Patrick Tomison accepts instructions across all areas of work undertaken in chambers, including employment, commercial and chancery, pensions and trusts, and clinical negligence and personal injury.
Prior to joining chambers, Patrick worked in the Court of Appeal as the judicial assistant to Sir Ernest Ryder, the Senior President of Tribunals. He assisted the Senior President with appeals in a wide range of fields, including employment, clinical negligence, public law, commercial and immigration. He holds a first class degree in Law with German Law from Oxford University (University College).
Patrick acts for both Claimants and Respondents in preliminary and final hearings in all areas of employment and discrimination law, in addition to providing written advice and drafting pleadings. Patrick has experience in appellate matters, including being instructed on appeals in Employment Appeal Tribunal and assisting with appeals in the Court of Appeal.
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Patrick has a developing practice in pensions disputes, both in his own right and through assisting other members of chambers.
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Patrick has recently spent over six months on secondment to the General Counsel’s Division of the Financial Conduct Authority. He has gained experience across the breadth of financial services law, particularly involving the FCA’s information gateways and the interaction with information law.
He also has experience in litigation involving the GDPR and the data protection framework in the UK, and welcomes instructions in this area. He is able to undertake advisory work, drafting pleadings and representation in this field.
Patrick practises in the fields of personal injury and clinical negligence, including drafting pleadings, advisory work, CCMCs, trials and interim applications. He is instructed on both multi track and fast track claims. Patrick enjoys working with numbers, and welcomes instructions to draft Schedules and Counter-Schedules of Loss. Patrick has experience in cross-border personal injury claims, including under the Package Travel Regulations.
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Patrick has experience in professional negligence claims arising out of personal injury claims (including historic abuse claims), having recently been instructed (led by James Counsell QC) in a claim by survivors of sexual abuse in a school against former solicitors for advice to settle at an undervalue.
Patrick is developing a broad commercial practice and has appeared in court in a variety of contractual claims. Patrick’s advisory and drafting work has covered breach of contract, insolvency and restitution claims. He was supervised by David E Grant during pupillage, with whom he was exposed to a broad range of commercial and chancery matters.
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Patrick recently completed a secondment to a leading firm of solicitors in London working with their commercial litigation department. Patrick assisted with two large group actions involving professional negligence and fraud and, in particular, is assisting with the procedural issues arising from the management of large group actions.
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