Anna Bicarregui

Date of call: 2004 Lincoln's Inn

Anna has been a member of chambers since 2005. She practises in all areas of public law, with particular emphasis on education, employment and local government law.

Education Law
Anna has particular experience in education law. She appears regularly in SENDIST (now the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal), in both statementing cases and discrimination cases. She has a good record of successfully defending discrimination claims.

She advises on all areas of education law, including issues such as special educational needs, disability discrimination, admissions and exclusions. Anna currently has a number of cases pending before the Upper Tribunal, including a case which should clarify the vexed issue of margin or additional cost in SENDIST cases which turn on the issue of ‘unreasonable public expenditure’.

Anna regularly provides training sessions for local authorities on special educational needs and discrimination.

Employment Law
Anna has wide experience of all areas of Employment Law ranging from standard unfair dismissal cases, to more complex TUPE and discrimination matters and has a high rate of success in the Employment Tribunal. She has acted in a number of lengthy discrimination cases, including claims of associative disability. Anna regularly advises employment solicitors acting for both individuals and large and small employers.

Anna has developed a specialism in education related employment matters. She has acted in a number of cases for schools and local authorities defending discrimination claims and recently acted for a local authority defending its decision not to confirm the induction period of a trainee teacher before the General Teaching Council.

Anna is a member of the Employment Law Appeal Advice Scheme providing specialist advice and representation at the Employment Appeal Tribunal. She currently has a number of cases pending before the Employment Appeal Tribunal, including a potentially far-reaching case for local authorities on the issue of whether foster carers are ‘workers’ and hence may be subject to the Working Time Regulations 1998 and national minimum wage legislation.

Local Government Law
Over a number of years, Anna has provided advice to local authorities on a wide range of public law issues including community care, mental health, data protection and environmental protection. She has been involved in a number of judicial review cases representing local authorities.

Data Protection/Freedom of Information Law
Anna has a particular interest in data protection and freedom of information. During a one year sabbatical in a law firm in Brussels, Anna advised on this area of law from a European perspective. Anna will be contributing to the new edition of Philip Coppel’s Information Rights textbook.

EDUCATION
BVC, Inns of Court School of Law, Outstanding
CPE, City University, Distinction
Magdalen College, Oxford, History & French, First class

LANGUAGES
French (fluent)

PUBLICATIONS
Regular contributor to the "Administrative Court Digest"
Regular contributor to the “Encyclopedia of Local Government Law Bulletin”

LECTURES
‘School Admissions’, Education Law Conference, July 2006
‘Academy admissions’, September 2006
‘Religious freedoms and human rights in education law after Begum, Updates on developments in other areas including admissions, SEN and latest legislation, case law and guidance’, September 2006

PRIZES and AWARDS
2002 Lord Bowen Scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn (CPE)
2003 Lord Mansfield Scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn (BVC)
2004 Pupillage scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn
2004 Award from the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators for the highest combined score in Civil Litigation and EC law
2004 Award from ICSL for high score in the BVC
2004 Regional Finalist in the European Law Mooting Competition
2004 National & regional negotiation competition winner. Placed 4th in the International Negotiation Competition

AFFILIATIONS
Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA)
Justice
FRU
Bar Pro Bono Unit

CLERKS EMAIL
Daniel Perry and Anthony King

Practice areas

t 020 7404 5252
clerks@4-5.co.uk

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