Lauren Hitchman > Chambers of Lord Grabiner KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Lauren Hitchman

Position

Lauren welcomes instructions across the full spectrum of commercial disputes. In addition to her commercial work, Lauren acts in employment and public law matters, and has a particular interest in cases that sit at the intersection of these areas.

Lauren is a former Visiting Lecturer in Contract Law at City, University of London. She was awarded the Inner Temple’s Princess Royal Scholarship (the Inn’s top award) for the law conversion, as well as scholarships from COMBAR and City Law School. For the Bar course, Lauren was awarded a Major Scholarship by the Inner Temple and a further scholarship from City Law School. Lauren subsequently won the Jarman Prize for ranking 1^st out of 72 pupils in the Inner Temple Pupils’ Advocacy Prize 2021.

Career

Lauren’s current and recent instructions include:

• Flowcrete UK Ltd and others v Vebro Polymers UK Ltd and others (2023): acted for the claimants (led by Timothy Killen) in a claim for breach of confidence and unlawful means conspiracy relating to the alleged taking of confidential information by a competitor in the industrial and construction chemicals industry;

• A fintech company v former employees (ongoing): acting for the claimant (led by Diya Sen Gupta KC) in a claim against former employees for the misuse of confidential information;

• UK Covid-19 Inquiry: instructed as junior Counsel to the Inquiry, chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett DBE.

Memberships

ALBA

COMBAR

ELA

ELBA

Education

BPTC, City University, Outstanding

GDL, City University, Distinction

MSt English (1900-Present), Oxford University, Distinction (1^st in year and 4^th across all post-graduate English programmes), fully funded by a HEFCE Oxford Graduate Bursary

BA English Literature, Durham University, First Class

Personal

From 2015 to 2018, Lauren worked for some of the West End’s leading theatre producers on productions such as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Ferryman, The Birthday Party, The Book of Mormon, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, and Blood Brothers, as well as transfers from the Almeida Theatre (such as Ink and Hamlet).