Deka Chambers

Crime, Human Rights, Police Law

Thom is an experienced barrister whose practice encompasses serious and complex crime, human rights, prison law, and police law. He prides himself on combining expert legal knowledge with exceptional standards of oral and written advocacy and has an established track record of securing successful outcomes for his clients.

Thom is regularly instructed in sensitive and high-profile matters, with a particular focus on cases in which civil and criminal law overlap, or which involve multiple jurisdictions. He is currently instructed as part of Operation Northleigh, the criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Thom writes on various issues of legal interest and has been published in The Times, The Guardian, Private Eye, New Statesman and Prospect, as well as in specialist law journals like Judicial Review, Public Law, Administrative Court Digest, and Solicitors Journal, and has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about legal issues.

Recent cases include the successful prosecution of a neo-Nazi extremist who targeted prominent politicians with a campaign of virulently racist, anti-Semitic, and violent abuse, representing the police in misconduct proceedings against a former officer who preyed on vulnerable women, and acting for counter terror police in care proceedings in the Family Division relating to the daughter of a suspected terrorist who travelled to Syria to join ISIS.

Thom is a registered pupil supervisor and volunteers his time as an advocacy trainer for Inner Temple, where he is a Governing Bencher. He’s a member of the advisory board of APPEAL, and in his (limited) spare time, enjoys tackling The Times crossword, and running.

Criminal Bar Association Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association South Eastern Circuit Associate Member of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians International Criminal Court Bar Association Association of Defence Counsel practicing before the International Courts and Tribunals (ADC-ICT) Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences LLM Professional Legal Practice BVC (Very Competent), BPP Law School Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), College of Law MSc Political Theory, London School of Economics (Merit) BA Hons History & Philosophy (First Class) University of Sheffield