Jeremy Raizon

Jeremy is a dual-qualified barrister with a growing practice in employment and social housing law. He is regularly instructed by local authorities, employers, and individuals in both tribunal and court proceedings.

Before joining 42BR in 2024, he spent over a decade practising in South Africa, appearing in the Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court, High Court, and Constitutional Court. His clients included government departments, unions, regulators, political parties, NGOs, and listed companies.

Jeremy has particular expertise in collective labour law, workplace disputes, and matters raising public law or human rights issues. He brings extensive experience acting for and against state institutions, often in politically or organisationally sensitive disputes involving dismissal, discrimination, equality, or employment conditions in the public sector.

He has held research and teaching posts at Harvard Law School and the University of Cape Town, and served as a Judicial Assistant at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He also worked in a senior role in government, advising on legal and policy matters in the health sector. Jeremy is praised by UK solicitors and clients not only for his legal acumen, but also for his calm, unflappable approach and his sensitive handling of client relationships.

Employment

Jeremy has a growing UK practice across the full range of employment law. He acts for local authorities, employers, and individuals in tribunal litigation involving discrimination, dismissal, and worker status. He also maintains a busy non-contentious practice advising on contracts, workplace policies, and Equality Act compliance. He takes on pre-trial work such as the preparation of claims, defences, and written submissions.

A UK Employment Judge in 2024 described his written submissions as “elegantly crafted and impassioned” and his cross-examination as “skilful”.

He acted for the claimant in Carl Borg-Neal v Lloyds Bank plc (July 2023), a high-profile disability and race discrimination case that attracted widespread media coverage. The Tribunal found that Mr Borg-Neal, who has dyslexia, had been unfairly and unlawfully dismissed after using the N-word in full while posing a question during race awareness training.

Jeremy appeared for the claimant in Xu v Binary.ai Ltd (Case No: 2216118/2024), a case heard in early 2025 which alleged that “national security” had been used as a proxy for race when a job application was withdrawn. The case also received national press attention.

In the first quarter of 2025, he prepared written submissions in an appeal concerning section 60 of the Equality Act 2010, marking the first time that provision had been considered by the EAT.

He is currently instructed in a belief discrimination claim involving opposition to “critical social justice” ideology. The case concerns the lawfulness of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policies adopted by a well-known charity.

Jeremy has also advised (as junior counsel) a South African NGO on contemplated international employment litigation concerning race-based selection policies in netball, including potential applications to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the European Court of Human Rights.

He regularly appears at preliminary hearings, dealing with strike-out and amendment applications, time limit issues, and complex case management.

Jeremy delivers training and mock tribunal workshops to solicitors and their clients through 42BR’s employment team, and recently co-presented a webinar on the Employment Rights Bill with Gill Crew.

Jeremy has a busy housing law practice, primarily acting for local authorities in possession, disrepair, and anti-social behaviour matters. He regularly appears in court in possession and injunction proceedings, including committals, and in disrepair cases involving prosecutions under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

He has a particular interest in anti-social behaviour and the application of Convention rights in housing proceedings. He also drafts pleadings and provides written advice across a range of housing-related issues.

Jeremy recently acted successfully in a novel anti-social behaviour injunction brought under the common law rather than the statutory regime. He has written about the case and its implications in the Social Housing Law Association newsletter.

Public law, judicial review and human rights

Jeremy is looking to build a UK public law practice, with a focus on judicial review involving local government, human rights, education, housing, and public sector governance. He welcomes instructions at all stages, from advice on merits and drafting pre-action correspondence to representation at permission and substantive hearings.

He has extensive public law experience from his practice in South Africa, where he appeared regularly in judicial review proceedings before the High Court and Constitutional Court. His work has spanned a wide range of constitutional and administrative law issues, including equality, freedom of expression and assembly, access to education, land reform, and the exercise of statutory powers by ministers and regulators.

Jeremy appeared as junior counsel in three cases before the Constitutional Court of South Africa in which the Court delivered judgment on:

· The meaning of “debt” under the Prescription Act, 1969: Off-Beat Holiday Club and Another v Sanbonani Holiday Spa Shareblock Limited and Others 2017 (5) SA 9 (CC);
· The lawfulness of locking out all employees where only the majority union is on strike: Transport and Allied Workers Union of South Africa v PUTCO Limited 2016 (4) SA 39 (CC);
The powers of the Minister of Police to dismiss the Executive Director of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate: McBride v Minister of Police and Another 2016 (2) SACR 585 (CC).

Other notable public law cases include:

Chang v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others; Forum de Monitoria do Orcamento v Chang and Others 2020 (2) SACR 70 (GJ) – on South Africa’s constitutional and administrative obligations in relation to extradition.
Mpungose Traditional Council and Others v MEC for Education, KZN Province and Others [2019] 3 All SA 817 (KZP) – on access to basic education and the enforcement of a legitimate expectation to the provision of a school.
Organisasie vir Godsdienste-Onderrig en Demokrasie v Laerskool Randhart and Others 2017 (6) SA 129 (GJ) – on the constitutionality of religious observances in public schools.
Porritt v Head of JHB Medium Correctional Facility and Others; In Re: S v Porritt and Another [2020] ZAGPJHC 266 – on the rights of pre-trial detainees to legal representation
Gray Moodliar Inc v Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality and Another [2019] 10 BLLR 1163 (ECG) – on the interplay between contract, administrative, and municipal law.

Jeremy draws on this experience to offer strategic and practical advice in complex UK matters involving the legality of public decisions, institutional accountability, and the interface between individual rights and public powers.