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Sophia Berry

Sophia Berry

Call: 2012

Barrister

"Sophia projects authority beyond her years of call. She is easy to work with and we see her as a rising star at this set."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"Sophia is a very strong advocate and is very thorough in her analysis."

Chambers & Partners

"Great with clients and excellent when it comes to written work, she is really personable and highly professional."

Chambers & Partners

"Really committed, very knowledgeable and a safe pair of hands."

Chambers & Partners

"She is a very client-friendly barrister; she is smart and her drafting is excellent."

Chambers & Partners

"She is incredibly strong technically, she is reassuring to the client and she is very responsive."

Chambers & Partners

"She is a pleasure to deal with; thorough, thoughtful and excellent with clients."

Chambers & Partners

"She has a practice well ahead of her year of call."

Chambers & Partners

“She has a strong command of commercial employment matters as well as equality law."

Chambers & Partners

Sophia Berry

"Sophia projects authority beyond her years of call. She is easy to work with and we see her as a rising star at this set."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"Sophia is a very strong advocate and is very thorough in her analysis."

Chambers & Partners

"Great with clients and excellent when it comes to written work, she is really personable and highly professional."

Chambers & Partners

"Really committed, very knowledgeable and a safe pair of hands."

Chambers & Partners

"She is a very client-friendly barrister; she is smart and her drafting is excellent."

Chambers & Partners

"She is incredibly strong technically, she is reassuring to the client and she is very responsive."

Chambers & Partners

"She is a pleasure to deal with; thorough, thoughtful and excellent with clients."

Chambers & Partners

"She has a practice well ahead of her year of call."

Chambers & Partners

“She has a strong command of commercial employment matters as well as equality law."

Chambers & Partners

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Shortlisted by Legal 500 as Employment Junior of the Year 2023 and by International Employment Lawyer as Junior Counsel of the Year 2023, Sophia is an expert employment and partnership litigator. She is both a tenacious trial advocate and a responsive team player who enjoys strategising with her instructing solicitors and clients from the outset of proceedings. Having initially qualified as a Solicitor at Linklaters, Sophia possesses the unique ability to communicate effectively with clients and to appreciate the commercial realities of litigation.

In the employment field, Sophia has particular expertise in whistleblowing and equality law including equal pay disputes and in handling business protection disputes such as restrictive covenant and confidential information disputes and disputes over bonusesfiduciary duties and shareholdings. She is regularly instructed in complex Employment Tribunal matters and has developed significant experience of appellate advocacy through her employment work, including appearing in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Supreme Court as junior to Mohinderpal Sethi K.C. in landmark employment cases. Sophia is currently working on the independent inquiry into antisemitism at Goldsmiths, University of London with Mohinderpal Sethi K.C.. Sophia also advises on partnership disputes and has appeared for LLPs and partnerships and departing partners in a number of arbitrations.

“Sophia is a very strong advocate and is very thorough in her analysis” Chambers & Partners

“Sophia is proactive in managing cases. She’s very hands-on and always on the ball Chambers & Partners

Sophia 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.Chambers & Partners

Sophia has a practice well ahead of her year of call Chambers & Partners

Sophia’s recent work includes:

  • Acting for a former employee in a speedy trial in the High Court, led by Niran de Silva K.C.. The dispute concerns the enforceability of an unusual non-compete
  • Appearing pro bonowith Mohinderpal Sethi K.C. and Bianca Balmelli for a community nurse in an appeal to the EAT against the dismissal of her indirect sex discrimination and unfair dismissal The appeal succeeded and established that employment tribunals are required to have regard to the “childcare disparity” in indirect sex discrimination claims. Sophia continues to represent the Claimant following a remitted hearing to the ET.
  • Acting for a large national charity defending an equal pay claim in the ET, led by Dale Martin K.C..
  • Appearing for a leading mobility platform defending group claims for holiday pay, sick pay and other rights and benefits which depend on the claimants’ alleged worker status. Sophia is led by David Reade K.C..
  • Appearing for a former prison officer at a remedy and costs hearing dealing with complex quantum questions in the ET. The value of the Claimant’s award exceeds £1 million.
  • Acting for a supermarket defending multiple equal pay claimsin the ET.
  • Acting in a partnership arbitration defending claims brought by her clients alleged former partners.

Statutory Employment Law

High Court Employment & Business Protection

Partnership & LLP

Investigations

Commercial Law

Arbitration

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