Rebekah Lee

Rebekah has a strong interest in public law and human rights and is keen to continue building a practice in this area. She has drafted submissions on behalf of a claimant in a judicial review case.

Rebekah also undertook a four-month secondment with a public law firm specialising in claimant-side judicial review and Equality Act matters. During this time, she assisted on a number of high-profile cases, including drafting Pre-Action Protocol letters and Summary Grounds in several judicial review claims concerning Article 10 rights.

Throughout pupillage she assisted several members of Chambers in a range of public law cases. This included drafting a pre-action judicial review letter, challenging the scope of an inquest and producing a written advice in a VAT judicial review claim.

Additionally, Rebekah has written several pieces of advice concerning Article 2 damages, in sensitive cases involving acts of terrorism and death in custody. This drew upon Rebekah’s academic experience during her LLM, where she gained a high distinction in Public Law. Rebekah contributes to the UK Human Rights Blog including an article analysing the human rights considerations of injunctions made against members of the Traveller Community and an article providing commentary on R (TTT) v Michaela Community Schools Trust [2024] EWHC 843 (Admin). 

Rebekah has undertaken secondments in two firms; one exclusively representing Claimants and the other representing the Respondent. This has given her a wide-ranging insight from both perspectives.

Claimant

During secondment, Rebekah assisted in several discrimination and equality law matters on behalf of the Claimant, including several high-profile cases. Rebekah was also instructed to draft an extensive piece of legal research concerning the rights of those working in the Arts; specifically focused on the legal changes afforded by the Employment Rights Act 2025. Following secondment, Rebekah has continued to receive instructions in these areas and recently advised in an Equality Act case concerning allegations of discrimination within a political party. This has built upon her pro bono representation through Advocate and FRU where she has represented Claimants in cases, including Unfair Dismissal, Employee Status and Unlawful Deduction from Wages.

Respondent/ Defendant 

Rebekah undertook a three-month secondment in-house with a law firm within their Employment Team. During this time, Rebekah regularly appeared in the Employment Tribunal on behalf of the Respondent in a wide range of employment matters including discrimination, unfair dismissal and protected disclosure. She has also provided advice and drafted pleadings on complex legal issues, including maternity pay disputes, discrimination by association and advice on appeal.  Rebekah is particularly interested in the overlap of employment law and personal injury and how an insight into complex loss of earnings claims in employment cases informs a clinical negligence practice.

Rebekah is building both a claimant and defendant practice. Recent experience includes:

• Rebekah recently advised a Claimant in conference and provided written advice in a delayed cancer diagnosis case.
• Rebekah was appointed to the NHS Resolutions’ approved Counsel for Covid cases and regularly completes pleadings in such cases.
• Rebekah was instructed as a junior on a high-value birth injury case, assisting a senior member with quantum.
• Rebekah appears in several interlocutory hearings, including a case management and strike out in matters of clinical negligence.
• Rebekah also provided written advice in several complex clinical negligence matters under the supervision of Richard Booth KC.
• Rebekah drafted pleadings under the supervision of Matthew Barnes in a range of clinical negligence matters, including cauda equina and birth injury.

Rebekah also co-authored the chapter “Fatal Claims” in the upcoming edition of Clinical Negligence – A Practitioner’s Handbook edited by Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC and Richard Lodge.

Rebekah recently acted as sole counsel on behalf of a health service in an inquest. Rebekah represented a family at a PIRH which led to several significant admissions prior to the inquest. Throughout pupillage, she drafted written submissions in several high-profile inquests under the supervision of Matthew Hill and Neil Sheldon KC.  Rebekah also assisted a senior member of Chambers in drafting a skeleton argument in a High Court case concerning the anonymisation of the Deceased in an inquest. Rebekah undertook research which contributed to the upcoming 2^nd edition of the Inquests Book (published 2025).

Recently Rebekah worked as junior- junior counsel for the Government Legal Department in a high-profile detention centre case.

During pupillage, Rebekah drafted several pieces of written advice in cases of Unlawful Detention. She also took a note in a ten-day immigration tribunal case. Prior to undertaking pupillage, Rebekah was a qualified Level 1 Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner Advisor and set up an immigration clinic in partnership with a law centre. Here, she supported Claimants in a range of immigration matters and built upon her previous voluntary experience with multiple refugee and asylum charities. Rebekah welcomes instructions in this area.

Rebekah is currently undertaking a part-time placement with HMRC. She is undertaking drafting work in both direct and indirect tax matters. This has exposed her to a wide range of tax matters. In particular Rebekah has had experience in the following:

• Drafted a skeleton argument in a customs and excise case, where HMRC successfully proved the client to have been dishonest.
• Drafted a skeleton argument in case where HMRC argued that an appellant was not entitled to Business Asset Disposal Relief because they failed to satisfy s169s(3)(b) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992.
• Drafted a statement of case in a case disallowing input tax for a purported start up on the basis that the evidence showed no intention to make taxable supplies.
• Drafted a statement of case arguing deliberate but not concealed and careless in relation to VAT input submissions.

Prior to this placement, Rebekah was instructed as junior for HMRC and assisted with the drafting of the position statement in a Labour Supply Fraud case, alongside Laura Inglis. This drew upon Rebekah’s experience during pupillage in which she assisted Sarabjit Singh KC and Isabel McArdle in drafting a skeleton argument on behalf of the Claimant and written advice on behalf of a Respondent in VAT Judicial Review cases. Rebekah is keen to continue developing her practice in this area.

Rebekah was instructed by Leigh Day for the Claimants in a high profile 12-day High Court trial. The Claimants’ case was that the gambling company owed a duty of care to the deceased, who, in the Claimants’ submission, had tragically taken his own life, due to a deterioration in his mental health stemming from his gambling. Rebekah was led by Jeremy Hyam KC of 1 Crown Office Row and Jesse Nicholls of Matrix. The Claimants await judgment.

Rebekah successfully represented the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the High Court in a series of interim order applications. Rebekah is keen to continue building her practice in this area.