‍Laurene acts in the full range of employment claims, including on health and safety at work, pay and conditions, redundancies, and collective rights.‍ ‍

She is tribunal and appellate advocate, representing both claimants and respondents in the EAT including around 50 claimants in a complex Working Time appeal.‍ ‍

Laurene has also acted in large group claims. She was one of 3 counsel representing nearly 10,000 claimants in a successful discrimination and victimisation claim, reported by Channel 4.

She has acted in several equal pay claims including at the stages of determining work of ‘equal value’, and the material factor defence.‍ ‍

‍Laurene is an expert in Equality Act claims in the employment context. She also acts in claims for discrimination in services, housing and public law. This includes failure to make adjustments for disabled service users, discriminatory tenancy conditions and unequal access to services. ‍

Many of Laurene’s clients are people living with disabilities, including invisible disabilities and disabilities made worse by working conditions.

Laurene has particular experience in pregnancy and maternity discrimination, including redundancy after maternity leave. She has written about the gaps in the law to address gender inequality at work, especially for new and expectant mothers.

‍Laurene welcomes instructions in actions against the police, especially those involving equality and human rights breaches. She has acted for victims of police violence and for workers, students, protesters, charity trustees and elected officials who were mistreated for expressing a political belief and/or exercising their right to freedom of speech and assembly.

She successfully represented the claimant in a landmark action against the police where the Court found that the police acted unconstitutionally and oppressively in arresting a protester expressing antizionist views.‍ ‍

Laurene’s expertise in calculating damages in complex personal injury claims has proven particularly beneficial in actions against the police, where the scope of the impact of the police’s conduct can sometimes be difficult to quantify and evidence.

Laurene regularly acts and advises in multi-track clinical negligence claims. This has included complex birth cases where liability is disputed, and infant claims with multifaceted future loss and care costs calculations.

She also represents workers in personal injury claims against their employer, including for psychiatric injury and harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. She has particular experience representing victims of sexual abuse at work and has secured particularly high settlement amounts in this area.

Laurene is regularly instructed to investigate grievances or whistleblowing complaints in NGOs, universities, trade unions and multinational companies. She has developed an investigations protocol which includes particular safeguards for highly sensitive matters, ensuring strict confidentiality measures and the preservation, as far as possible, of working relationships between those involved. The aim is always to an ensure that the investigation informs a resolution and minimises the need for further escalation.

She also offers bespoke training including on preventing discrimination and unconscious bias, reasonable adjustments, and the duty to prevent sexual harassment at work.

Laurene has acted in judicial review applications with discrimination and human rights elements and welcomes instructions in this area. She was also on the counsel team of the Infected Blood Inquiry, and undertook work for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the Covid-19 inquiry.

ALBA (administrative and public law Bar association)

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)

Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC)

Discrimination Law Association (DLA)

Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers

Industrial Law Society (ILS)

“Laurene has excellent advocacy skills and fantastic client care skills.” (Employment) - Legal 500 2026

"Laurene is an outstanding advocate" (Employment) - Chambers & Partners 2026

"Laurene is a pleasure to work with. She is meticulous." (Employment) - Chambers & Partners 2026

“Laurene Veale is very responsive and the client is extremely pleased with her level and quality of communication. Her written work, oral advice and advocacy are excellent.” (Employment) - Chambers & Partners 2026

Bar Professional Training Course with LLM (with Distinction) City, University of London

Graduate Diploma in Law, City, University of London

MA Politics and Arabic (with Distinction) University of Edinburgh

Inner Temple 2018 Bar Professional Training Course Exhibition Award

Inner Temple 2017 Graduate Diploma in Law Exhibition Award

Evan Ashfield Memorial Prize 2018 for best BPTC result

33 Bedford Row 2018 Prize for best performance in Clinical Legal Practice (City Law School)

University of Edinburgh – 2014 Irene Crawford Prize for best undergraduate in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

University of Edinburgh – 2014 Carole Hillenbrand Prize for best undergraduate dissertation in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Laurene loves languages. She speaks French, Arabic and Spanish and is learning Dutch and Farsi.

ALBA (administrative and public law Bar association)

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)

Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC)

Discrimination Law Association (DLA)

Industrial Law Society (ILS)