Sally Robertson

Year of Call

1995

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Areas of Practice

Employment and Discrimination
Equality / Discrimination / Human Rights
Public and Regulatory Law

Profile

Sally Robertson specialises in the full range of discrimination and employment law, as well as public law including human rights, judicial review and social security. She has advised and represented both claimants and respondents from most employment sectors, with particular experience of voluntary sector, teaching, care home, hospital, police, supermarket and local authority settings. She brings to her practice experience of working within and managing organisations in the 'not-for-profit' sector. Her local authority practice ranges from discrimination to TUPE and large-scale deductions from wages cases.

Sally also has an active practice in social security law, including industrial injuries benefits and housing benefit, where her experience as a specialist goes back to her work as a researcher, trainer and paralegal from the mid-1970s when she worked for the Welsh Consumer Council, Newham Rights Centre (an East London law centre) and Disability Alliance (the national campaigning organization). She has co-authored 'Recent developments in Social Security Law' for the Legal Action bulletin since 1994.

Crossover cases involving mental health / human rights / disability discrimination / social security issues, are also a feature of her work, including cases under Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act. She particularly welcomes disability discrimination cases raising mental health issues as these draw on her specialist background.

Publications

Disability Rights Handbook from 6th to 18th editions
Co-author Recent Developments in Social Security Law, a six-monthly series for Legal Action

Recent Cases

Saini v All Saints Haque Centre [2009] IRLR 74 (EAT: associative religious discrimination)
Asda Stores Ltd v Green EAT/437/08, 18.3.09 (EAT: unfair dismissal, reasonableness and substitution)
Alexander v London Borough of Hackney EAT/650/04, 26.10.05 (EAT: procedure, bias, cross-examination on appeal)
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Wilson [2006] 1 WLR 2682 (CA: national insurance number requirement, whether applies to partner without recourse to public funds)
Ramsden v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions R(DLA) 2/03 (CA: disability living allowance, care component, scope of attention requirement, needs arising from faecal incontinence)
R (Anayet Begum) v Social Security Commissioners [2002] EWHC 401 (test for judicial review of refusal of leave to appeal where the grounds relied on were not before the Commissioner)