Laura Redman

Call: 2021 (Admission, New York: 2004)

Call 020 7827 4000

Expertise

  • Equality and Discrimination

  • Employment

  • Human Rights

  • Public and Administrative Law

“She is a balanced and thoughtful advocate, who is very detail-oriented.” - Legal 500 2025

“We have instructed Laura in several matters over the last 12 months including ET claims against UK and global household names. With her advice and representation these matters have led to positive outcomes for our clients with their claims being put to the respondents and their issues aired and heard accordingly. She has extensive and practical discrimination knowledge and imparts her opinion and advice on this area of law with great expertise and always with the client’s best interests at the forefront of this. Discrimination is subtle and rarely overt - Laura appreciates this and can empathize with our clients’ position and lived experience, advising and opining accordingly.” – Deputy Senior Solicitor – Suffolk Law Centre

“Laura was very easy to work with from instruction to conclusion of the hearing.  She always made herself available for briefings (even at short notice) and was very thorough in her analysis of the claim and issues in preparations, going above and beyond to ensure no stone was left unturned.  Laura was able to deal with last minute procedural issues and approached both those and the hearing with a measured and assured calm.” – Senior Associate – Burness Paull LLP

“Her commitment to the client was very impressive. She made everything easy for the client to understand, and was meticulous in her work. She was always happy to pick up the phone to discuss the case with me.  As a solicitor at a law centre where none of our clients can afford a barrister’s fees, it is wonderful to come across someone like Laura!”  - Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre

Listed in Advocate’s inaugural ‘Pro Bono Recognition List of England Wales’ for 2024 in acknowledgement of giving 25 hours or more pro bono legal assistance over the last year.

Laura has been nominated for the ‘Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year’ category in Advocate’s Bar Pro Bono Awards 2024.

  • Laura is dual qualified in the US and UK with twenty years of experience advocating for equality and human rights.

    Laura acts for claimants and respondents in the Employment Tribunal and civil courts. Laura draws on her years of experience in US practice in federal court and has entered her inaugural rankings as a Level 4 Leading Junior in Employment in the Legal 500.

    She is growing her practice in public law and human rights. She is interested in accepting instructions in many areas of chamber's work, including employment, discrimination, public law, professional disciplinary proceedings and human rights.

    Examples of recent instructions include:

    • Acted for the claimants in Employment Tribunal regarding, but not limited to, race discrimination, victimisation and disability discrimination claims against government departments; victimisation and whistleblowing against national supermarket; sex discrimination and constructive dismissal; maternity discrimination; and whistleblowing against large financial institutions.

    • Acted for claimant resulting in successful settlement of disability discrimination in goods and services claim against local authority in County Court.

    • Issued judicial review for four people seeking asylum who were or at immediate risk of street homelessness, challenging the Home Office’s denials and delays in provision of housing; interim relief secured; successful challenges to suitability of accommodation via County Court appeals.

    • Acted for local and national employers in unfair dismissal, sex, age, race and maternity discrimination claims.

    • Acted for claimant in remedies hearing, securing large settlement for disability discrimination, harassment and victimisation against national employer.

    • Early advice and drafting, achieving beneficial settlements, for claimants in sexual harassment and constructive dismissal, unlawful deduction of wages, disability discrimination, and race discrimination claims, including against global and national employers, as well as discrimination in education, and goods and services.

    Before completing her transfer to the Bar, Laura was the Acting Head of the Justice Together Initiative in London, which supports access to justice in the UK immigration system and promotes strategic legal action and movement building.

    Prior, she was the Director of the Health Justice Program at the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest in New York, NY where she brought an immigrant and racial justice focus to health justice advocacy campaigns working together with unions, community-based and grassroots organisations, community organisers and legal services programs. In this role, Laura was lead counsel on cutting edge strategic constitutional/public law litigation through to the Court of Appeals and supervised individual civil rights claims.

    For over a decade, Laura served on the Freelance Research Panel for Matrix Chambers where she performed legal research and analysis on a variety of topics, including, employment law and discrimination, rights of incarcerated workers, police duty to protect, international law and general equality law.

    Before joining NYLPI, Laura worked at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in New York, NY as a Senior Attorney litigating strategic federal and state class action public law and human rights cases seeking systemic reform in the public benefits system in courts across the United States. She performed the role similar to both a solicitor and barrister in these cases, representing thousands of individuals, including drafting relevant litigation documents; oral advocacy in court; negotiating settlements where applicable; and pursuing alternative strategies. She began at NCLEJ as an Equal Justice Works fellow, which is a nationally competitive selective fellowship program.

    From 2005-2006, Laura was a Senior Legal Officer at the Commission for Racial Equality in the United Kingdom where she enforced the Race Relations Act 1976 and proactive Race Equality Duty through statutory compliance powers and litigation.

    After completing her Juris Doctor, Laura was a judicial law clerk (judicial assistant) for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Staff Attorneys' Office in New York, NY, where she drafted opinions and bench memoranda on a variety of topics, including employment discrimination.

    During her legal education, Laura completed full-time internships at Cloisters Chambers where she focused on employment discrimination and performed the role of a pupil (2003) and Liberty where she performed research and analysis for strategic litigation under the Human Rights Act (2001).

    Prior to law school, Laura worked as a legal assistant at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs in the Equal Employment Opportunity department.

