Outer Temple Chambers

Barrister; Year of Call 2021

Chevan Ilangaratne is a specialist Employment, Education Law,  Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence law practitioner.

Chevan represents both Claimants and Respondents/Defendants in statutory and commercial employment disputes. He has acted in a number of preliminary, and multi-day Tribunal hearings in the Employment Tribunal, as well in the High Court proceedings regarding post-termination restrictions and breach of confidence related injunctions.

He is also well-equipped to act in the County Court having appeared in this forum on many occasions in commercial, personal injury, clinical negligence, discrimination and employment law related disputes, acting on behalf of both Claimant and Defendants.

Before coming to the Bar, Chevan worked alongside leading barristers in a number of legal charities providing advocacy and advisory services in areas including whistleblowing law, disability discrimination law, and education law.

As a Legal Adviser at the whistleblowing charity Protect, Chevan advised workers in the public, private and third sector on the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. He also prepared training materials for businesses across the private sector on implementing appropriate ‘speak up’ arrangements. He conducted research for Protect’s third-party intervention in the Court of Appeal case of Gilham v MoJ [2017] EWCA Civ 2220, and subsequently its successful intervention in the Supreme Court (Gilham v MoJ [2019] UKSC 44).

In other legal charity work, Chevan helped represent children in school exclusion hearings and community care cases and advised members of the public on the Human Rights Act 1998 and Covid-19 regulations. He also helped draft appeals before the European Court of Human Rights using his knowledge of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Having spent six months working for a boutique law firm in Toronto, Canada as part of Middle Temple’s Harold G Fox Scholarship, Chevan not only gained exposure to another jurisdiction, but also worked on a number of matters including public law appeals concerning cutting edge human rights issues before the Supreme Court of Canada and defamation cases.

Lincoln’s Inn
Employment Lawyers Association UK (ELA)

Chevan finished in the top 5% of his cohort during his LLB Law degree at the University of Leeds, having secured a First Class Honours. Chevan also holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge, having specialised in medical law, data protection law, and human rights. He was also a Lord Denning Scholar (including being in receipt of a Residential Scholarship) at Lincoln’s Inn, which supported his studies through Bar School.