Matrix Chambers

Tom’s practice spans across a variety of areas including equality and human rights, employment, public and constitutional, education and commercial law. He is one of only a handful of barristers in the UK to specialise in political and electoral law as seen in his recent defence of the Labour Party in the High Court in claims concerning the Rt. Hon. Sir Keir Starmer MP and other Members of Parliament.

He has extensive experience acting for both Claimants and Defendants and has received instruction from high profile organisations in cases of public importance. Tom has acted as sole counsel in both the senior courts and tribunals.

He is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s panel of junior counsel and is ranked in Chambers and Partners.

Called: 2013

Industrial Law Society ELA PIBA Franco-British Lawyers Society HOME: The Tenants Foundation (Chair) Bar Human Rights Committee

Bar On Straight Civil Partnerships is Lawful Settling Injury to Feelings: A Taxing Time Race Discrimination and Housing in Post Brexit Britain Housing, Race and the Right to Rent post Brexit Can Judicial Assessment help Claimants and Respondents in the Employment Tribunal? Bakers lose ‘Gay Cake’ case ‘2017: the year of the discount rate: a claimant’s perspective’ (co-author with Martyn McLeish), Journal of Personal Injury Law, (2017) No.2 Pages 109-117 A guide to using statistics in equality and employment litigation