Camilla Palmer is a solicitor specialising in employment law and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2015.
[1] She started her career as the secretary for Henry Hodge at the Child Poverty Action Group.
[1] She subsequently worked at Gingerbread advising single parents and then took a law degree at the London School of Economics where she focused upon social justice, studying the legal aspects of sex discrimination.
[1] In 2009, she joined the firm Leigh Day to lead their employment team and represented the high-profile client Miriam O'Reilly at an employment tribunal in 2011, suing the BBC for unfair dismissal on the grounds that this was ageism.
[1][3] In 2023, she joined an employment mediation team based in Doughty Street Chambers.