Linda Wong
Partner
Linda specialises in all aspects of discrimination and employment law.
Linda is a partner in the employment department. She specialises in all areas of UK employment law and is particularly experienced in conducting complex, high-profile discrimination claims. She has extensive experience at all levels of litigation, including representation in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
She has successfully represented employees from a broad range of sectors, including healthcare and the civil service, NGOs and the banking and legal sectors. She is a leading discrimination lawyer, with equally wide-ranging experience in whistleblowing and sexual harassment cases, unfair dismissal, employment status, multifaceted wages disputes and equal pay. She acts for individuals and also specialises in large scale group litigation.
Linda is passionate about social justice and is known for spearheading public interest cases and actions that promote legal reform to advance civil rights. She currently represents tens of thousands of employees against some of the largest multinational companies, working on what the media reports as the “largest private sector equal pay case in UK history”.
Her landmark challenges in the arena of equal pay have had national impact in developing workers’ rights.
She is committed to access to justice and has provided over seven years' pro bono advice and representation with the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Linda has also brought successful judicial reviews that have subsequently developed local authority policy in the provision of assistance to homeless people. She has worked in Malaysia, Bosnia and the UK in relation to women’s human rights issues.
'Linda Wong is exceptional in her knowledge and experience of equal pay work'
Legal 500 2024
What people say
"Linda dealt with my case with complete expertise. It is so rare to have someone so thorough and tenacious fighting for you, whilst equally being so compassionate."
Linda in the news
'It takes balls of steel': fighting UK supermarkets for equal pay Guardian 27.1.18
Equal pay day: What is the gender pay gap like where you are? BBC News 10.11.17
Asda swimming against tide in dispute over 'women's work Independent 10.10.17
Asda equal pay case: The landmark legal battle that could stop women in the UK being paid less than men Independent 10.10.17
Sainsbury's faces equal pay battle with female shop floor workers Guardian 9.7.17
Linda Wong is a marvellous and committed lawyer who is absolutely unrelenting on behalf of her clients.
Legal 500 2021
‘Dedicated and inspirational’
Legal 500 2018
Accreditations
Asda workers advance to the final stage of their equal pay battle
Asda workers fighting for equal pay have advanced to the final stage in their legal battle, as the Employment Tribunal ruled some of their jobs are of equal value to the jobs of their colleagues in Asda’s distribution centres.
Supreme Court to hear Leigh Day's equal pay case against Asda
The Supreme Court has ruled that it will consider an appeal relating to the comparability stage of the UK's biggest equal pay case brought by shop floor workers against Asda.
Sainsbury's fails to get Equal Pay claims struck out by employment tribunal
An employment tribunal has rejected Sainsbury's argument that equal pay claims for store staff should be struck out. Following the judgment of the Birmingham Employment Tribunal the claims worth thousands of pounds for each client, and millions in total, will continue to a hearing.