Costs

Tom achieved a 2.1 in his economics/business management degree from Manchester University and a commendation on the LPC.  He was admitted as a Chartered Legal Executive in August 2018, a Solicitor in February 2020 and a Solicitor Advocate in March 2023.

Tom is a Senior Associate and Solicitor Advocate, specialising in costs disputes since 2012.

Tom regularly prepares skeleton arguments and advocates in the High Court of Justice and Senior Courts Costs Office.  He has a substantial amount of experience in appeals and other reported decisions, developing the law on several key issues such as costs management, switches in litigation funding, the provisional assessment procedure, offers of settlement, fixed costs, qualified one way costs shifting (also referred to commonly as QOCS), payments on account of costs, non-party costs orders against solicitors and contracts between solicitors and clients.