Court of ProtectionPublic Law
Before coming to the Bar in 2012, Tom worked with the Citizens Advice Bureau.
As a barrister he has particular expertise with unlawful eviction, capacity issues, and cases raising disability discrimination defences and counterclaims. He deals with a mixture of judicial review and statutory appeals.
Tom Royston specialises in immigration, housing, mental capacity and social security law.
He won a Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year award in 2017, was shortlisted as The Legal 500 Regional Junior of the Year in 2019, and as The Legal 500 Public Law Junior of the Year, and Chambers UK Bar Award Human Rights and Public Law – Junior in 2023. Tom was a Times Lawyer of the Week in 2020, and has been listed for some years in Band 1 of both Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
He has appeared eight times in the UK Supreme Court, and has experience of international litigation in the CJEU and ECSR. Most of his work is in tribunals, the county court and the Administrative Court.
Tom is often instructed in test cases about systemic problems with how the state treats individuals.
MA (Cantab); GDL (Distinction); BPTC (Outstanding)