Radcliffe Chambers is particularly well-versed in professional negligence claims arising from property transactions, the administration of pension funds and financial services transactions. Elizabeth Ovey specialises in pension-related and retail financial services professional negligence cases. Thomas Dumont KC has expertise in cases which intersect tax, property and professional negligence. Peter Dodge is instructed in Abernile Ltd v Solomon Taylor & Shaw, a development site case which raises limitation issues surrounding the date of accrual of cause of action, the date of knowledge and concealment.
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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.
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