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Thomas Roe KC
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Thomas Roe QC has a vigorous and wide-ranging practice encompassing commercial and chancery commercial litigation, arbitration, civil fraud, insolvency, property law, constitutional and administrative law, and public international law. He does a great deal of appellate work.
Tom appears regularly in the High Court—where he is a highly experienced trial lawyer—and in the Court of Appeal. He has appeared several times before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and dozens of times before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He has also appeared often before courts overseas, including the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas, and the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean. Cases he has argued have been reported in (among others) the Law Reports, the Weekly Law Reports, Lloyd’s Law Reports, Butterworths Company Law Cases, the Wills and Trusts Law Reports, the International Trusts and Estates Law Reports, the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports, the Industrial Relations Law Reports, the Environmental Law Reports, and the Law Reports of the Commonwealth.
Much of Tom’s work is international. Regular clients have included, in addition to many businesses and individuals in England & Wales and overseas, the British Government and several overseas governments.
Tom is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Career
Called 1995; QC 2014; junior counsel to the Crown 2011-14; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 2011. Publications include ‘Settlement of Investment Disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty’ (Cambridge University Press, 2011); chapter in ‘International Investment Law: The Sources of Rights and Obligations’ (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012); and articles in Modern Law Review and Cambridge Law Journal.
Languages
Reasonable French and German, some Italian and Spanish
Memberships
- Commonwealth in England Bar Association (Chairman)
- British-German Jurists’ Association
- Register of Advocates of the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
- London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
Education
Downing College, Cambridge (1994 MA English Literature and Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Members of 3 Hare Court undertake a broad range of public and constitutional law work in a significant number of non-UK common law jurisdictions, particularly throughout the Caribbean and Gibraltar. Noted for its ‘strength in depth’, the set is known in the offshore market for its involvement in a diverse range of Privy Council cases. One such example saw Thomas Roe KC involved in Chandler v The State, concerning the lawfulness of the mandatory death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago. Rowan Pennington-Benton is known for his Chancery, insurance and insolvency matters in Gibraltar but also receives instructions in the BVI and Cayman Islands, among others.