Anya Palmer

Anya Palmer is a barrister at Old Square Chambers, practising employment law. She represented Maya Forstater in the ground-breaking belief-discrimination case of Forstater v CGD. She also represented Denise Fahmy in her successful harassment case against the Arts Council, and Sonya Appleby in her whistleblowing case against the Tavistock clinic. 

She also does advisory work, such as helping employers review their policies so they don’t discriminate on gender reassignment or on philosophical belief.

Before she became a barrister, she spent eight years at Stonewall, where she was its second employee, among other things working on test cases on the unequal age of consent for gay sex and the ban on lesbians and gay men serving in the armed forces. She was a co-founder of Sex Matters.