Rachael Mulheron KC (Hon) is Professor of Tort Law and Civil Justice at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, where she has taught since 2004. Since 2023, Rachael has also served as an Ordinary (Non judicial) member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Her principal fields of academic research and publication concern Torts, Medical Negligence, Collective (Class) Actions, and Civil Justice.

Rachael was a member of the Civil Justice Council, the jurisdiction’s civil justice law reform body, for almost a decade; has participated on rules-making committees on several issues (including the class actions regime of 2015); and at the appointment of either government or judiciary, has chaired numerous law reform working parties, including ‘hot-tubbing’, BTE insurance, and litigation funding. Prior to her academic career, Rachael practised as a solicitor in Brisbane, Australia, principally in Construction Law. In 2021, Rachael was appointed as Honorary Queen’s Counsel for services to law reform, and in 2024, was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.