3 Hare Court

Thomas Roe QC has a vigorous and wide-ranging practice encompassing commercial and chancery commercial litigation, arbitration, civil fraud, insolvency, property law, constitutional and administrative law, and public international law. He does a great deal of appellate work.

Tom appears regularly in the High Court—where he is a highly experienced trial lawyer—and in the Court of Appeal. He has appeared several times before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and dozens of times before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He has also appeared often before courts overseas, including the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas, and the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean. Cases he has argued have been reported in (among others) the Law Reports, the Weekly Law Reports, Lloyd’s Law Reports, Butterworths Company Law Cases, the Wills and Trusts Law Reports, the International Trusts and Estates Law Reports, the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports, the Industrial Relations Law Reports, the Environmental Law Reports, and the Law Reports of the Commonwealth.

Much of Tom’s work is international. Regular clients have included, in addition to many businesses and individuals in England & Wales and overseas, the British Government and several overseas governments.

Tom is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Called 1995; QC 2014; junior counsel to the Crown 2011-14; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 2011. Publications include ‘Settlement of Investment Disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty’ (Cambridge University Press, 2011); chapter in ‘International Investment Law: The Sources of Rights and Obligations’ (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012); and articles in Modern Law Review and Cambridge Law Journal.

Reasonable French and German, some Italian and Spanish

Downing College, Cambridge (1994 MA English Literature and Law).