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About
Provided by Tom Fairclough
Practice Areas
Tom is a junior barrister with particular expertise in Product Liability, Professional Negligence, Personal Injury, Property Damage, and Commercial Litigation, usually where conflicts of laws and/or group litigation issues arise.
Tom is frequently instructed in the most high profile and complex litigation in his practice areas and acts for both Claimants and Defendants.
Tom’s current led work includes acting in the BMW NOx Diesel Emissions Group Litigation/Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation, the Grenfell Tower Litigation, the Odey Litigation, and Limbu and ors v Dyson Technology Ltd and ors.
Tom’s recent unled work includes acting in a contested registration and enforcement of a Singaporean judgment, acting in a claim involving an alleged serious sexual assault in the Middle East, advising in a matter relating to cosmetic surgery performed abroad alleged to have caused cancer, and acting in a claim involving a corroded hull that caused a vessel to sink in the EU.
Career
2020-present: Tenant at 2 Temple Gardens.
2019-20: Judicial Assistant at the UK Supreme Court/Privy Council.
2018-19: Pupillage at 2 Temple Gardens.
2015-18: Doctorate, Cambridge University (examined by Lord Reed).
2015: Called to the Bar.
Professional Memberships
COMBAR, PIBA, PEOPIL
Publications
Expert contributor to Palmer, Moody, Crowley and van der Meer (eds) The Law of Property Damage (Bloomsbury 2023).
Articles/chapters in various journals and edited collections including the Cambridge Law Journal and Judicial Review.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Tom Fairclough is a highly regarded junior in product liability claims who regularly acts as sole counsel for his clients. He often features in complex high-profile matters and has experience representing both claimants and defendants.
Tom Fairclough has a strong practice handling claims arising from RTAs abroad. He has experience acting for defendant insurers as well as claimants, and is particularly strong handling post-Brexit issues of jurisdiction and retained law.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Tom is an excellent junior. He is incredibly bright, has amazing judgement and works far beyond his call."
"Tom is an excellent technician. He's a real name for the future."
"Tom is immensely hard-working and collegiate. His legal insight and strategic input go far beyond his years of call."
"Tom has real gravitas and intellectual confidence."
"Tom is an excellent junior. He is incredibly bright, has amazing judgement and works far beyond his call."
"Tom is an excellent technician. He's a real name for the future."
"Tom is immensely hard-working and collegiate. His legal insight and strategic input go far beyond his years of call."
"Tom has real gravitas and intellectual confidence."
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