Hana joined Chambers in October 2024 following the successful completion of her pupillage. She accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ core practice areas.

Employment and discrimination

Hana acts for both claimants and respondents/defendants in employment and discrimination law matters. Recent instructions include:

• Successfully acting for a respondent in a four-day discrimination trial;

• Successfully obtaining interim relief on behalf of a claimant, a migrant healthcare worker, in connection with his claim for automatic unfair dismissal. Media coverage of the case can be found at the following links: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/01/migrant-nurse-wins-legal-victory-over-uk-firm-that-could-cost-it-13000, https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/indian-nurse-wins-rare-legal-victory-against-uk-care-firm-2024-09-09/;

• Providing written advice to a respondent university in a claim for unfair dismissal and race discrimination;

• Drafting particulars of claim in a claim for race discrimination, sex discrimination and breach of contract;

• Assisting Schona Jolly KC in advising on a sensitive and high-profile matter concerning perceived belief discrimination and race discrimination;

• Advising a claimant, a refuse worker with chronic health issues in his claims for unfair dismissal, automatic unfair dismissal and whistleblowing detriment.

Hana has a particular interest in the intersection between employment law and human rights, having obtained a master’s degree in human rights law with distinction from LSE.

Personal injury and clinical negligence

Hana accepts instructions from claimants in personal injury and clinical negligence matters.

During her pupillage, Hana received training in drafting schedules of loss for high-value catastrophic injury claims.

Prior to Cloisters

Prior to joining Cloisters, Hana worked in the Court of Appeal as a judicial assistant to Lord Burnett of Maldon, then Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. She worked on a wide range of appeals, including USA v Julian Assange and Mercer v Alternative Future Group.

Hana is a fluent Welsh speaker. She welcomes instructions from all parts of the UK, including Wales.

Qualifications

Bar Vocational Studies (Distinction) – City, University of London

LLM Human Rights Law (Distinction) – LSE

BA Law (First Class) – University of Cambridge

Junior Scarman Scholarship for second-highest mark on the Bar course – City, University of London

Birkenhead and Residential Scholarships – Gray’s Inn

Otto Kahn Freund Prize for performance on the LLM – LSE

King’s Scholar – King’s College, University of Cambridge

ELA, Member

ILS, Member

Gray’s Inn, Member