Trinity Chambers

Thomas is a member of Chambers’ Civil team, with a busy practice focused on Business and Property, Chancery, Employment and Housing work.
Business & Property
Thomas has experience in a wide range of commercial and chancery work, acting, advising and drafting in the following cases:

• Breach of contract
• Commercial landlord and tenant
• Dilapidations
• Construction
• Mortgage possession
• Brokerage and energy
• Employee restrictive covenants
• Trusts of land (ToLATA)
• Proprietary estoppel
• Contested probate
• Inheritance Act
• Variation of charitable trusts
• Trespass/nuisance

Thomas has also acted and advised in a range of insolvency proceedings for petitioning creditors and debtors. He is currently being led by Simon Goldberg KC.
Employment
Thomas frequently appears in multi-day tribunal hearings for Claimants and Respondents and is happy to draft for and advise clients. He has acted nationwide in claims involving a wide range of employment law issues, including:

• Unfair dismissal
• Discrimination
• Victimisation
• TUPE
• Respondent insolvency
• Equal pay

Thomas is currently being led by Richard Stubbs in a multi-day employment law case for the Government Legal Department.
Housing & Local Authority
Thomas has appeared successfully for and advised local authorities in housing disrepair claims.

He also has experience acting for landlords and tenants in domestic possession proceedings concerning:

• Antisocial behaviour
• Equality Act defences
• Occupation status
• Breach of domestic use clauses

Thomas is particularly interested in cases where his business and property practice overlaps with housing law, such as leases versus licenses and the interpretation of leasehold covenants.

He has also acted for local authorities in closure order, anti-social behaviour injunctions, contempt of court and school non-attendance proceedings.
Personal Injury
Thomas has experience at the intersection of personal injury and commercial and chancery work, including retrieval of assets against impecunious defendants and corporate versus personal capacity issues concerning tortfeasors. He has also acted in a broader range of personal injury matters including fundamental dishonesty.
EDUCATION

• Bar Course, Inns of Court College of Advocacy - Merit
• Graduate Diploma in Law, City Law School - Distinction
• PhD in Classics, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
• MPhil in Medieval History, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
• MA (Cantab) in History, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge - First with Distinction (starred first)

SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS

• Bar Course Scholarship, Inner Temple
• City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence
• Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership

MEMBERSHIPS

• Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

OTHER INFORMATION
Thomas is a keen sailor and hillwalker, and a somewhat more reluctant runner. He has written several articles and reviews on aspects of late Roman and early medieval history and reads in several languages, Ancient and modern.