (2019)
  • Course Director of Pupils’ Advocacy (2018)
  • Advocacy Training Committee, Inner Temple (2018)
  • Advocacy Teacher Trainer, Inner Temple (2014)
  • Accredited Advocacy Trainer, Inner Temple (2012)
  • Patron of International Law Firm Bird & Bird Bursary Foundation (2009)

  • Major Exhibition, Inner Temple
  • Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholarship, Inner Temple
  • Young Achiever of the Year, National Asian Women of Achievement Awards (2009)

  • BVC, Inns of Court School of Law
  • BA Jurisprudence, Keble College, Oxford University

  • Barrister Governing Bencher, Inner Temple
  • Advanced Advocacy Trainer & Advocacy Teacher Trainer, Inner Temple
  • Course Director for Pupils Advocacy & Director of Practice Management, Inner Temple
  • Advocacy Training Committee Member, Inner Temple
  • Education & Training Committee Member, Inner Temple
  • Personal Injury Bar Association Committee Member
  • Employment Law Association

  • Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claim, Bloomsbury Professional (2012) – Co-author of this comprehensive text and practitioners’ guide to litigating all aspects of psychiatric claims for both personal injury and employment law practitioners. Includes guidance on occupational stress, harassment, and discrimination claims.
  • International Asian Who’s Who Guide – featured profile (2012-present)
  • “Health and Wealth”, New Law Journal (June 2012)
  • “An offer you cant refuse”, New Law Journal (July 2011)
  • “A mixed bag”, New Law Journal (November 2010)
  • Updates on Asbestos Exposure Parts 1 and 2, New Law Journal (2009, 2010)
  • “The Measure of Injury” Parts 1 and 2, New Law Journal (2008)

“Her advocacy is robust and hard-hitting, and she always gets the client’s case across in a persuasive and clear manner.” “Rehana is good on strategy, tactics and negotiations.” “Rehana is a really steely cross-examiner and advocate.” “She is highly impressive in every aspect of counsel service.” “Rehana is very good on the detail, getting into the nuts and bolts of a case. She is good on strategy, tactics and negotiations as well as being very easy to deal with.” “Rehana is a class act. She is calm under pressure with steely negotiating skills. Her grasp of the law and facts is consummate, including novel and complex issues.”
Chambers UK 2024

“Rehana is excellent at absorbing complex and detailed information very quickly, and has an analytical eye for detail.” “Rehana is brilliant at putting clients at ease and provides clear and succinct advice.” “Incredibly bright, astute and able to understand the intricacies of complex legal points as well as the wider needs of the clients.”
Legal 500 2024

“Rehana is thorough in her preparation, inspires immediate confidence in clients and is a tenacious advocate.” “Rehana’s advice, insight and performance in conference with both insurers and insured is outstanding.” “She is extremely knowledgeable and very experienced. Rehana is a pleasure to work with.”
Chambers UK 2023

“Incredibly bright, astute and able to understand the intricacies of complex legal points as well as the wider needs of the clients.” “What is striking about Rehana is her innate ability to get straight to the heart of a matter and not be distracted by the morass of superfluous information or allegations that are frequently present. She always manages to distil a matter into two or three relevant legal points.”
Legal 500 2023

“She is a very commercial and pragmatic barrister, her clarity of thought is very impressive and she has a good grasp of all the issues. She also does a huge amount of appellate work and I really appreciate the way that she analyses those cases.”
“She is exceptional, she has a breadth of knowledge, she has the ability to grasp the facts and she is lovely to deal with.”
“She is extremely intelligent and very analytical.”
“She has the ear of whichever court or tribunal she appears before. She is held in high regard and operates well above her year of call.”
Chambers UK 2022

“Rehana is extremely hard-working, knowledgeable, engaging and easy to work with. She is a problem solver and provides the upmost support to her instructing solicitors and the client. She is also professional, personable and a pleasure to work with, and has impeccable technical knowledge.”
“Incredibly bright, astute and able to understand the intricacies of complex legal points as well as the wider needs of the clients.”
Legal 500 2022

“She’s very client-focused and her skills at tribunal are exceptional.” “She’s absolutely fantastic.”
“She is very clever and responsive, and has dealt with some very tricky cases.” “Her attention to detail is excellent.”
Chambers UK 2021

“Achieves excellent results through remorseless hard work and exceptional attention to detail.”
“Excellent during cross-examination – iron fist in a velvet glove was written with Rehana in mind – and she has great client skills. Assertive and highly skilled in dealing with litigants in person.”
Legal 500 2021

“Her approach to each different case is mind-blowing. Her style is always different for each party she addresses in court, but she does it with such ease; she can move from one to the other while being ever so polite and still getting her point across. The relationships she builds with each of the witnesses is great; she really knows how to calm them down before they have to give their evidence”
Chambers UK 2020

“Particularly good for complex cases involving disability and mental health issues”
Legal 500 2020

“She provides thorough, detailed advice and is able to look at a case from all angles, adopting a commercial approach where appropriate. She is a formidable advocate and will really fight your corner. She’s also very personable and clients like her”
Chambers UK 2019

“She is really good and effective in court before a judge”
“A very skillful advocate who is formidably intelligent and very hard-working”
Chambers UK 2018

“Her advocacy oozes persuasiveness”
Legal 500 2017

“She really does go that extra mile in delivering an excellent service”
Legal 500 2016

“Formidably intelligent and extremely hardworking”
Legal 500 2015

“Formidable work ethic and intelligence”
Legal 500 2014

“Organised, reliable and brings extra quality to drafting”
Legal 500 2010

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