  • Bar Transfer Test, BPP University (2020)

    Juris Doctor, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2003)

    M.Sc., Gender, Society, and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London (2000)

    Bachelors, Justice, American University, Washington, D.C., USA (1997)

    Admitted to practice in:

    Bar of New York State

    United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

    United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

    United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

    Pro Hac Vice in various federal and state courts across the United States

  • Legal 500 2025: (Employment)“She is a balanced and thoughtful advocate, who is very detail-oriented.”

  • Listed in Advocate's 'Pro Bono Recognition List of England and Wales' for 2024.

    Nomination for ‘Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year’ category in Advocate’s Bar Pro Bono Awards 2024.

    Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow (2019) “The Program recognizes exemplary lawyers who have distinguished themselves in public interest work and who can assist students who are considering similar career paths.”

    New York City Bar, Legal Services Award (2017) “In recognition of extraordinary dedication and outstanding work providing civil legal assistance to the poor in New York City and important contributions to equal access to justice.”

    Public Interest Law Hero, Equal Justice Works Fellowship Program (2007).

  • Discrimination Law Association, Executive Committee Member

    Employment Lawyers Association, Member

    Industrial Law Society, Member

    Administrative Law Bar Association, Member

    New York City Human Resources Administration, LGBTQI+ Working Group, Co-Chair

    New York City Bar Association, LGBTQI+ Committee, Member

    New York City Bar Association, Sex and Law Committee, Member

  • Co-author (with Cathy Casserley) Legal Action Group Discrimination Law Update (beginning 2023).

    Redman, Laura, Developments in US on unlawful discrimination on grounds of height and weight and the Equality Act 2010, DLA Briefings, vol 80, 1064 (November 2023).

    Redman, Laura F., Championing the Rights of People with Serious Medical Needs in Immigration Detention, Practising Law Institute Journal, February 2020.

    Redman, Laura F., Detained and in Danger: Immigrants' Health Suffers Behind Bars, Op Ed. New York Daily News 2/22/17.

    Redman, Laura F., Affordable Care Act: The Data Collection is Essential, Op Ed. New York Amsterdam News, 1/17/16.

    Redman, Laura F., Perspectives From Europe: Balancing Same-Sex and Religious Rights [A Review of Two European Court of Human Rights Cases], The New York Law Journal, September 8, 2014.

    Redman, Laura F., Outing the Invisible Poor: Why Economic Justice and Access to Health Care is an LGBT Issue [Including ACA Health Care Reform Update], The New Queer Agenda: The Feminist and Scholar Online (June 2012).

    Redman, Laura F., Outing the Invisible Poor: Why Economic Justice and Access to Health Care is an LGBT Issue, 17 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 451 (Summer 2010).

    Booth KC, Cherie, Bush, Marc & Scott, Ruth, Complex Needs, Divergent Frameworks: Challenges disabled children face in accessing appropriate support services and inclusive educational opportunities (working title), Published by SCOPE, 2010 [Credited Research & Drafting assistance by Laura Redman].

    Trainings and presentations on community and movement lawyering, strategic litigation and building power for social change for Immigration Practitioners Law Association, Justice Together Initiative Movement Lawyering Learning Exchange (2023); BPP Law School (2020-23); Law Centres Network annual conference, Law and Social Justice Workshop at Newcastle University, Public Law Project Access to Justice in the Southwest conference, BPP Law School and for the Justice Together Initiative (2021).

    Listed expert in public law and employment law on Lexis Nexis.

    National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Certified Trainer (2015).

    • Jarvis v Department of Work and Pensions, ET Case No. 3309629/2022 (26 March 2024). Successful reasonable adjustments and arising from disability discrimination claim on behalf of Claimant with Autism.

    • Ware v 1) London Borough of Ealing; (2) The Governing Body of Horsenden Primary School, ET Case No. 3312043/2022 (7 February 2024). Successful direct age discrimination and unfair dismissal claim on behalf of Claimant.

    • Charles and Small v Orange County Detention Centre, et. al., 925 F.3d 73 (U.S. Court of Appeals 2d Cir. 2019) (42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights claim under 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution asserting deliberate indifference to a serious medical need) Established constitutional right to mental health discharge planning in immigration detention in the Second Circuit.

    • Charles v United States, 2019 WL 1409280 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 28, 2019) (Federal Tort Claims Act claim that U.S. could not delegate its duty under the U.S. Constitution) Established United States' responsibility for people in immigration detention with mental health diagnoses.

    • Greigo v New Mexico Workers Compensation Cmsn., Case No. 09-002775, Court of Appeals for the State of New Mexico (2013). Established farmworker exception to workers' compensation law violated New Mexico state constitution.

    • Torres v Blass, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 163780 (E.D.N.Y. 2013) Established 14th Amendment due process rights apply to childcare benefit program in New York; decision on attorneys' fees motion in favour of Claimant. Strategic litigation coordinated with regional union.

    • Thompson v Donald, Case No. 4-C-09-002775, Maryland State Court, Baltimore County (2009). Successful judgment after full trial in Maryland state court regarding timely processing of applications for benefits. Successful appeal of challenge to attorneys' fees and costs award.

    • Julia M., et al. v Scott, et al., 498 F.Supp. 2d 1245, (D. Mo. 2007); 243 F.R.D. 365 (2007) Established 14th Amendment due process rights apply to Children's Health Insurance Program in Missouri, including successful class certification.

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