Harry Hatwell

Harry Hatwell writes case note on CMA enforcement action against Emma Group for the New Law Journal

July 24, 2026

Harry Hatwell recognised with Advocate’s Pupil Pledge

May 18, 2026

Gough Square Chambers welcomes new pupil, Harry Hatwell

November 10, 2025

• Harry regularly appears in the County Court in financial services / regulated finance matters concerning the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and complex aspects of civil procedure.
• Research for Kevin de Haan KC, Fred Philpott, and Kate Urell on the application of MiFID to cryptocurrency trading.

During non-practising period of pupillage:

• Conducted review of suite of lending documentation.
• Assisted in drafting a research note on limitation in unfair relationship consumer credit claims post-Zedra (USKC, 2026).
• Conducted research on extortionate credit bargain regime and tipping points in relation to unfair relationship claims post-Johnson (UKSC, 2025).
• Research and drafting advice on regulated electricity supplies.
• Research on the application of the indemnity principle where a conditional fee agreement is in place and the powers of the court to order disclosure of the agreement (motor commission consequentials hearing where claim withdrawn).
• Research on costs consequences from potential counsel misconduct under the fixed costs regime.
• Assessing scope for additional arguments in live Court of Appeal proceedings.
• Co-edited chapter of the Pink Book on consumer credit law with Fred Philpott and Daniel Brayley/
• Attended mediation of a regulated mortgage dispute.
• Attended trials, strike-out appeals, appeals, and consequentials hearings for consumer credit claims covering regulated mortgages and motor commission with various members of chambers

• Regular instructions from Transport for London, conducting both trials and lists.
• Research and drafting on complex issues of extradition and international criminal law and procedure, led by Robin Kingham.

During non-practising period of pupillage:

• Attended PTPHs and trials for offences, including under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
• Conducted research on expert witnesses and previous adverse judicial comment.

• Sole counsel for partners in successfully dismissing insolvency and bankruptcy petitions (losses over £100,000) against HMRC, including submissions on costs (pro bono without solicitors). Successful submissions for costs on the indemnity basis against HMRC.
• Settled (and drafted settlement agreement) long-running director-shareholder company liquidation for less than one third of the amount sought (over £100,000) by liquidators (pro bono without solicitors).

• CMA direct enforcement under the DMCAA 2024: research and drafting re judicial review application in major direct enforcement action, assisting Cameron Crowe KC and Robin Kingham.

During non-practising period of pupillage:

• Assisted Jonathan Kirk KC and Stuart Jessop in relation to the Competition and Markets Authority’s exercise of its novel enforcement powers under the Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Researching and drafting challenges based on internal CMA appeal procedures, judicial review, and statutory High Court appeal grounds.
• Article on university claims following Hamon v UCL with Jonathan Kirk KC and Lee Finch.
• Drafted defences, skeleton arguments, and advice notes in relation to claims under the 2013 Cancellation Regulations and the Consumer Rights Act 2015

• Regular instructions for the Secretary of State for Transport acting through the DVLA in driving licence medical appeals.

During non-practising period of pupillage:

• Assisted Stuart Jessop during non-practising period of pupillage in professional disciplinary proceedings resulting from historical criminal offending. Drafting materials for anonymity application in relation to the underlying proceedings for consequential judicial review on common law and Human Rights Act 1998 grounds.

• Attorney General’s Junior Junior Scheme.
• Sole counsel in anticipated judicial review proceedings against the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, acting pro bono.
• Sole counsel for partners in proceedings and complaint against HMRC (pro bono without solicitors).
• CMA direct enforcement under the DMCAA 2024: research and drafting re judicial review application in major direct enforcement action, assisting Cameron Crowe KC and Robin Kingham.

During non-practising period of pupillage:

• Assisted Stuart Jessop in professional disciplinary proceedings relating to historical criminal offending. Researching appeal and judicial review grounds relating to underlying proceedings and contributing to drafting judicial review application considering common law and Human Rights Act 1998 issues.
• Assisted Jonathan Kirk KC and Stuart Jessop in relation to the Competition and Markets Authority’s exercise of its novel enforcement powers under the Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Researching and drafting challenges based on internal CMA appeal procedures, judicial review, injunction, and statutory High Court appeal grounds.

• Sole counsel for partners in VAT dispute underlying insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings (losses over £100,000) (pro bono). Advice on VAT late-payment penalty regime.
• North East Derbyshire District Council v Hardy (13 May 2026): Represented respondent to a bad husbandry application at short notice at a full-day hearing with four witnesses (First-tier Tribunal Property Chamber (Agricultural Land and Drainage). Acted pro bono as sole counsel and without solicitors.

• Represented claimant in factually, legally, and procedurally complex discrimination and wage deduction claim in the Employment Tribunal (contested preliminary hearing). Acted pro bono as sole counsel and without solicitors.

Harry writes for both academic and practitioner audiences on diverse areas of law. He has casenotes and articles under commission for leading academic journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal and Civil Justice Quarterly.

