12 King's Bench Walk

Thomas appears regularly in fast and multi-track matters, has experience of acting in substantial High Court litigation as junior counsel and has appeared in the High Court in his own right on interlocutory matters. He has an extensive paperwork practice and is happy to advise on a CFA. Particular expertise includes road traffic accidents, employers’ liability of all kinds, sports injuries and cases in which medical causation is disputed. Frequent involvement with road traffic cases has enabled Thomas to develop a specialist credit hire practice. He acts mainly for defendants and has wide experience of drafting statements of case, with particular knowledge of those involving the cancellation of contracts made in a consumer’s home or place of work etc. Regulations 2008. Trial work is frequent and has been conducted on all tracks; Thomas has appeared in claims with values in excess of £50,000. He is available to provide in-house training and updates on the law to those instructing. Thomas has wide experience of defending claims involving dishonesty. These include low-velocity impacts, staged accidents and deliberately induced accidents (especially ‘slam-on’ cases). Thomas is available to attend fraud conferences out of chambers at the convenience of the client. He deals with all paperwork aspects and is able to draft specialist pleadings at short notice. He has particular experience of cases featuring surveillance evidence. Thomas has a burgeoning employment practice and has a particular interest in discrimination and unfair dismissal cases. He has experience of conducting multi-day tribunal matters. Interesting cases: Harvey v Plymouth City Council, High Court, October 2009 – junior counsel in this novel case relating to occupiers’ liability.

Called 2008.

PIBA; ELBA.

Sorbonne (Certificate superieur de doit francais; BA (Oxon).