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Tom Gibson
Work Department
Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Sports Law
Position
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Sports Law.
Career
Year of Call; 2010.
Tom specialises in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury – and has done so since joining Outer Temple Chambers in 2011. He does a good balance of claimant and defendant work.
Tom is a former solicitor, having qualified at Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May in 2010 before transferring to the Bar.
Before joining Outer Temple Tom was a Judicial Assistant to Arden LJ (as she then was) at the Court of Appeal during 2010-11.
Tom has undertaken pro bono work for AvMA, the Bar Pro Bono Unit, the Law Society’s LawWorks Mediation Scheme, and the FRU. He appeared pro bono in the Court of Appeal, as sole counsel, for the successful appellant in Duffy v George [2013] EWCA Civ 908.
Tom has a First Class Maths degree from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. He completed his GDL and LPC at BPP Law School in London.
Away from the law Tom enjoys spending time with his young family, running, and watching the mighty Carlisle United FC.
Memberships
- Attorney General’s C panel of Counsel to the Crown (2016-2021)
- Judicial Assistant to Arden LJ (2010-2011)
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
- Personal Injuries Bar Association
Education
William Howard School, Cumbria; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University (2002-2005, BA Mathematics (First Class)); BPP Law School, London (2005-2007, GDL, LPC).
Leisure
Away from the Law, Tom enjoys spending time with his young family, running, and watching the mighty Carlisle United FC.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Tom Gibson –Outer Temple Chambers ‘Tom is clear and methodical in his approach to things. His advice is always clear and practical demonstrating awareness of not only the matters important to the client but the commercial aspects to a case as well.’
Outer Temple Chambers has ‘good strength in depth at both silk and junior level’ in the clinical negligence space. Eliot Woolf KC has a notable specialism in wrongful birth cases, while Nathan Tavares is acting in the Lariam claimants v Ministry of Defence claim, concerning military personnel who suffered long-term psychiatric symptoms after being negligently prescribed an anti-malarial drug. Junior Tom Gibson appeared in the Purchase v Dr Ahmed claim, one of the three secondary victim conjoined appeals concerning psychiatric injury to those who have witnessed the death of a loved one due to negligence, which progressed to the Supreme Court in May 2023, he has additional strength in sports-related clinical negligence cases.