2 Temple Gardens

Commercial, Employment, Group Litigation, Insurance, Personal Injury, Private International Law, Product Liability, Professional Negligence, Public Law, Travel Law

Tom is a junior barrister with a broad civil/commercial practice. He is often instructed in some of the highest profile and most complex litigation in the country and acts for both Claimants and Defendants. Tom’s cases usually involve private international law and/or group litigation issues.

Tom’s current and recent led work includes acting in the BMW NOx Diesel Emissions Group Litigation/Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation, the Grenfell Tower Litigation, the Odey Litigation, and Limbu and ors v Dyson Technology Ltd and ors.

Tom’s current and recent unled work includes:

• Advising on an application to strike out a group claim with 10,000+ Claimants.
• Acting in a contested registration and enforcement of a Singaporean judgment involving alleged commercial fraud.
• Acting in a claim involving an alleged serious sexual assault in the Middle East.
• Advising in a matter relating to cosmetic surgery performed abroad alleged to have caused cancer.
• Acting in a claim involving a corroded hull that caused a vessel to sink in the EU.

2020-present: Tenant at 2 Temple Gardens. 2019-20: Judicial Assistant at the UK Supreme Court/Privy Council. 2018-19: Pupillage at 2 Temple Gardens. 2015-18: Doctorate, University of Cambridge (examined by Lord Reed). 2015: Called to the Bar.

COMBAR, PIBA, PEOPIL

Publications:

Expert contributor to Palmer, Moody, Crowley and van der Meer (eds) The Law of Property Damage (Bloomsbury 2023).

Articles/chapters in various journals and edited collections including the Cambridge Law Journal and Judicial Review.