May is a specialist employment law barrister. She is listed as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 and Up-and-Coming in Chambers & Partners. She is described as 'excellent in court' and her submissions as 'exceptional'. Recent clients include Asda, Network Rail, Sky, and numerous NHS Trusts.May regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal for both preliminary and final hearings. She has significant experience with multi-day final hearings, substantive preliminary hearings, and remedy hearings. May has particular expertise in cases involving healthcare and public sector clients, including the NHS, as she completed a secondment at a leading solicitors' firm working almost exclusively with such clients, and has frequently represented such clients in the Tribunals since then. Recent work includes:
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<li> A 10-day disability discrimination case for a national telecommunications company;</li>
<li> A 5-day disability discrimination case for the NHS;</li>
<li> A 1-day preliminary hearing on employment status for a dental surgery;</li>
<li> A 4-day race discrimination and unfair dismissal case for a national retailer;</li>
<li> A 2-day remedy hearing where she successfully argued for re-engagement and back-pay.</li>
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<span style="font-size: 1rem;">May welcomes instructions to draft Grounds of Complaint and Grounds of Response. She regularly advises on liability in employment law matters and prides herself on her quick turnaround time for employment papers. </span>May has written for the ELA's Employment Law Briefing. She is happy to, and regularly does, provide training talks on employment law issues. She also accepts instructions to provide mock tribunals.In February 2025, May was appointed to the Attorney General's panel of regional counsel.