• Chapter in revised edition of a leading practitioner’s text on food law (under commission)
• Qayyum and Hatwell, ‘Is administrative unworkability a workable concept?’ Private Client Business (forthcoming)
• Hatwell, ‘Corporate independent contractors and vicarious liability: time for some principles’ (casenote on Burger v Risk Solutions BG and JD Wetherspoon Plc [2026] EWCA Civ 804) Professional Negligence (forthcoming)
• Hatwell, ‘The consumer’s right to a price reduction: Yorkshire Yurts v Crane [2026] EWCC 41’ NLJ (forthcoming)
• Hatwell, ‘Low redress and weak merits make for healthy – but scrutinised – profits: Innsworth Capital v Competition Appeal Tribunal [2026] EWHC 1393 (Admin)’ (2026) 8 JIBFL 608
• Hatwell, ‘Don’t delay, buy today!’ (2026) 176 (8170) NLJ 11
• Hatwell, ‘Unfair Credit Relationships: Swinging A Broad Axe but with Reasons: Saxby Finance Limited v Ms Daphne Baker [2025] EWHC 2919 (KB)’ 7 JIBFL 520
• Hatwell, ‘Application of statutory limitation periods to consumer credit unfair relationship claims: THG Plc v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd [2026] UKSC 6’ (2026) 6 JIBFL 401
• Brayley, Philpott, and Hatwell, ‘Consumer Credit Law’ in Kirk (ed.), Consumer and Trading Standards Law and Practice (Butterworths, 2026)

Harry teaches, examines, and moderates examination marking as a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and as a Teaching Associate at Queen Mary, University of London:

• Commercial and Consumer Law (autumn 2026)
• Trusts (autumn 2026)
• Trusts (spring 2026)
• Torts (spring 2026)
• Contract (autumn 2025)

Harry trained at Slaughter and May in London (2021-23), where he was awarded numerous departmental and cohort-wide prizes for submission of legal know-how.

A flavour of his broad experience at Slaughter and May:

• In the Disputes & Investigations department, he assisted on the Municipio de Mariana appeal (the largest class action in English legal history), as well as long-running competition litigation, and drafted training materials for FTSE 100 companies on consumer and competition law.
• In Financing, he researched and drafted a detailed note of advice on conflicts of law.
• In Employment, Pensions, and Incentives, he researched and drafted substantive technical correspondence, notes of advice on whistleblowing, industrial action, transgender and intersex inclusion in sport.
• In Corporate, he advised FTSE 100 clients on preparing for AGMs and researched matters relating to a CMA greenwashing / consumer protection matter.
• Throughout his training contract, Harry maintained a busy pro bono practice. He volunteered for St Luke’s Job Clinic, advised a client for Access Social Care, prepared materials for an entrepreneurship scheme with Barclays, researched and advised on charities law, drafted training materials for charity trustees, and participated in community projects and outreach.

During his LL.M. year, Harry served as research assistant to Professor and former Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post (preparing the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy), and to Professor Fiona Scott Morton (preparing journal articles on American and EU antitrust law). Journals: Senior Submissions Advisor, Yale Law & Policy Review; Articles & Essays Editor, Yale Law & Policy Review; Articles Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism; Lead Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation; Notes and Comments Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Humanities.

During the BCL, Harry served as research assistant to Professor Jérôme Baudry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He also wrote a moot problem on consumer contract law for the compulsory mooting course for first-year law students on the BA in Jurisprudence at Oxford. In addition, Harry was employed by the Oxford Faculty of Law as the coach for Oxford’s team in the international Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2023/24. Equally as enjoyable and no less important, Harry also played Eugene in the musical Grease at Pembroke College and served as the assistant lighting / sound operator for A Series of Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis: The Musical.

Until indefinitely postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Harry was due to serve as the Foreign Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, Esther Hayut, having been selected in a competitive international application process.

At Yale Law School:

• Served as research assistant to Professor and former Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post (preparing the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy).
• Served as research assistant to Professor Fiona Scott Morton (preparing journal articles on American and EU antitrust law).
• Journals:
  • Senior Submissions Advisor, Yale Law & Policy Review;
  • Articles & Essays Editor, Yale Law & Policy Review;
  • Articles Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism;
  • Lead Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation; and
  • Notes and Comments Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Humanities.

At Oxford (BCL)

• Employed by the Oxford Faculty of Law as the coach for Oxford’s team in the international Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2023/24.
• Commissioned to write moot problem on consumer contract law for compulsory mooting first-year course for the BA in Jurisprudence at Oxford.
• Served as research assistant to Professor Jérôme Baudry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland).
• Played Eugene in the musical Grease at Pembroke College and served the assistant lighting / sound operator for A Series of Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis: The Musical.

Other:

• Until indefinitely postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Harry was due to serve as the Foreign Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, Esther Hayut, having been selected in a competitive international recruitment process.

LL.M. – Yale Law School, USA 2024-25

Bachelor of Civil Law – St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK (Distinction) 2023-24

Legal Practice Course – BPP Law School, UK (Distinction) 2021

European Law Certificate – Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), France (Pass) 2018-19

BA in Jurisprudence (Law with Law Studies in Europe) – St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK (First Class, ranked fifth in year across Oxford) 2016-20

Yale Law School:

• Brodie Center for Jewish & Israeli Law grant (to present research at international conference)
• Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund grant (to present research at international conference; two domestic research trips)
• Streicker Fund for Student Research (major international travel grant for fieldwork)

University of Oxford:

• Law Faculty Prize for Modern Legal History (best performance in BCL paper) – 2024
• College Prize for achieving a distinction – 2024
• One Essex Court Chambers Scholarship for the BCL – 2024
• College Prize for achieving first-class honours – 2020
• College Book Prize for performance in Administrative Law collection – 2019

Harry is fluent in French and developing his Hebrew.

• Health and Safety Law Association (HSLA)
• Financial Services Law Association (FSLA)