Tom Barrington

Barrister

Call: 2025

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Overview

Tom practices across Chambers’ core areas of expertise, including  commercial, company, statutory employment, business protection and sporting disputes. He is comfortable acting as sole counsel or working as part of a wider counsel team.

Before coming to the Bar, Tom represented members of the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union in employment disputes, assisted Professor Meg Russell and Dr Oliver Garner in their research on constitutional law and politics and taught debating in prisons with the charity Vocalise. As an undergraduate, he finished among the top performers in his faculty’s graduating cohort. He then received major scholarships from Gray’s Inn and the City Law School to study the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Course.

Expertise

Commercial Litigation & Civil Fraud

Tom is developing a broad commercial practice. He has particular interest in civil fraud and matters involving jurisdictional issues. Tom’s experience, which involves High Court, BVI and AIFC proceedings, includes:

  • Appearing as sole counsel in County Court proceedings concerning a commercial debt of over £250,000.
  • Assisting Charlotte Davies in a nine day High Court trial concerning alleged fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of contract.
  • Assisting Rupert D’Cruz KC in a five day AIFC hearing of various jurisdictional applications and an application for a freezing injunction.
  • Assisting Adam Solomon KC in a contested application in BVI proceedings.
  • Assisting David Reade KC and Alexander Halban in a successful contempt application.
  • Assisting members of Chambers in multiple High Court hearings concerning challenges to the Court’s jurisdiction.
  • Assisting members of Chambers in multiple High Court hearings concerning the enforcement of overseas judgments and arbitral awards.
  • Drafting Amended Particulars for a substantial High Court breach of contract and debt claim.
Statutory Employment

Tom has experience across a range of statuory employment law claims, including discrimination, victimisation, whistleblowing, harassment, unlawful deductions from wages, equal pay, unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal.

Tom’s experience includes:

  • Assisting Rajiv Bhatt in Employment Appeal Tribunal proceedings concerning disability discrimination.
  • Assisting Kieran Wilson in Employment Appeal Tribunal proceedings concerning alleged bias on the part of the First Instance Tribunal.
  • Assisting members of Chambers in two separate protected belief discrimination cases concerning the borderline between antizionism and antisemitism.
  • Assisting James Green in a hearing concerning the Employment Tribunal’s territorial jurisdiction.
  • Amending Employment Tribunal Grounds of Resistance on a claim brought under the Fixed Term Employees Regulations.
  • Drafting Employment Tribunal Grounds of Claim and Grounds of Resistance concerning all of the common heads of claim listed in the introductory paragraph above.
  • Drafting applications and responses to applications for strike out, deposit orders, and amendments.
  • Drafting Schedules of Loss and Counter Schedules of Loss.
High Court Employment & Business Protection

Tom has worked on several “team move” cases. He has experience of cases involving alleged breaches of restrictive covenants (including non-compete, non-solicitation, non-poaching, non-dealing and confidentiality restrictions), outside interest clauses and fiduciary duties, as well as alleged unlawful means conspiracies and inducements to breach. He has assisted more senior members of Chambers in bringing or resisting applications for injunctions in such cases.

Sport

Tom has a keen interest in sports law. He has worked on contractual, employment and regulatory disputes in courts, tribunals and arbitrations across boxing, motorsports, football, athletics and more. Specifically, Tom’s experience includes selection appeals, safeguarding cases, disciplinary hearings, disputes relating to agency agreements and FA Rule K arbitrations.

Outside of work, Tom is an avid sports fan. He plays football and rugby and follows a variety of other sports. As a result, Tom understands sport’s unique nature and the impact it can have on cases.

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