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Thomas Dumont KC
Position
Tom Dumont’s practice falls into the following areas: trusts and estates, property, charities and professional negligence litigation. Tom Dumont is rated a ‘confident, forthright and extremely able advocate with a sound, practical approach to complex problems’ by ‘Chambers Guide UK’ for traditional Chancery work. He advises beneficiaries and trustees, ranging from large trust corporations at home and abroad, to family trustees and executors. He advises and lectures (including numerous STEP lectures) on the use of trusts and wills in tax and estate planning. He acts in Probate and Inheritance Act disputes, particularly on behalf of charities, aiming to resolve at the outset those cases which ought not to be fought, but to pursue vigorously those which should be. His charity practice is recommended in ‘Chambers Guide UK’ as ‘really excellent’. ‘The Lawyer’ has recommended Tom Dumont as ‘first choice when the opposition are unscrupulous’. He has also been instructed in professional negligence cases by most of the well-known firms who act for solicitors and accountants, as well as by insurers direct. His particular expertise lies in claims involving tax and property, as well as fraud (he was one of a handful of barristers on the SIF fraud panel). Tom has been selected by ‘Citywealth’ as one of the ‘Prominent Barristers – Trusts’ in its Leaders List 2016 and was the most recent STEP Advocate of the Year.
Career
Called 1979; Gray’s Inn; former lecturer in trusts and tax.
Memberships
Professional Negligence Bar Association; Charity Law Association; STEP; ACTAPS.
Education
St Paul’s School; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA Hons); FZSL.
Leisure
Watching rugby, playing cricket.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Thomas Dumont KC – Radcliffe Chambers ‘Thomas has incisive analysis, imbues confidence in his advice and has a supportive approach. He gets to the nub of the issue – prepares excellent and to-the-point skeletons and other written advice. He is a general go-to person for complex trust issues.’
London Bar > Charities
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Radcliffe Chambers is ‘a strong set with strength in depth‘ in the charity law space. The ‘cogent‘ Robert Pearce KC acts for trustees from a wide range of charitable entities, including educational and religious institutions, and Kate Selway KC has expertise in advising on charitable status, charity land and governance and the validity of charitable bequests. Thomas Dumont KC‘s client base takes in national, local and international charities. Among the junior end, Francesca Quint is ‘an outstanding specialist adviser in charity law‘, and Joshua Winfield is also singled out by clients for his ‘deep technical knowledge of charity law‘.