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Harry Sheehan

Harry Sheehan

Devereux, London

Position

Harry has a busy practice which covers Personal Injury, Employment, and Tax. He is ranked as a leading Junior within The Legal 500 2025 Personal Injury Guide, and a Rising Star with The legal 500 2025 Employment Guide.

Harry has been instructed as junior counsel in a number of large and complex cases. He is currently instructed in the Supreme Court proceedings in Professional Game Match Officials Limited v HMRC as junior Counsel to Jonathan Peacock KC and appeared in the Supreme Court as junior counsel to Robert Weir KC in the case of Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring [2019] UKSC 38. He regularly acts as sole counsel in both the civil courts and employment tribunals.

Prior to commencing Pupillage, Harry read Philosophy at Cambridge and obtained a masters from UCL where he studied the nature of promises.

Memberships

PIBA; ELBA; ELA; RBA

Education

City University, Bar Professional Training Course (very competent)

City University, Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction)

University College London, MPhil Stud. Moral and Political Philosophy

University of Cambridge (Selwyn College), MA (Double First Class Honours Degree) Philosophy

Mentions

London Bar

Employment

Rising star1
Harry Sheehan – Devereux
London Bar

Personal injury

Leading junior4
Harry Sheehan – Devereux Chambers ‘Harry is very responsive and helpful.  He is also very thorough and provides detailed advices.’