Oriel Chambers

Civil, Family

Tom specialises primarily in Divorce & Financial Remedy. His financial work includes trusts of land applications. He also has a busy practice in Children & Domestic Abuse.

Over the last 12 months in particular, Tom has developed working relationships with solicitors across a range of well-regarded North West Teams. His practice continues to grow by word of mouth.

Tom’s approach is to offer grounded and pragmatic advice with an eye to overall case strategy. In the event that court appearances are required, he presents a confident and well-prepared advocate. He is an effective negotiator and has a good eye for detail.

Tom delivers lectures annually at the extremely well-regarded Oriel Chambers Family Law Seminar Day (Chester and Preston). He is a repeat invitee to lecture at the Liverpool Law Society Private Child Conference (2022 and 2023), and last year also lectured at the Society’s Family Finance Conference (2023).

He also offers bespoke in-house training to solicitors across the North West upon request, in the last 12 months having delivered such training upon (inter alia) TLATA (a beginner’s guide), costs in the civil jurisdiction for family practitioners, case law updates, maintenance pending suit, legal services payment orders and section 37 applications.

Tom was the driving force behind the establishment of the Oriel Chambers Mooting Competition, which is an inter-varsity university level mooting competition. Undergraduate competitors are drawn from the University of Liverpool, John Moores University, Hope University and Edge Hill University and the competition is judged exclusively by Oriel Chambers barristers. Tom set up the competition in 2020 and acted as master of moots in 2021 and 2022. He stepped back in 2023 due to the birth of his daughter (taking 2 months of parental leave April – June 2023). The competition continues to run with great success annually.

University of Liverpool (LLB; LLM); University of Nottingham (BPTC)

PIBA; Northern Circuit; FLBA; Inner Temple