Pump Court Chambers

Tom Wilkins has over 20 years experience dealing with criminal and motoring matters. He has developed a growing niche in Court Martial work and is happy to take instructions both here and overseas to represent service personnel.

He is a pupil supervisor and this year was involved as an advocacy trainer for Circuit in respect of vulnerable witnesses.

Criminal
Tom both prosecutes and defends the whole spectrum of criminal cases across the Circuit.

He has previously defended and prosecuted serving Police officers, as well as other professionals e.g. medical doctors.

He is accredited as a Grade 4 prosecutor for London, the Western and South Eastern Circuits. He is also instructed by the RASSO unit to prosecute sex offence cases within these circuits.

Courts Martial
He has developed a growing niche in Court Martial work and is happy to take instructions both here and overseas to represent service personnel.

Road Traffic Offences
Tom extensive experience dealing with motoring matters at all levels, in cases ranging from drink driving to fatalities.

He has appeared in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal on numerous occasions in relation to causing death by dangerous driving.

Those cases have often involved complex expert evidence relating to drink, drugs, speed or roadworthiness and sometimes very technical defences.

His professional clients include a doctor successfully acquitted of being drunk in charge of a motorcycle and a Police officer, also in relation to drink driving (where the main concern was the loss of pension).

He has experience of tachographs and the evidence obtained from them.

Formerly practicing in London, he was instructed by the CPS there to prosecute fatal road traffic incidents e.g. an HGV driver killing a pedestrian.

He now brings that experience to bear in his defence practice and is currently instructed as leading counsel to defend a Royal Engineer in respect of gross negligence manslaughter in Camp Bastion involving a Caterpillar 938 wheel loader. The case raises health and safety issues relating to the MOD’s system of work and where responsibility lies within a team.

Call 1993

University of Westminster (1992) BSc (Hons), University of Bristol (1987-1990)