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Lameesa is a specialist employment, discrimination, and public law practitioner.

Lameesa acts for Claimants and Respondents/Defendants across the full breadth of employment law and discrimination matters. She is regularly instructed in complex multi-day discrimination and whistleblowing trials, with a particular emphasis on pregnancy/maternity and sex discrimination cases. Lameesa has extensive experience with unfair dismissal, pay and conditions, worker status, TUPE, and redundancy cases, as well as having a strong advisory and mediation practice. Lameesa has a busy court-based practice, appearing in first instance tribunals and county courts, as well as in the Upper Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal as sole counsel.

Alongside her employment and discrimination practice, Lameesa is regularly instructed in matters concerning education, the Court of Protection, regulatory appeals, and public inquiries. 

Before coming to the Bar, Lameesa represented families whose children had experienced disability discrimination at GDCs, IRPs, and in the SENDIST as both an education law paralegal at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, and as Senior Director of the School Exclusion Project. She is passionate about pro bono work, having volunteered with the National Centre for Domestic Violence and the No5 Chambers Immigration/Human Rights Project. She has also gained experience of legal reform as a Legal Intern at JUSTICE. Before embarking upon her legal career, Lameesa gained a First Class BSc in Psychology and worked as a Research Assistant in a world-leading Developmental Neuroscience lab.

Employment and Discrimination law

Lameesa’s primary practice is employment and discrimination law (including discrimination in goods and services). She is particularly sought after for her excellent client care and strategic advice. Recent cases include:

  • Securing aggravated damages in addition to an order for costs on the indemnity basis against a Respondent who was found to have sexually harassed and unfairly dismissed a young employee. Lameesa represented the Claimant from the start of her claim, through to remedy and costs hearings.
  • Securing over £60,000 in compensation for two claimants arising out their removal from their team at work after they raised complaints about discriminatory comments/actions taken against them. All claims were upheld, including direct race discrimination, harassment on the grounds of race, and victimisation.
  • Acting for, advising parties, and providing training for solicitors in relation to the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act.
  • Successfully settling multiple cases via Judicial Mediation (acting for both Claimants and Respondents). Lameesa has been sought after for her diligent preparation and thorough analysis of strengths and weaknesses in position.
  • Successfully representing the Claimant in a 6-day trial relating to constructive unfair dismissal following maternity leave. Claims of pregnancy/maternity discrimination, sex discrimination, constructive unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, whistleblowing, and victimisation were upheld.
  • Lameesa has successfully applied for claims and responses to be struck out at the preliminary stage. In one matter, she had claims of race and age discrimination struck out due to no reasonable prospects of success at a preliminary stage. In another, she successfully argued that witnesses had been intimidated and it was not possible for a fair trial to take place.
  • Advising a senior NHS consultant on prospects of a whistleblowing and race discrimination claim, leading to a favourable settlement.
Education Law

Lameesa accepts instructions across all areas of education law, with a particular specialism in cases involving disability discrimination (at GDC, IRP, and SENDIST stages). She has a strong advisory practice, particularly regarding Part 6 Equality Act 2010 claims and strategic judicial review, as well as having advised on matters of potential educational negligence. Lameesa also represents higher education students in internal disciplinary cases.

Lameesa contributed to the JUSTICE working party report entitled ‘Challenging School Exclusions’ which called for significant reform to the exclusion system.

Court of Protection and Mental Health

Lameesa accepts instructions in Court of Protection proceedings. She has experience of health and welfare matters under s.16 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and regularly acts in section 21A applications challenging deprivations of liberty in care homes and hospitals. Lameesa acts for all parties, having been instructed by P (via their litigation friends including the Official Solicitor), Local Authorities, and family members.

Public and Administrative Law

The intersection between discrimination and aspects of public law is of particular interest to Lameesa. 

Lameesa regularly advises on judicial review matters, with a focus on educational provision. Lameesa’s budding regulatory practice complements this work. Lameesa continues to act on behalf of a young person, instructed by Just For Kids Law, to challenge a decision of the DBS to bar him from regulated activities for allegations made against him several years ago as a youth, in which he was not charged by CPS.

Lameesa was instructed on behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families in Modules 4 and 8 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, led by Adam Wagner KC. She was then instructed on behalf of the Migrants Rights Consortium during Module 10 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, led by Aswini Weereratne KC.