Hari Bravery

Barrister

Call: 2025

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Overview

Hari joined Littleton Chambers as a tenant in October 2026 following the successful completion of his pupillage. Through his pupillage, Hari has gained experience across the full spectrum of employment, commercial, sports and international law cases. He accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ main practice areas.

Before becoming a tenant at Littleton Chambers, Hari graduated with a prize-winning First Class degree from the University of Oxford. He was then awarded a Major Scholarship by the Inner Temple to undertake the Bar Course. Hari was appointed as a Visiting Lecturer in Constitutional Law at City St George’s, University of London at the age of 22, where he taught undergraduate and postgraduate public, international and human rights law.

Expertise

Employment

Hari is well-versed in all aspects of statutory employment work. He appears as sole counsel in Employment Tribunal cases concerning discrimination, dismissal and whistleblowing.

Hari appears as junior counsel in High Court commercial employment and business protection disputes. He has experience in the law of post-termination restrictions, breaches of confidentiality and urgent interim injunctions.

Hari also accepts instructions to assist with workplace investigations of all types.

Examples of Hari’s employment work include:

Statutory Employment (Employment Tribunal):

  • Drafting several Grounds of Resistance for a luxury department store, defending separate claims of disability discrimination, unfair dismissal, whistleblowing detriment, unlawful deduction of wages and sexual harassment.
  • Drafting a skeleton argument for an interim relief hearing concerning an allegation of whistleblowing dismissal.
  • Conducting a witness statement review exercise for a worker status group litigation.
  • Drafting an advice on whether an unsigned Service Agreement was binding on an executive director, board member and shareholder of a company.
  • Drafting a research note on whether referring to the LLP agreement of a solicitors’ firm would constitute a waiver of confidentiality resulting in the LLP agreement becoming a public document.
  • Drafting a successful application to file a defence out of time.
  • Drafting a successful application for anonymity in relation to employees accusing a colleague of sexual and racial harassment.
  • Drafting Grounds of Resistance on behalf of a prominent investment bank in response to claims of unfair dismissal, whistleblowing dismissal and age-based harassment.
  • Drafting a research note on whether a limited company can bring a valid claim for associative disability discrimination.
  • Drafting questions arising from an employment expert’s report on a successful Claimant’s ability to obtain future employment.
  • Drafting a research note on whether an employer is bound by the decision of an external investigator in relation to an appeal against summary dismissal.
  • Drafting Grounds of Resistance on behalf of a private girls’ school defending alleged breaches of the Part-Time Worker Regulations 2000 and indirect sex discrimination claims.
  • Drafting a skeleton argument on behalf of an unincorporated association in a political belief and disability discrimination claim.

Commercial Employment & Business Protection (High Court):

  • Drafting Particulars of Claim for an ongoing High Court dispute concerning breaches of contract, fiduciary duties and confidence by C-suite executives in an insurance firm (led by Jeremy Lewis KC and James Bickford Smith).
  • Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Antuan [2026] EWHC 1708 (KB): drafting the skeleton argument for an urgent injunction protecting confidential documents removed from an embassy and retained by former employees (assisting Mo Sethi KC and Joel Wallace).
  • Drafting an advice on the enforceability and validity of post-termination restrictions included in the employment contract of a senior talent agent.
  • Guy Carpenter v Willis Ltd [2026] EWHC 361 (KB): assisting with disclosure review, chronology creation, cast lists and legal research.

Investigations:

  • Acting as note-taker for a disciplinary and grievance investigation into alleged misconduct by a senior employee at a prominent supermarket.
  • Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Antuan [2026] EWHC 1708 (KB)
  • Guy Carpenter v Willis Ltd [2026] EWHC 361 (KB)
Commercial Litigation

Hari has a significant interest in all areas of commercial law, including civil fraud, contract claims and shareholder disputes.

Examples of Hari’s commercial work include:

  • Drafting a skeleton argument opposing a security for costs application in a High Court case concerning alleged fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of warranties and breach of directors’ duties related to embezzlement by the former Chairman of a League Two football club in the context of a breached Share Purchase Agreement.
  • Conducting a pleadings analysis of eight separate pleadings for a complex civil fraud claim involving 13 defendants.
  • Drafting a research note on the circumstances in which a shareholders’ agreement binds shareholders who had not signed the relevant agreement.
Sport

Hari has a keen interest in all aspects of sports law. He welcomes instructions in cases concerning regulatory conflicts, disciplinary proceedings, contractual claims and athlete selection disputes.

Hari has a particular familiarity with domestic football (FA and EFL) rules, regulations and proceedings.

Examples of Hari’s sports work include:

  • Drafting pleadings on behalf of a Premier League football club in proceedings before the Professional Football Compensation Committee (assisting Steven Flynn).
  • Bansal McNulty v QPR and ors ET 2201376/2023: assisting with the drafting of cross-examination, closing submissions and case strategy in a widely reported 6-week Employment Tribunal trial (assisting Joel Wallace and Mia Chaudhuri-Julyan).
  • Drafting a skeleton argument opposing a security for costs application in a High Court case concerning alleged fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of warranties and breach of directors’ duties related to embezzlement by the former Chairman of a League Two football club in the context of a breached Share Purchase Agreement.
  • Drafting Particulars of Claim challenging the decision of a national sports governing body to suspend a coach on safeguarding grounds.
  • Drafting a research note on whether the FA is an agent of FIFA under either common law or Equality Act 2010 agency principles.
  • Drafting Points of Claim and skeletons for two agent disputes in FA Rule K arbitrations.
  • Bansal McNulty v QPR and ors ET 2201376/2023
International & Offshore

Hari has a particular academic interest in cases involving an international law element. He has experience in both domestic cases engaging public international law principles and offshore cases in different jurisdictions.

In domestic courts:

  • Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Antuan [2026] EWHC 1708 (KB): drafting the skeleton argument for an urgent injunction protecting the inviolability of embassy documents under Article 24 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961 (assisting Mo Sethi KC and Joel Wallace).

In the Dubai International Financial Centre:

  • Drafting a research note on the correct approach to whistleblowing detriment and dismissal claims in the DIFC in the light of conflicting statutory provisions.
  • Drafting a research note on the prospects of a post-termination victimisation claim in the DIFC.

In other arbitral centres:

  • Drafting the cross-examination of a Russian law expert witness in a commercial arbitration before the London Court of International Arbitration (assisting Rupert D’Cruz KC and Asfandyar Qureshi).
  • Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Antuan [2026] EWHC 1708 (KB)

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