Eleena is a leading Employment & Equalities and Professional Discipline & Regulation barrister with expertise and a strong professional reputation, acknowledged in the directories as having “developed a strong reputation for handling employment disputes that require specialist knowledge of either the education or healthcare sector” (Chambers & Partners).

She is ranked as a leader in both practice areas, which are complementary to each other and the high quality Public Law work which Eleena also undertakes.

Eleena regularly appears in tribunals and in the High Court including at appellate level having been described as:

“An excellent written and oral advocate” (Legal 500)

Eleena spent fifteen years at Littleton Chambers (2001 to 2017) during which time she founded and headed up the Professional Discipline & Regulation Group.

In a market crowded with barristers, clients have said, time and again, that Eleena’s strength is her nuanced understanding of how best to apply intelligent solutions to essentially human problems. This depends on careful legal analysis and a way of dealing with parties, clients and witnesses which is borne of years of experience. Clients who regularly seek her advice or advocacy skills span the full range from City banks to public sector organisations, including the NHS and universities, from Formula One media personalities to charities. Indeed, many of her high-profile cases stay out of court (and the press) altogether because of the careful and strategic advice she has given at an early stage, thereby also saving costs. It is this which means that Eleena is chosen because of what she does and how she does it and not just on the basis of her client base; she has resisted being pigeon-holed as a public or private sector barrister and uses her experience of acting for both as well as being for claimants and defendants to great tactical advantage.

Eleena is known for her ability to assimilate complex material swiftly and provide strategic and commercial advice. Highly approachable and hands-on, Eleena is valued by solicitors for her calm approach to even the most time pressured and stressful litigation, including short notice injunctions, as well as sensitive client handling skills. At these stressful times, clients find her to be “Exceptionally, alert, available and responsive” (Legal 500, 2017).

Eleena has breadth and depth of expertise in cases with a medical dimension, having acted for numerous health practitioners, the NHS and associated agencies. These cases have included CESR applications and appeals, fitness to practise concerns, injunctions, actions in the QBD and judicial review.

Eleena is equally at home with cases which have a commercial angle, including business information protection or team move cases, having obtained and defended many applications for injunctions in this field of law in the last decade and a half.

She has an especial interest in public procurement and the regulation of pay. Recent lectures include 'Procurement Issues for General Practice Providers' and 'City Pay: Deferred Remuneration and CRDIV'.

When time permits, Eleena offers lectures and training in all major areas of employment law including discrimination, breach of contract, whistleblowing and injunctions.

She is a co-author of Blackstones’ Employment Law Practice (OUP 2017) as well as having written for and contributed to several leading texts over the years, including Atkins on Equal Opportunities and Employment.