Harriet joined chambers in April 2022 after spending the first few years of her career at the Bar at KBW Chambers. She accepts instructions in all aspects of public and private law children proceedings.Prior to joining the Bar, Harriet worked in the clinical negligence department of the UK’s leading litigation-only law firm. Her experience in reviewing medical evidence and attending expert conferences in cases of the utmost severity, including spinal and birth injuries, enables her to analyse complex medical evidence, forensic reports and voluminous police disclosure with ease.Harriet is experienced in particularly sensitive care proceedings, including those heard in the High Court due to legal complexity. She has a special interest in complex care proceedings relating to serious non-accidental injuries, including fractures, significant bruising, fabricated and induced illness, and sexual abuse. She is experienced in representing local authorities, parents, and children via their Children’s Guardian, as well as other relatives or third parties who have been invited to intervene in proceedings. Her wide-ranging experience includes the representation of care-leavers, disabled children and their parents, victims of serious domestic violence, children and adults with complex mental health needs, and those with drug and alcohol addictions.Harriet’s instructions in private law proceedings regularly include complex cases requiring expert assessment, fact-finding hearings, jurisdictional issues, and the appointment of a Children’s Guardian. She is also experienced in providing advice and representation in Cost Order applications both as an interim position and at the conclusion of proceedings.Harriet is approachable and builds rapport quickly with lay and professional clients, resulting in regular repeat instructions. She is known for her calm and measured approach and ensures that the client fully understands what to expect from each hearing. Lay clients appreciate not only her compassion and empathy, but her honesty and tactical insight, understanding that she has their best interests at heart, whilst her professional clients appreciate her pragmatic and comprehensive advice, approachable manner, and meticulous preparation to every case.

May is a specialist employment law barrister. She is listed as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 and Up-and-Coming in Chambers &amp; Partners. She is described as 'excellent in court' and her submissions as 'exceptional'. Recent clients include Asda, Network Rail, Sky, and numerous NHS Trusts.May regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal for both preliminary and final hearings. She has significant experience with multi-day final hearings, substantive preliminary hearings, and remedy hearings. May has particular expertise in cases involving healthcare and public sector clients, including the NHS, as she completed a secondment at a leading solicitors' firm working almost exclusively with such clients, and has frequently represented such clients in the Tribunals since then. Recent work includes: <ul> <li> A 10-day disability discrimination case for a national telecommunications company;</li> <li> A 5-day disability discrimination case for the NHS;</li> <li> A 1-day preliminary hearing on employment status for a dental surgery;</li> <li> A 4-day race discrimination and unfair dismissal case for a national retailer;</li> <li> A 2-day remedy hearing where she successfully argued for re-engagement and back-pay.</li> </ul> &nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">May welcomes instructions to draft Grounds of Complaint and Grounds of Response. She regularly advises on liability in employment law matters and prides herself on her quick turnaround time for employment papers. </span>May has written for the ELA's Employment Law Briefing. She is happy to, and regularly does, provide training talks on employment law issues. She also accepts instructions to provide mock tribunals.