Harry Laidlaw

Harry Laidlaw has a diverse practice which covers all areas of Chambers expertise and is regularly instructed to represent companies and individuals in Criminal Proceedings, Health and Safety Prosecutions and Inquests.

Harry’s grounding is in Criminal Law. He regularly acts for the defence and prosecution in the Court of Appeal and Crown Court as well as the Magistrates’ and Youth Court. Harry is regularly instructed in matters involving serious violence (including murder), firearms, drugs offences, fraud and sexual offence and is often instructed to represent vulnerable individuals who suffer with a range of mental health difficulties. Harry acts on both a private and publicly funded basis.

Harry is also regularly instructed to represent organisations at Inquests with a particular speciality in inquests involving complex medical issues. In addition, Harry has experience defending those charged with Health & Safety offences having recently been instructed as junior counsel in the case of Reading Borough Council v R P Ltd, a child death health and safety prosecution.

Outside of Court work Harry is currently instructed by Peters & Peters as junior counsel in relation to the Post Office ‘Horizon’ Appeals reviewing hundreds of convictions from the Post Office’s use of data from the Horizon computer system in prosecutions between 2000 and 2014.