Chevan Ilangaratne is a specialist Employment Law and Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Law Practitioner, having completed a Pupillage solely in these areas of law under the supervision of Colin Baran and Elizabeth Hodgetts. He subsequently joined Chambers as a Tenant in October 2022.
Before coming to the Bar, Chevan worked in a number of legal charities providing advocacy and advisory services in areas including whistleblowing law, disability rights, and children’s rights.
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, and prepared training materials for various employers 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; advised members of the public on the Human Rights Act 1998 and Covid-19 regulations; and 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 Canada as part of Middle Temple’s Harold G Fox Scholarship, Chevan got exposure to another jurisdiction, and worked on public law appeals concerning cutting edge human rights issues before Supreme Court of Canada.
Chevan also holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge, having specialised in medical law, data protection law, and human rights.
Away from work, Chevan maintains a strong interest in cricket owing to his Sri Lankan and Yorkshire roots, frequently visiting the latter to see friends and family. He has also had the good fortune to live and work in Budapest, Hungary, and Toronto, Canada … so no longer complains about cold weather in the UK!
