Mohinderpal Sethi KC

Practice Areas

Top Ranked trial and appellate advocate whose expertise spans the full range of commercial, employment, partnership and sport, regularly appearing at the highest levels in domestic, international and offshore courts (including DIFC and ADGM) and arbitral tribunals.

He has over 25 years of experience representing clients ranging from multinational corporations, global banks, UK and foreign governments to high-profile public figures, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and boardroom executives in often high-value, market-sensitive, or politically charged matters.

Exceptionally, he was appointed by the Attorney-General ‘directly’ to the A-Panel of Counsel to the Crown to undertake the highest profile work for HM Government.

He has been instructed in many of the leading cases from employee competition and team moves to whistleblowing, discrimination and bonus claims.

Recent Supreme Court appearances include: the leading Supreme Court authority on state immunity under international law (Saudi Arabia v Costantine) [2025] UKSC 0061; and the only-ever case to leapfrog appeal from EAT to Supreme Court (Basfar v Wong [2023] AC 33).

Reported team move cases include: obtaining Court of Appeal team move injunctions against directors and shareholders (MIMO Connect Ltd v Buley [2023] EWCA Civ 909); breaches of confidence and covenants (Quilter Private Client Advisers Ltd v Falconer [2022] IRLR 227); contempt of court for breaching injunction order (Advetec Holdings Ltd v Shaw [2020] EWHC 2660).

Reported Middle East cases include: the first-ever discrimination, victimisation, and whistleblowing trial in the DIFC Courts (Mahmood v Standard Chartered Bank [2024] DIFC CFI 044/2021); and an ultra-high-value bonus claim (Kahlon v Liberty Steel Group Ltd [2024] DIFC CFI).

High-profile investigations and inquiries include: being appointed to chair the high-profile independent investigation into Yorkshire County Cricket Club; and chairing the independent inquiry into anti-Semitism at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

He is the former Chair of the UK’s Employment Law Bar Association.

Recent awards include: Employment Silk of the Year (Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023); Senior Counsel of the Year (International Employment Lawyer Awards 2023); Civil Lawyer of the Year (Asian Legal Awards 2022); Barrister of the Year Finalist (The Lawyer Awards 2022); and shortlisted for Employment Silk of the Year (Chambers UK Bar Awards 2022).

For a comprehensive CV, visit mosethikc.com.

Career

Called 1996. Silk 2019. Master of the Bench of Middle Temple 2024.

The Queen Mother's Scholar (the premier Inn scholarship). The Malcolm Wright Prizewinner. Harmsworth Major Entrance Exhibitioner.

Professional Memberships

ELBA (former Chair), ELA (former Editorial Board Member), ILS, COMBAR, LCLCBA, APP

Publications

Author of several leading publications including 'Employment Tribunal Remedies' (fourth edition, OUP), ‘Termination of Employment’ (Bloomsbury Professional) and ‘Injunctions’ (PLC).

Personal

Langdon Comprehensive School, East Ham, London Borough of Newham

Wadham College, University of Oxford: MA Hons Jurisprudence, Wadham First Class Scholar.

Embarrassing golf handicap, temperamental tennis serve, currently looking to form a band called “The Struggling Chords”.