Rebecca Paterson

Rebecca is a civil barrister specialising in employment and regulation.

Prior to joining chambers, Rebecca completed pupillage and practised in-house at a large healthcare regulatory body. Rebecca appears for both regulators and professionals in fitness to practise proceedings. She acts in hearings involving misconduct, conviction, health, and lack of competence, and appears in the High Court in applications to extend interim orders. Rebecca drafts charges for final hearings and provides advice on merits of appeal.

Having undertaken a specialist third six pupillage in chambers’ Employment Team, Rebecca has developed a steady employment practice. She has experience drafting complex pleadings and representing clients in cases including issues of discrimination, dismissal, protective awards, and worker status.

Rebecca regularly appears in the County Court and accepts instructions in general commercial disputes, breach of contract, credit hire, debt recovery, personal and corporate insolvency, personal injury/RTAs, and property.

In addition to her busy practice, Rebecca regularly provides pro bono assistance to otherwise unrepresented individuals. During her third six pupillage, Rebecca completed Advocate’s ‘Pro Bono Pledge’ and took on numerous healthcare regulatory and employment cases. These included assisting a professional to demonstrate that they were not impaired after being found to have committed racially motivated misconduct and establishing that an individual was an employee and worker despite having signed an agreement to the opposite effect.