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Published: 3rd Dec 2024
Call 2012 (South Africa); 2023 (England and Wales)
Telephone 020 7831 0222
Email jeremy.raizon@42br.com
Call 2012 (South Africa); 2023 (England and Wales)
Telephone 020 7831 0222
Email jeremy.raizon@42br.com
Jeremy is an accomplished, dual-qualified, employment and public lawyer.
He joined 42BR in May 2024 and is eager to build a practice across chambers' areas of expertise.
Jeremy specialises in employment law, public law and human rights. He also has substantial experience advising on matters at the intersection of public and private law, for example the role of good faith in the law of contract, principles of procurement and questions of affirmative action and positive discrimination.
For the past ten years he has practised in South Africa and appeared there in the High Court, Labour and Labour Appeal Courts and the Constitutional Court (the country’s highest court), as well as in complex, lengthy commercial and public-sector arbitrations. Clients included the Office of the President, government departments, political parties, regulatory bodies, unions, NGOs and large corporates.
Prior to joining the Bar, Jeremy was a Visiting Researcher and Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School. There, in addition to post-masters’ research, he assisted in formulating the syllabus for a course on Law and Social Movements and tutored in that course. Jeremy has tutored constitutional law, administrative law and human rights at the University of Cape Town and at Harvard Law School.
From 2008 to 2010, Jeremy was a Judicial Assistant at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, working for Chief Justice Ngcobo and Justice Skweyiya for one year each respectively. Jeremy was a member of the joint task team charged with establishing the Office of the Chief Justice (South Africa’s first independent administrative arm for the Judiciary) in consultation with the Ministry of Justice.
Jeremy was, from 2006 to 2007, Aide to the Deputy Minister of Health. He focussed on the drafting of position papers, policy statements and speeches, facilitated the Deputy Minister's interaction with civil society and provided legal advice on various matters.
Key representations have included:
Jeremy is building a busy practice across all areas of employment law.
A UK employment judge has described Jeremy’s written submissions as “elegantly crafted and impassioned” and commented that Jeremy cross-examines “skilfully”.
He has recently run two disability discrimination trials, one of which, Carl Borg Neal v Lloyds Bank, received wide international and national media attention. There, the ET held that Lloyds Bank acted unreasonably in dismissing an employee for using the N-word in full when asking a question at race sensitivity training. The bank also discriminated against Jeremy’s client on account of his dyslexia.
Jeremy is currently acting for a South African NGO in contemplated applications to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the European Court of Human Rights on the legality of race quotas in netball.
Important South African employment cases in which Jeremy has appeared include:
Jeremy is looking to build a public law practice in the UK.
He has acted in cases involving rights issues like equality, the right to free and fair elections, religious practices in public schools, the right freely to assemble and demonstrate, the right to basic education and the right to land reform and the question of the expropriation of property.
He appeared in South Africa’s Constitutional Court on three occasions (led) where the Court delivered judgment (i) explaining the meaning of the word “debt” in the Prescription Act, 1969; (ii) on whether it is permissible to lock-out all employees even if only members of the majority union are on strike; and (iii) the powers of the Minister of Police to dismiss the head of the Independent Investigative Police Directorate.
Important public law cases in which he has appeared include:
Register here for our Employment Law Webinars, taking place from September to December 2024.
Published: 3rd Dec 2024
We are delighted Jeremy has accepted our offer of tenancy on competition of his probationary tenancy.
Published: 21st Oct 2024
Jeremy joins Chambers from 13 May 2024.
Published: 13th May 2024
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