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Thomas Robinson
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Commercial and insolvency.
Position
Thomas practises a broad range of commercial litigation and advisory work, including personal and corporate insolvency, employment and contractual disputes. He is currently instructed by the Pensions Regulator in high-profile cases in relation to Financial Support Directions and Contribution Notices. Recently he has been involved in reported litigation concerning reservation of title clauses and contesting the use of arrest warrants under the Insolvency Act 1986. His six-month placement with a firm in Guernsey in 2006 has given him experience of off-shore litigation as well as experience working directly with a wide range of clients to achieve practical and commercial resolutions of disputes. For more detailed information, please consult the barristers’ section on ?www.11sb.com.
Career
Called 2003; Lincoln’s Inn. Thomas was graded Outstanding in Advocacy during his Bar Vocational Course and was awarded third place in Lincoln’s Inn’s Gluckstein Advocacy Prize for 2004. In 2005 he spent a legal term as a judicial assistant to the Court of Appeal, Civil Division. From June to December 2006 he was seconded to the Commercial Litigation department of AO Hall Advocates in Guernsey, working on trust and banking litigation, shareholder disputes and the enforcement of restrictive covenants. Thomas has written on insolvency for International Corporate Rescue (Chase Cambria) and has been published on Complinet, the online resource for compliance professionals. Together with other members of Chambers’ insolvency team he contributes monthly case law updates to Corporate Rescue and Insolvency, published by Lexis Nexis.
Education
Sherborne School; Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA Hons; MA in classics).
