Gary Oliver
Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7325
Tom accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice.
Prior to coming to Blackstone, Tom studied for a DPhil, specialising in education law, human rights law, and privatisation. Tom retains his interest and accepts instructions in all these areas. Tom acted as rapporteur to the adoption meeting of the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education, and copy-edited the English-language text of the principles.
Tom was a Lecturer in Law at St Peters’ College, Oxford (teaching EU and administrative law).
During his postgraduate studies, Tom co-chaired Oxford Pro Bono Publico, overseeing the production of comparative law reports to assist with human rights litigation around the world, and was Managing Editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Tom accepts instructions in all areas of commercial litigation.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a matter involving environmental law and jurisdiction.
Assisted Fraser Campbell with an arbitration concerning the rights and obligations of members of an LLP and obligations of good faith.
Assisted Fraser Campbell in preparing an urgent application to compel an agent to deliver up documents to their principal.
Assisted Diya Sen Gupta QC with an international team move case in which an investment bank sought to invoke bonus clawback provisions in former employees’ contracts, and alleged inducement of breach of contract against their new employer. The case also raised jurisdictional issues.
Assisted Fraser Campbell with a matter concerning a donation to a national political party, and related issues of unjust enrichment.
Assisted Fraser Campbell on a matter concerning allegations of fraud and breach of contract.
Assisted Fraser Campbell with an unfair prejudice application and related issues of company law.
Assisted Andrew Scott with advice on issues of fraud, misrepresentation and copyright arising from a recording contract.
Assisted Andrew Scott with advice on questions of contract and agency law.
Assisted Andrew Scott. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Andrew Scott with consequential matters following on from a decision of the High Court discussed here.
Assisted Andrew Scott with a case involving breach of contract and quantification of damages.
Assisted Andrew Scott with a case involving breach of director’s duties.
Assisting Andrew Scott with a c.$122 million claim for fraudulent misrepresentation and unlawful means conspiracy, and other Moroccan law claims, arising out of the insolvency of a Moroccan oil and gas company alleged to have been unlawfully expropriated by the Moroccan State.
Tom accepts instructions in all areas of public law. Prior to joining Blackstone, Tom taught administrative law at Lincoln College, Oxford.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a judicial review of the Cabinet Office’s roll-out of voter identification in local elections. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a judicial review concerning the Article 8-compliance of the automatic imposition of notification orders on individuals convicted of sexual offences abroad. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Fraser Campbell with advice on the amenability of the decisions of prosecutors to judicial review.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a matter concerning the limits of a public authority’s power to engage in profit-making activity.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with an EU law and ECHR challenge to the Ivory Act 2018, which prohibited, outside of limited circumstances, the trade in antique ivory. The case involved CITES and EU environmental law, as well as the EU rights to property and to conduct a business. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a matter concerning the legal powers of Ofwat.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a matter concerning the powers of devolved authorities to investigate and scrutinise officeholders.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a potential judicial review concerning animal welfare law, the right to property, and the right to conduct a business under EU law and the ECHR.
Tom accepts instructions in all areas of employment law.
Assisted Diya Sen Gupta QC in proceedings brought by an employer against a former employee and director to enforce restrictive covenants.
Assisted Fraser Campbell with consequential matters arising from the decision of the Court of Appeal on questions of worker status, holiday pay and minimum wage entitlement.
Assisted Fraser Campbell with issues of pensions and EU law. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Diya Sen Gupta QC with an international team move case in which an investment bank sought to invoke bonus clawback provisions in former employees’ contracts, and alleged inducement of breach of contract against their new employer. The case also raised jurisdictional issues.
Assisted Diya Sen Gupta QC with a matter concerning employee competition, confidential information, and fiduciary obligations.
Assisted Diya Sen Gupta QC in providing advice concerning positive action under the Equality Act 2010.
Assisted Diya Sen Gupta QC with issues of jurisdiction and disclosure in the Employment Tribunal. The case is discussed here.
Tom accepts instructions in all areas of human rights law. Prior to coming to Blackstone, Tom studied for a DPhil,
specialising in human rights law.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a judicial review concerning the Article 8-compliance of the automatic imposition of notification orders on individuals convicted of sexual offences abroad. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with an EU law and ECHR challenge to the Ivory Act 2018, which prohibited, outside of limited circumstances, the trade in antique ivory. The case involved CITES and EU environmental law, as well as the EU rights to property and to conduct a business. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a potential judicial review concerning animal welfare law, the right to property, and the right to conduct a business under EU law and the ECHR.
Tom accepts instructions in all areas of civil fraud.
Assisted Fraser Campbell in preparing an urgent application to compel an agent to deliver up documents to their principal.
Assisting Andrew Scott with a c.$122 million claim for fraudulent misrepresentation and unlawful means conspiracy, and other Moroccan law claims, arising out of the insolvency of a Moroccan oil and gas company alleged to have been unlawfully expropriated by the Moroccan State.
Assisted Fraser Campbell on a matter concerning allegations of fraud and breach of contract.
Tom accepts instructions in all areas of EU law. Prior to joining Blackstone, Tom was a Lecturer in EU law at St Peter's College, Oxford.
Assisted Fraser Campbell with issues of pensions and EU law. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with an EU law and ECHR challenge to the Ivory Act 2018, which prohibited, outside of limited circumstances, the trade in antique ivory. The case involved CITES and EU environmental law, as well as the EU rights to property and to conduct a business. The case is discussed here.
Assisted Hanif Mussa with a potential judicial review concerning animal welfare law, the right to property, and the right to conduct a business under EU law and the ECHR.
Prizes
Mooting/Public Speaking
T. Lowenthal, The Role of
Dignity in Human Rights Theory:
Constituent or Teleological? Trinity
College Law Review, (2015)
18 TCLR 56
T. Lowenthal, “Essop
v Home Office:
Proving Indirect Discrimination” (OxHRH
Blog, 6 April 2017)
T. Lowenthal, "Drafting guiding principles on state obligations concerning private schools: Lessons and strategic considerations from a rights perspective", (World Education Blog, 22 January 2018)
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Gary Oliver
Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7325
Derek Sutton
Deputy Senior Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7327
Adam Sloane
Deputy Senior Clerk
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Dean Tolman
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7331
Billy Brian
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7339
Marc Armstrong
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7330
Adam Fuschillo
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 8227329
Danny Compton
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7338
Sophie Floydd
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7324
Rio Sully
Clerk
+44 (0) 207 822 7299