Naomi HART
Naomi is described as a “leading star at Essex Court”, “a gifted advocate” and a “first choice junior” with a “brilliant mind” and “huge commitment to her cases”. She has a diverse practice in international, commercial, human rights and public law and was identified as one of the Hot 100 by The Lawyer in 2023. She is recognised in the major directories as a leading junior in Public International Law, International Arbitration, Public and Administrative Law, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law, and Environmental Law. Naomi was recognised as International Arbitration Junior of the Year in 2025 and was shortlisted as International Law Junior of the Year in 2023. In 2025 she was included in Jus Connect’s Power List of arbitration practitioners, and currently features in Lexology’s Index of Arbitration Future Leaders.
Naomi has acted in nine cases before the International Court of Justice as well as in proceedings before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights (including four cases before the Grand Chamber), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, various United Nations treaty bodies and the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization. She is routinely involved in cases before English and foreign domestic courts which involve questions of public international law as well as in investor-State disputes. Much of her wide human rights practice before English, international, regional and foreign domestic courts is pro bono.
Naomi’s commercial practice encompasses civil fraud, conflict of laws, shipping and general commercial disputes. She acts as junior and sole counsel, with recent cases before the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Commercial Court, Chancery Division and King’s Bench Division (including the Administrative Court). In addition to the courts of England and Wales, she has been involved in cases before the courts of Northern Ireland, the British Virgin Islands, St Helena, Mauritius, Sweden, Türkiye, Norway, Australia, Malaysia and South Africa (among others). Her arbitration experience includes proceedings under the DIFC, LCIA, ICC, PCA, SCC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and LMAA Rules.
Spanning her international, human rights, commercial and public law practice, Naomi acts regularly in diverse matters involving climate change and other environmental issues.
Naomi has been appointed to both the Public International Law B Panel of Junior Counsel and the Attorney General’s London B Panel of Civil Counsel (having previously been appointed to both C Panels). She was appointed in 2023 to the Legal Services Panel of the Government of the Virgin Islands, and in 2024 to the B Panel of Counsel of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She is an Honorary International Law Practice Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, a member of the Bar Council’s International Committee and on the Executive Committee of the Bar Human Rights Committee.
Naomi holds a doctorate in international law from the University of Cambridge, for which was she awarded the Faculty of Law’s prestigious Yorke Prize. She is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales. At the University of Sydney, she received First Class Honours in her Law degree (ranking second in her year) and the University Medal and First Class Honours in History (ranking first in her year).
