Laurene Veale
Year of Call: 2019
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Highlights
Laurene commenced pupillage at Cloisters in September 2019.
OVERVIEW
Laurene accepts instructions across all areas of chambers work, namely employment, discrimination, public law and human rights, regulatory and professional discipline, personal injury and clinical negligence.
Laurene has experience in the employment tribunal including being sole counsel in a 6-day trial involving discrimination, unfair dismissal, deduction from wages and complex evidential issues around disclosure and credibility. She also has experience in whistle-blowing claims and disability discrimination.
She has a keen interest in discrimination, equal pay and trade union activism.
Laurene commenced pupillage in October 2019 and started tenancy in October 2020.
As a pupil she worked on internal investigations within organisations and unions, assisted in appeals in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal, and also undertook work for the Grenfell Inquiry.
Prior to pupillage, Laurene worked in humanitarian aid for refugees and overseas international development.
Before joining Cloisters she gained advocacy experience as a volunteer representative in employment claims for the Free Representation Unit and as a volunteer for Hackney Community Law Centre working on cases in housing, social welfare and employment law.
She speaks French, Arabic and Spanish.
Laurene has experience in the employment tribunal including being sole counsel in a 6-day trial involving discrimination, unfair dismissal, deduction from wages and complex evidential issues around disclosure and credibility. She also has experience in whistle-blowing claims and disability discrimination.
She has a keen interest in discrimination, equal pay and trade union activism.
Laurene commenced pupillage in October 2019 and started tenancy in October 2020.
As a pupil she worked on internal investigations within organisations and unions, assisted in appeals in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal, and also undertook work for the Grenfell Inquiry.
Prior to pupillage, Laurene worked in humanitarian aid for refugees and overseas international development.
Before joining Cloisters she gained advocacy experience as a volunteer representative in employment claims for the Free Representation Unit and as a volunteer for Hackney Community Law Centre working on cases in housing, social welfare and employment law.
She speaks French, Arabic and Spanish.
QUALIFICATIONS
MA Politics and Arabic (with Distinction) University of Edinburgh
Graduate Diploma in Law, City, University of London
Bar Professional Training Course with LLM (Outstanding) City, University of London
Graduate Diploma in Law, City, University of London
Bar Professional Training Course with LLM (Outstanding) City, University of London
MEMBERSHIPS
Employment Lawyers Association
Industrial Law Society
Discrimination Law Association
Legal Sectors Workers Union – UVW
Industrial Law Society
Discrimination Law Association
Legal Sectors Workers Union – UVW
AWARDS
Inner Temple – 2018 BPTC Exhibition Award and 2017 GDL Exhibition Award
City Law School – 2017 GDL scholarship
Evan Ashfield Memorial Prize 2018 for best BPTC - FRU result
33 Bedford Row 2018 Prize for best performance in LLM Clinical Legal Practice (City Law School)
University of Edinburgh, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department – 2014 Irene Crawford Prize for best final year undergraduate student and 2014 Carole Hillenbrand Prize for best undergraduate dissertation.
City Law School – 2017 GDL scholarship
Evan Ashfield Memorial Prize 2018 for best BPTC - FRU result
33 Bedford Row 2018 Prize for best performance in LLM Clinical Legal Practice (City Law School)
University of Edinburgh, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department – 2014 Irene Crawford Prize for best final year undergraduate student and 2014 Carole Hillenbrand Prize for best undergraduate dissertation.