Harry Wright

Practice Areas

Harry is a commercial barrister who has appeared and continues to act in some of the most prominent and high-value commercial litigation at the English Bar. This includes the FCA Test Case on business interruption insurance claims arising from Covid-19 (recently decided by the Supreme Court); a Supreme Court appeal in a professional negligence claim against auditors (Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton); a shipbuilding case concerning guarantees, currently on appeal to the Supreme Court (Shanghai Shipyard v Reignwood); and a heavy and valuable insurance and professional negligence trial, acting for the broker (ABN Amro v RSA and others), which is also now on appeal to the Supreme Court. In the aviation sphere, Harry is currently instructed by one of the major insurers involved in litigation following the alleged loss of aircraft in Russia as a result of the Ukraine war.

As well as forming part of a team in large and high-profile commercial cases, Harry regularly appears as sole counsel, and has already developed a reputation for the quality of his oral advocacy and cross-examination: the 2021 Legal 500 describing him as an “excellent advocate” with “good instincts for how to deal with both witnesses and the court”.