Laura Redman
Laura is dual qualified in the US and UK with twenty years of experience advocating for equality and human rights. Laura has extensive experience in strategic litigation and working with community-based organisations from a community and movement lawyering model.
Laura has acted for Claimants and Respondents in Employment Tribunals and County Court since transferring to the Bar of England and Wales in 2022. She has also brought public law challenges to the Home Office’s failure to provide housing to people seeking asylum and destitute. She continues to develop her skills from a comparative perspective having spent 20 years bringing constitutional and public law challenges against City, County, State and the US government in federal courts across the US.
Before joining Cloisters, Laura was the Acting Head of the Justice Together Initiative in London, which supports access to justice in the UK immigration system and promotes strategic legal action and movement building.
Prior, she was the Director of the Health Justice Program at the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest in New York, NY where she brought an immigrant and racial justice focus to health justice advocacy campaigns working together with unions, community-based and grassroots organisations, community organisers and legal services programs. For over a decade, Laura served on the Freelance Research Panel for Matrix Chambers where she performed legal research and analysis on a variety of topics, including, employment law and discrimination, rights of incarcerated workers, police duty to protect, international law and general equality law.
Before joining NYLPI, Laura worked at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in New York, NY as a Senior Attorney litigating strategic federal and state class action public law and human rights cases seeking systemic reform in the public benefits system in courts across the United States.