Amany Jabir

Andrew Sargeant

Team Leader

Email: andrew@littletonchambers.co.uk
Phone: 0207 797 8618

George Shah

Practice Manager

Email: george@littletonchambers.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7936 5011

Practice areas

Amany joined Littleton Chambers as a tenant in October 2024 following the successful completion of her pupillage. She accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ main areas of practice.

With a commercial academic background, Amany’s professional focus is oriented towards general commercial disputes, including civil fraud, business protection and other High Court employment disputes. She also has experience in partnership matters and the full range of statutory employment disputes.

Before becoming a tenant at Littleton Chambers, Amany graduated top of her class from Leicester University and read for the BCL at Somerville College, Oxford, on scholarships. She was then awarded the Prince of Wales Scholarship and the Residential Scholarship from Gray’s Inn to undertake the Bar Course at City Law School, which also awarded her an Academic Excellence Scholarship. She is fluent in French, her native language.

Commercial

Commercial Employment and Business Protection

Statutory Employment

Amany has experience dealing with claims across the range of employment law, including whistleblowing detriment, discrimination (race, sex and disability), and wrongful and unfair dismissal. Highlights include:

Appearing for the employer in the Employment Tribunal for a preliminary hearing to strike out a former employee’s unfair and wrongful dismissal claims by submitting that the claims were presented out of time even though it was reasonably practicable to present them within the time limit.
Drafting a skeleton argument and closing submissions (acting for the employer) in an unfair dismissal claim by submitting that the employer’s conduct and its decision to dismiss the employee fell within the band of reasonable responses that an employer could reasonably make in the circumstances.
Advising a university on the merits of the age discrimination and victimisation claims an unsuccessful applicant threatened to bring.
Drafting a skeleton argument (acting for the employer) for a hearing before the Employment Tribunal to dispute an employee’s claim that she was disabled due to his anxiety and depression when she also had issues with alcohol consumption.
Drafting a skeleton argument (acting for the employer) for a hearing before the Employment Appeal Tribunal against an Employment Tribunal’s order that the victimisation claim had been made out without having made a finding that that the detriment had been ‘because of’ the protected act.
Drafting a skeleton argument (acting for the employer) for a hearing before the Employment Appeal Tribunal against an Employment Tribunal’s order that the indirect discrimination claim was made out. The claimant’s case on disadvantage and the respondent’s case on legitimate aim had been accepted but the Employment Tribunal had failed to carry out the required balancing exercise.
Advising an employer on the potential claims that could be brought by an employee whom an employer considered dismissing before her two-year qualifying period for unfair dismissal. As she had recently raised grievances relating to her treatment, the dismissal raised numerous possible claims, including disability discrimination, sex discrimination and victimisation.
Drafting a skeleton argument for a hearing before the Employment Appeal Tribunal against an Employment Tribunal’s refusal to give relief from sanctions following the dismissal of a claim for non-compliance with an unless order.
Advising on the employment status of workers contracted under innovative working arrangements, including for employment and tax/IR35 implications.
Drafting a skeleton argument (acting for the employer) for a hearing before the Central Arbitration Committee to challenge a union’s proposed bargaining unit.
Advising an employer on a set of overlapping obligations relating to maternity, health and safety, and discrimination (direct and indirect) for airline staff.
Drafting grounds of claim for a senior executive who claimed that his employer’s dismissal amounted to disability discrimination given his Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Drafting a skeleton argument (acting for the employer) for a preliminary hearing before the Employment Tribunal to strike out a former employee’s wrongful dismissal/notice pay claims due to his repeated non-attendance at the hearings (Rule 47 of the Tribunal Rules).
Drafting an opening note (acting for the employer) for a trial before the Employment Tribunal where the former employee alleged whistleblowing detriment, automatic unfair dismissal, harassment and disability discrimination/failure to make reasonable adjustments.
Assisting (acting for the employer) in drafting the opening note, cross-examination and closing note for a trial before the Employment Tribunal where the former employee alleged race discrimination, harassment and whistleblowing detriment.