Sapandeep Singh Maini-Thompson practices in employment, discrimination, public law and professional discipline.
Sapan represents Claimants and Respondents in both statutory and commercial employment matters. He also conducts employment-related investigations. In public law, Sapan practices primarily in education, equality law and data protection. Sapan was appointed in his first year of eligibility to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel.
Sapan maintains a keen academic interest in legal affairs and has written extensively for the UK Human Rights Blog, the New Law Journal and various other outlets.
Prior to joining the Bar, Sapan worked as a legal representative for the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU) and as a researcher for the Uyghur Tribunal.
After graduating from Oxford University, he came top of his year in his Master’s degree at the London School of Economics before obtaining first-class marks in all papers during his LLM at University College London, specialising in labour law, comparative public law and the conflict of laws in commercial disputes.
Sapan is a Governing Trustee of the charity Royal Star & Garter.
Sapan represents both Claimants and Respondents in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) and the High Court. He has worked with clients across multiple sectors including health & social care, higher education, financial services, retail, local and central government.
His tribunal experience includes:
His commercial employment experience includes:
Sapan advises on liability and quantum and conducts judicial mediations. His advisory practice encompasses ancillary civil matters such as breach of contract and data protection claims. He is a member of the Government Legal Department’s ‘Junior Junior’ Panel and is regularly instructed to draft responses and to assist in employment proceedings.
In addition to court work, Sapan provides training and seminars to law firms on a range of employment and equality law matters. Sapan has presented on gender recognition and discrimination law at Mills & Reeve, Shoosmiths, Shakespeare Martineau, Bates Wells, Knights Plc, Freeths, Harbottle & Lewis and various other firms. His presentations have been described by solicitors variously as “excellent”, “thought-provoking” and “very insightful”.
His work on gender reassignment and the Equality Act was published by the New Law Journal in January 2024.
Sapan has been instructed by Claimants and Defendants to advise upon claims in the County Court concerning discrimination in the provision of goods and services.
His recent experience includes:
Sapan undertakes investigations and inquiries for both private and public sector clients. Recent instructions include:
Sapan’s public law practice spans education, equality law, data protection and inquests. He has experience representing appellants and public bodies in the First-tier Tribunal, the County Court and the High Court. He is frequently instructed by the GLD (via the Attorney General’s London C Panel) in matters spanning a wide range of government litigation. He has security clearance.
Sapan represents both Claimants and Defendants in claims concerning breach of the GDRP, the Date Protection Act 2018 and freedom of information.
He has been instructed by Claimants, Local Authorities and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in various proceedings before the County Court and the First-tier Tribunal. He has also drafted defences on behalf of the GLD.
Sapan has lectured on the law regulating facial recognition technology at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Sapan appears in the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) in appeals against Educational, Health and Care Plans and in claims of disability discrimination, both for parents and local authorities. He is experienced in dealing with high-cost placements, waking-day curricula and bespoke forms of special educational provision, including post-16 provision. He has advised in claims for judicial review against the failure of local authorities to provide suitable education and in appeals to the Upper Tribunal. Sapan is also instructed in school exclusion and admission appeals.
His recent experience in the SEND Tribunal includes:
Sapan has been instructed as sole counsel in several jury inquests and is familiar with both Article 2 and non-Article 2 proceedings. His experience includes:
Sapan has a wide-ranging practice in professional discipline representing defendants before various regulators.
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Sapan has also been a case presenter for the Nursing & Midwifery Council and has represented the regulator in multiple fitness to practice proceedings across a variety of misconduct matters. These include harassment and bullying, the mis-administration of medication, errors in record- keeping and dishonesty.
During pupillage, Sapan also assisted with proceedings before the General Optical Council, the Financial Reporting Council and the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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No5 Barristers’ Chambers are pleased to announce the following appointments to the Government Legal Department Panel for two members of the Employment group: Jack Feeny:…
No5 Barrister’s Chambers are proud to see Rebekah Wilson, Jessica Allen, Sapandeep Singh Maini-Thompson, Stephen Goodfellow and Baldip Singh Aulak named in the recently published Bar Pro…
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No5 Barristers’ Chambers are pleased to announce the following appointments to the Government Legal Department Panel for two members of the Employment group: Jack Feeny:…
No5 Barrister’s Chambers are proud to see Rebekah Wilson, Jessica Allen, Sapandeep Singh Maini-Thompson, Stephen Goodfellow and Baldip Singh Aulak named in the recently published Bar Pro…
