Devereux

Tom welcomes instructions in all of Chambers’ core practice areas, with specialisms in personal injury, employment and consumer credit work. Tom appears regularly in courts and tribunals and has a thriving advisory practice.

Tom has appeared in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal (led by other counsel), and in the High Court (as sole counsel). Key cases include:

• Griffiths v TUI [2023] UKSC 48, [2023] 3 WLR 1204 on fairness and the duty to cross-examine (led by Robert Weir KC and Stephen Cottrell);
• Miller v Irwin Mitchell LLP [2024] EWCA Civ 53, [2024] 4 WLR 27 on the duties owed by a firm’s legal advice helpline to a personal injury claimant (led by Robert Weir KC);
• Patricot v Adrian Lee & Partners [2023] EWHC 2493 (Ch), an application for an expedited trial of a former employee’s claim regarding the enforceability of a non-compete clause.

Tom was previously a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. He spent four years after qualification as an associate in the employment, pensions and employee benefits team.

In 2019-20, Tom was the judicial assistant to Lord Wilson and Lord Burrows at the Supreme Court.

Tom prides himself on his persuasive advocacy, clear drafting style, exceptional diligence and ability to research complex points of law in service of his clients.

APIL, ELA, ELBA, PIBA, COMBAR,

BA Classics: Brasenose College, Oxford – Double First

GDL: BPP Law School, London – Distinction

LPC: BPP Law School, London – Distinction

BCL: St Cross College, Oxford – Distinction