Bayo is a leading junior barrister with a distinguished multi-disciplinary practice spanning Employment, Tax, Commercial Litigation, Investigations, and Public Law. He is ranked annually in Chambers UK Bar and Legal 500 and was appointed to the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel in 2024.
He is frequently instructed in complex, high-value matters—particularly in the banking, financial services, media, technology, and public health sectors—where employment and tax issues intersect with commercial, reputational, or regulatory concerns.
Praised for being “technically astute, commercially focused and pragmatic” with a “very natural and persuasive advocacy style,” Bayo is known for his strategic clarity and his ability to build trust with clients, witnesses, and tribunals alike. He appears regularly before the Employment Appeal Tribunal, Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery), High Court, and Court of Appeal.
His clients include central government, major corporates, and individuals navigating complex litigation, tax risk, or internal accountability processes.
"He's very bright, very diligent, very hardworking and well prepared for cases." - Employment, Chambers UK 2025
"Bayo is a great all-rounder who is brilliant with clients and witnesses." - Employment, Chambers UK 2025
"He is technically astute, commercially focused and pragmatic. He is diligent with his preparation, and has a very natural and persuasive advocacy style. Clients love him." - Employment, Legal 500 2025
"Bayo is strategic and conscientious. He is very effective at putting witnesses at ease." - Employment, Legal 500 2024
"Bayo is particularly good with witnesses in the run-up to trial. During a hearing, he can think on his feet, is calm in the face of unexpected developments, and has a great, likeable advocacy manner - extremely helpful to instructing solicitors." - Employment, Legal 500 2023
An in-demand junior barrister with expertise across the employment law field, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of contract breaches, discrimination, harassment and whistle-blowing claims. He is also trusted by the government, serving on the Attorney General's C Panel. "He is charming and he is a safe pair of hands." "He is friendly, approachable, and he is good with witnesses." - Employment, Chambers UK Bar 2022.
“Really puts the effort in to achieve the result for solicitors and lay clients” - Employment, Legal 500 2022.
‘A team player, with huge attention to detail and good strategic skills.’ - Employment, Legal 500 2021.
“Bayo is very precise and considered in his approach, particularly in complex litigation. With a clinical ability to review significant amounts of material and legal arguments, Bayo has demonstrable laser like focus, well able to identify the key issues in dispute.” - Head of Litigation, FTSE 100 Energy Company
Bayo Randle is a leading junior barrister specialising in employment law, recognised in both Chambers UK Bar and Legal 500 since 2021 for his incisive advocacy, strategic clarity, and client-friendly manner. He is frequently instructed by major financial institutions, media giants, and technology companies—particularly in high-stakes litigation involving whistleblowing, discrimination, injunctions, and complex industrial relations disputes. His practice also includes specialist work in the crossover area between employment and tax, particularly IR35. Bayo regularly appears in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), High Court, and Court of Appeal.
He is described in the directories as:
“technically astute, commercially focused and pragmatic... a very natural and persuasive advocacy style. Clients love him”. (Legal 500, 2025)
“brilliant with clients and witnesses” and “very hardworking and well prepared”. (Chambers UK, 2025).
Appellate
Bayo has appeared in several appellate matters in the EAT and Court of Appeal, often as sole counsel in significant and legally complex cases, including in:
Discrimination & Whistleblowing
Bayo has extensive experience in multi-strand discrimination and whistleblowing cases, often acting for large employers in lengthy and high-profile proceedings. Recent cases include the following:
TUPE
Bayo is also highly experienced in TUPE matters and frequently advises on complex transfer scenarios involving outsourcing, insourcing, and business acquisitions. His work covers contractual variation, post-transfer liabilities, and disputes over employee rights within restructured governance frameworks. See for example:
Buckley v Greenwood Academies Trust [2018] EWHC 2441 (Comm) – Successfully defended a TUPE-related wrongful dismissal claim brought by a teacher, in which the court rejected arguments that dismissal procedures breached contract or natural justice following academisation.
