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Madeline Stanley

Call: 2013

“Madeline is phenomenally bright, gets to grips with complex matters quickly and provides pragmatic and clear advice.”

Chambers & Partners 2025

“Madeline is a great advocate – she is detail-oriented and technically excellent. An incredibly sharp junior.”

The Legal 500 2025

"Madeline is helpful and approachable and is willing to go the extra mile to get tricky cases back into shape at short notice. She has an attention to detail and is good with legally complex and messy matters."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"An extremely bright junior, and an authority on worker status cases."

The Legal 500 2024

Overview

Madeline is ranked as an employment practitioner in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500. Her practice in this area includes:

  • disputes in the Employment Tribunals and on appeal
  • collective work
  • litigation in the High Court arising from the employment relationship (or similar)
  • public law challenges in the employment and discrimination context.

Madeline also practises in the areas of regulation and professional discipline, and general public law. She is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission panel of counsel.

Madeline is a vice-chair of the Industrial Law Society, and a member of ELA and ELBA.

Madeline’s recent reported cases include:

  • Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive t/a Nexus v National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and Unite the Union [2025] ICR 153 led by Oliver Segal KC. Supreme Court judgment on rectification of collective agreements.
  • Donkor-Baah v University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust [2024] ICR 758. Regulation 5 of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.
  • Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Alhayali [2024] IRLR 381. State immunity in the employment context.
  • Warrington Borough Council v Unite the Union [2024] ICR 599 led by Rebecca Tuck KC. The court dismissed Warrington’s application for an injunction to restrain strike action. Judgment on determining the nature of a trade dispute.
  • R (ASLEF and others, UNISON and the NASUWT) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade [2023] ICR 1405 acting for the NASUWT led by Betsan Criddle KC. Judicial Review. The court quashed regulations made in 2022 which removed the prohibition on the supply of agency workers to cover industrial action.

Professional Recommendations

“Madeline is a great advocate – she is detail-oriented and technically excellent. An incredibly sharp junior.”

The Legal 500 2025

“Madeline is phenomenally bright, gets to grips with complex matters quickly and provides pragmatic and clear advice.”

Chambers & Partners 2025

“Madeline has excellent attention to detail and can pick up complex cases quickly.”

Chambers & Partners 2025

“Madeline is a strong advocate and is brilliantly thorough with any brief.”

Chambers & Partners 2025

“Madeline is helpful and approachable and is willing to go the extra mile to get tricky cases back into shape at short notice. She has an attention to detail and is good with legally complex and messy matters.”

Chambers & Partners 2024

“Madeline is a pleasure to work with. She is helpful, approachable and able to manage the client well.”

Chambers & Partners 2024

“Madeline is excellent. She is super smart, robust and wins the client’s confidence.”

Chambers & Partners 2024

“An extremely bright junior, and an authority on worker status cases.”

The Legal 500 2024

“She has excellent attention to detail and creates great confidence in the client.”

Chambers & Partners 2023

“Madeline is an incredibly bright barrister with a great deal of commercial awareness.”

Chambers & Partners 2023

“Not only is she extremely clever, but she has the emotional intelligence to work well with and gain the respect of the client, the other side and the judge. She also has the ability to grasp changing complex and untested areas of employment law; and is extremely good with clients, explaining matters in a way that can be easily understood, while also being very commercial in terms of advice and potential outcomes.”

The Legal 500 2023

“She has extensive knowledge of trade union law, a very tactical and analytical approach, and is a delight to work with. She is generous with her time and expertise, understands instinctively which points would be attractive to the judicial audience (and which would not), and backs up her views with very prompt, yet thorough, research as new points arise.”

The Legal 500 2022

“She is fiercely clever.”

Chambers & Partners 2022

“She’s brilliant on employment cases.” “She has great attention to detail and quickly develops a good grasp of the case.”

Chambers & Partners 2021

“Her advocacy, both written and oral, was clear and concise, and she made numerous good points in a very persuasive manner.”

The Legal 500 2021

Expertise

Employment & Discrimination

Industrial relations

High Court Employment

Public law

Professional Regulatory & Discipline


Recent and current work

Key contacts

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Team Leader
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Manisha Agheda

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