Rebekah Lee

Rebekah joined Chambers as a tenant in October 2024 following the successful completion of her pupillage, during which she was supervised by Alasdair Henderson, Matthew Barnes, Matthew Hill and Jo Moore.

Most recently, 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 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. 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. 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 a public law practice and most recently drafted submissions on behalf of a Claimant in a Judicial Review. As part of her inquests practice, Rebekah has appeared as sole counsel on behalf of both the family and a health body in inquests or pre-inquest review hearings. Rebekah is building a practice in clinical negligence and was recently instructed as a junior on a high-value birth injury case, assisting a senior member with quantum. She has 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 is also keen to build her personal injury practice and appears regularly in the County Court in a range of small claims and fast track cases.

Rebekah was ranked first in her year at university. Prior to starting pupillage, she spent three months in South Africa, working with a leading human rights organisation assisting with constitutional matters and indigenous land rights. Before coming to the Bar, she worked as a paralegal in a human rights charity, having previously managed a team offering housing, immigration and benefits advice to clients in the North Kensington area; many affected by the Grenfell tragedy. Here, Rebekah had provided immigration advice as a qualified Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner Level 1 Immigration Advisor.

She is currently building a diverse practice and is happy to consider instructions across all of Chambers’ core areas.