REBECCA TUCK KC

Call: 1998 Silk: 2020

Call 020 7827 4000

Expertise

Discrimination and Equality
Employment
Mediation
Investigations
Litigation

Rebecca was called to the bar in 1998 and took silk in 2020. Her practice specialises in employment and discrimination law and she also has particular experience in industrial relations. In addition to acting in litigation, in the Employment Tribunal, before the Certification Officer, in the High Court and appellate courts, she is frequently instructed outside the litigation process, whether as an investigator, advisor, mediator or to determine grievance or disciplinary issues.

Rebecca frequently writes and lectures on employment law, and co-wrote (with Eady J) the Equal Opportunities division of Harvey on Employment Law and Industrial Relations for 12 years. She is active in the legal community, former Chair of Industrial Law Society, currently serving as a Vice President of ILS and as EDI officer for the South Eastern Circuit. She has been listed in Legal 500, Chambers and Partners and other directories as a leading practitioner for many years.

- Berry Hill High School, Stoke-On-Trent.
- City of Stoke- On-Trent Sixth Form College.
- University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall.
- Inns of Court School of Law.
- Gray’s Inn: called to the bar, 1998.
- Pupil 1998-99 then tenant at Old Square Chambers 1999 – 2025.
- Silk 2020
- Fee Paid Employment Judge since 2011
- Qualified Mediator since 2013
- Advocacy Tutor, at Gray’s Inn since 2013
- Advocacy Tutor for Florida Trial Bar, 2022 and 2023
- Legal Assessor for Nursing and Midwifery Council (2017) and UK Council of Psychotherapists (since 2023)
- Discrimination division of Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law, Lexis Nexis, 2008 – 2020
- Employment Tribunal Procedure, 2nd and 3rd Editions, Legal Action Group
- Various practice notes for Practical Law Company, Westlaw
- Annual Labour Law Review, Institute of Employment Rights, 2000 – 2022
- Industrial Law Society; inc Chair from 2018 – 2020
- Employment Law Bar Association
- Employment law association
- Council of Employment Judges
- South Eastern Circuit executive, and since 2023 chair of the EDI committee.
- Frequently instructed by various universities in both internal procedures (e.g. supporting grievance of disciplinary panels, conducting appeals against dismissal under university statutes), to conduct investigations (generally in relation to very senior employees), and in litigation. Many of the internal instructions are confidential, but non confidential work includes:
o   Investigation into Vice Chancellor of Buckingham University
o   Equal Pay Litigation concerning professors, for Royal Holloway.
o   Multiple discrimination claims, for example acting for University of Exeter, Imperial College.
- I have also received multiple instructions in cases involving allegations of antisemitism, and in 2022-23 investigated allegations of antisemitism in the NUS which published my primary report.
- Investigation into antisemitism in the NUS. Published 2023
- Confidential investigation for a school.
- Determining an appeal against dismissal for a firm of solicitors.
- Confidential investigation into allegations of serious sexual misconduct in a private company.
- Chairing a disciplinary panel for a University.