Harry Hatwell commences his tenancy at Gough Square Chambers today, following the successful completion of his pupillage.
Gough Square Chambers is delighted to announce that Harry Hatwell has completed his pupillage and joins chambers as a tenant.
Harry came to Bar after training as a solicitor at Slaughter and May, and completing master’s degrees at the University of Oxford and Yale Law School.
During his pupillage Harry worked across chambers’ core practice areas. In financial services he regularly appeared in the County Court in matters concerning the Consumer Credit Act 1974, researched the application of MiFID to cryptocurrency trading, and co-edited the consumer credit chapter of the Pink Book. In regulatory crime and general regulatory work, he received regular instructions from Transport for London, acting through the DVLA. He also assisted members of chambers with challenges to the Competition and Markets Authority’s new enforcement powers under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Harry continues to develop his practice in all of chambers’ core practice areas.
Harry also built a busy pro bono practice, acting as sole counsel in insolvency, property, employment and public law matters. He completed his Advocates Pupil Pledge in his second week of practice and undertook more than 200 hours of pro bono work in his second six. In his second week of tenancy he will conduct a two-day trial on claims in the contract and unjust enrichment, on a pro bono instruction from Advocate.
Harry is also an active writer and teacher with published case notes and articles in the New Law Journal and the Journal of international Banking and Financial Law. He continues to teach at Queen Mary University of London and King’s College London, and has been appointed to teach property law at The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Harry’s full profile can be found below.
