3 Hare Court

Tabitha Hutchison is building a broad practice across all of Chambers’ core practice areas.

Tabitha is regularly in Court and the Employment Tribunal for applications and trials, alongside a busy written practice.

Before joining Chambers, Tabitha Hutchison spent a year as Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Dingemans in the Court of Appeal, where she worked on significant public law cases such as R (Cabinet Office) v Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry and Ors [2023] EWHC 1702 (Admin) and R (Good Law Project) v Prime Minister and ors [2022] EWCA Civ 1580.

Tabitha’s previous experience as a paralegal at Leigh Day and as an assistant to a leading media, public law and human rights barrister has given her expertise in personal injury, insolvency, regulatory and defamation law, as well as group litigation, inquests and inquiries. She was closely involved in drafting closing submissions for the final phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and in preparing advice, pleadings and skeleton arguments for high-profile media cases.

Before being called to the Bar, Tabitha graduated with a degree in Classics from the University of Cambridge and then spent three years in New Delhi, working in human rights and education. She completed the GDL and the Bar Course with Distinction, having had the benefit of multiple scholarships.