Restrictive Covenants & Injunctions
Bayo regularly appears in High Court applications concerning non-compete clauses, team moves, and breaches of confidentiality. Recently he acted in H v W (2024) defending an application for interim relief seeking to enforce post-termination restrictions against a senior tech executive.
Industrial Relations
Bayo advises and acts in disputes involving trade union recognition, collective consultation and industrial action, with particular experience under TULR(C)A 1992. Recent cases include:
Laura Frank & Ors v AGL Realisations Ltd (Arcadia Group) (2024) – Acted for the employer in protective award litigation concerning collective redundancies across the Arcadia retail group.
IR35 and Employment Status
Bayo is frequently instructed by HMRC and major employers in high-profile IR35 and employment status litigation, particularly involving personal service companies in the media and tech sectors. His cross-disciplinary expertise in employment and tax law allows him to navigate these disputes with authority.
S&L Barnes Ltd v HMRC [2024] UKUT 262 (TCC) – Led by Christopher Stone KC (sole counsel in the FTT). Acted for HMRC in a media-sector IR35 appeal involving Sky Sports punditry. The case turned on mutuality of obligation and hypothetical contract construction.
Alan Parry Productions Ltd v HMRC [2022] UKFTT 194 (TC) – Acted as sole counsel for HMRC. The tribunal found the broadcaster would have been an employee under the hypothetical contract test.
Bayo has a wide-ranging tax practice, regularly acting for HMRC in complex and high-value litigation before both the First-tier and Upper Tribunals. His expertise includes inheritance tax, business property relief, the remittance basis, carried interest and investment management taxation, employment-related tax disputes such as IR35, and questions of income and capital characterisation. He is frequently led in matters of strategic and legal complexity but also appears alone in technically demanding appeals.
Inheritance Tax & Business Property Relief
Income and Capital Gains Tax
Remittance Basis & Offshore Funds
Employment Status & IR35
Residence & Jurisdiction
Construction Industry Scheme
Bayo is regularly instructed in commercial litigation involving contract, tort and fiduciary issues, including disputes with overlapping regulatory, employment, or insolvency angles. He acts in shareholder, partnership, and boardroom disputes, and is adept at managing litigation involving concurrent internal or reputational sensitivities. He frequently appears in the High Court and has advised on appellate strategy in business-critical and multi-party commercial claims.
Bayo has a growing public law practice, enhanced by his appointment to the Attorney General’s B Panel in 2024. He regularly appears in judicial review claims, statutory appeals, and proceedings under the Senior Courts Act 1981 involving vexatious litigants and systemic abuse of process.
Bayo is frequently instructed as an independent investigator in complex internal matters, particularly within the legal, banking, and media sectors. His investigation work includes grievances, bullying and harassment complaints, and disciplinary and appeal processes. He is valued for his discretion, forensic approach, and ability to distil complicated and emotive issues into clear, defensible conclusions.
He also advises employers on investigation frameworks and legally robust internal procedures, ensuring procedural fairness and minimising litigation risk.
COMBAR, ELA, ELBA, PNBA, RBA, LCLCBA (committee member), Black Barristers' Network (committee member), Legal Outreach Partnership Group, Commercial Court Users’ Group
2024 - Junior Counsel to the Crown (B Panel)
2019 - Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel)
Lincoln’s Inn:
Lord Denning Scholar (2011)
Hardwicke Entrance Award (2011)
University of Nottingham:
Law Graduates' Association Moot Prize (2011)
The George Norton Memorial Prize (2011)
The Azlan Shah Prize (2011)
BCL (Conflict of Laws, Commercial Remedies, Personal Taxation, Principles of Civil Procedure), Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (2013)
Bar Professional Training Course, Kaplan Law School (Very Competent) (2012)
LLB Law with European Law, University of Nottingham (First Class Honours, ranked 3rd on degree) (2011)
Erasmus (European and International Law), University of Copenhagen (2010)