Malcolm Sheehan QC

Henderson Chambers

A product liability specialist by trade, Malcolm Sheehan QC’s career has been spent gaining deep knowledge of the minutiae of everyday things. His intense focus on details has seen him become one of the nation’s most trusted professionals on liability disputes, especially those involving pharmaceutical businesses.

Last year he acted on the defence side of the long-running Seroxat litigation, as well as having played a significant part in the Pelvic Mesh litigation which first kicked off in 2011.

His experience on cases that need an eye for detail saw him take on the highlight of his year. For a mandate handed to him by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) he tackled a review into the regulation surrounding the Football Index betting group. From instruction to publication, the investigation took just three months, which is a remarkably short time frame to assess the implications and make recommendations to the Government. Alongside chambers junior Christopher Adams, Sheehan took on the task and DCMS has announced that it will implement the vast majority of the recommendations he made. The work was a ground-breaking piece of public safeguarding and rightly earned Sheehan a spot on this year’s Hot 100 list.