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Tom Gillie
Position
Tom’s practice spans across a variety of areas including equality and human rights, employment, public and constitutional, education and commercial law. He is one of only a handful of barristers in the UK to specialise in political and electoral law as seen in his recent defence of the Labour Party in the High Court in claims concerning the Rt. Hon. Sir Keir Starmer MP and other Members of Parliament.
He has extensive experience acting for both Claimants and Defendants and has received instruction from high profile organisations in cases of public importance. Tom has acted as sole counsel in both the senior courts and tribunals.
He is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s panel of junior counsel and is ranked in Chambers and Partners.
Career
Called: 2013
Memberships
- Industrial Law Society
- ELA
- PIBA
- Franco-British Lawyers Society
- HOME: The Tenants Foundation (Chair)
- Bar Human Rights Committee
Education
- Bar On Straight Civil Partnerships is Lawful
- Settling Injury to Feelings: A Taxing Time
- Race Discrimination and Housing in Post Brexit Britain
- Housing, Race and the Right to Rent post Brexit
- Can Judicial Assessment help Claimants and Respondents in the Employment Tribunal?
- Bakers lose ‘Gay Cake’ case
- ‘2017: the year of the discount rate: a claimant’s perspective’ (co-author with Martyn McLeish), Journal of Personal Injury Law, (2017) No.2 Pages 109-117
- A guide to using statistics in equality and employment litigation
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Tom Gillie – Matrix Chambers ‘A junior who demonstrates commitment to his clients and work, friendliness and technical expertise.’
The employment team at Matrix Chambers has been kept busy advising on industrial relations cases, equal pay claims, restrictive covenants and discrimination matters, to name a few areas of instruction. James Laddie KC garners praise as ‘the barrister you want on your side on the most complex, sensitive and reputationally-concerning matters‘. Mathew Purchase KC is well-known for representing claimants, employers and trade unions before all levels of the judicial system. Turning to the juniors, Tom Gillie‘s caseload spans whistleblowing, discrimination and human rights matters, while Nathan Roberts successfully acted as sole counsel for the Group Chief Investment Officer of an international business before the Employment Tribunal in an automatic unfair dismissal and whistleblowing claim, resulting in an award of over £1.6m. Recent growth for the set includes Edward Kemp joining the team from Littleton Chambers and Claire Darwin KC and Laura Prince KC being elevated to silk.
London Bar > Elections
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Tom Gillie – Matrix Chambers ‘Tom understands this niche area very well and has innate empathy with the political nature of the disputes. He is able to convey the political sensitivities and motivations in a very clear manner to those not familiar with political campaigns.‘