She brings this prior experience to bear in many of her cases which feature mental health issues.Ĭhambers & Partners 2022: "She is a brilliant tactical technician, who is really good at finding the answers." "She is able to pick up really complex issues very quickly and turn them into easily digestible facts, and she is very client and solicitor-friendly." "She has a very high level of empathy, she is very committed to her clients, especially vulnerable clients, and she will speak to them at their level." Prior to coming to the Bar, Rachel worked on various projects to improve standards in mental health care, most recently managing a network for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). She also has a cover credit as a researcher for Baroness Hale's Mental Health Law, 6th Edn.Īs a former judicial assistant (to Lord Wilson and Lord Hodge in the Supreme Court and Privy Council 2014-2015), Rachel brings invaluable experience of the judicial decision-making process at the appellate level. Rachel is the co-author of OUP's Employment Law and Human Rights, 3rd Edn, and a contributing author to Supperstone, Goudie & Walker: Judicial Review, Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings and Sweet and Maxwell's loose-leaf Human Rights Practice. She provides perceptive, practical advice to her clients and is a highly effective courtroom advocate. Rachel is frequently instructed in lengthy trials and inquests raising complex and sensitive issues, and is adept in working with vulnerable clients to assist them to achieve their objectives. She also undertakes investigation work into sexual harassment matters for the Labour Party. She is part of the counsel team to the Infected Blood Inquiry. Rachel appears regularly in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and High Court, both led and as sole counsel, and has a busy practice up and down the country in the employment tribunals, county courts and Coroner's courts. NUPFC v Certification Officer ICR 607 - whether foster carers have worker status and can register a trade union.
Kilraine v Wandsworth LBC EWCA Civ 14 - an influential decision setting out what disclosures are 'protected' for whistle-blowing purposes.McCann v State Hospitals Board for Scotland UKSC 31 - human rights challenge concerning whether a ban on smoking in a forensic psychiatric hospital was lawful.She is in demand in legally complex and novel cases, such as: Rachel Barrett has a thriving and varied employment, discrimination and human rights practice, including inquests and public inquiry work.
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