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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 > Elections
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Tom Gillie – Matrix Chambers ‘Tom is exceptional. He has an incredible ability to cut to the heart of even the most complex of cases. His technical ability is second to none.’
At Matrix Chambers, the ‘very incisive‘ Helen Mountfield KC is well-versed in assisting returning officers, the Electoral Commission, individual candidates and political parties with a range of election law issues, and is singled out for her extensive experience in handling election petitions. Gavin Millar KC and the ‘tough cross-examiner‘ Tom Gillie successfully represented the Labour Party in Cooper v Evans, where an injunction application was brought by the Conservative Party candidate against a Labour online campaign advert during the Tamworth by-election – the Conservative candidate claimed that the advert was in breach of s.106(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 as it included a false statement of fact in relation to his personal character and conduct. Sarah Sackman was elected as Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green in the 2024 general election.
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Tom Gillie – Matrix Chambers ‘Tom is an excellent advocate. He has a clear, punchy style, is never fazed and can deliver hard advice with grace. He has the ear of the court. A silk in the making.’