Thomas Leeper
Called to bar 1991
Clerk Graham Woods Tel: 020 7353 6381
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Tom Leeper was appointed as junior counsel to the Crown (Attorney General’s Civil List) in January 2001, and reappointed in November 2007. Other appointments include DPP specialist counsel for advising the CPS on death in custody cases (April 2004), and standing counsel to the Ministry of Defence Police for their Professional Standards Department (December 2006). He sits as an assistant deputy coroner for Warwickshire.
He does extensive personal injury and clinical negligence work for both the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office concerning healthcare issues arising out of treatment of service personnel and prisoners, deaths in custody, assault, false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office. In 2007 he was the speaker on clinical negligence for the Treasury Solicitor’s spring training seminars.
He has acted for both the prosecution and defence in a wide-range of claims arising out of fatalities in the workplace, at sea, in care homes, on railways, on construction sites, and caused by legionnaires disease. He was junior counsel for the prosecution in the Ladbroke Grove, Southall and Potters Bar railway cases. He was recently instructed by the Attorney General to appear as friend to the court/amicus curiae in R v Tinker, Todd and Smith a manslaughter by gross negligence arising out of an expedition to Mt Everest. He does advisory work for the Department of Transport and the Highways Agency in connection with procedures for accident investigation.
Coroner’s court work includes inquests engaging “right to life” principles under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He is instructed by the Home Office (death in custody cases), the MOD (Soldiers – Iraq), and by both families and Healthcare Trusts (deaths in hospitals).
Areas of practice
Clinical Negligence & Healthcare, Fraud & Extradition, Personal Injury, Discipline & Regulatory
What the directories say
Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2008, under the Health and Safety Section “possesses a phenomenal ability to grasp detail, absorbing information from thousands of documents at a time.”
