Chambers News
Team 4KBW will be running in the Reading half marathon on 1st April 2012.
We are running for a charity called Launchpad Reading, which provides supported housing to disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Reading. We appreciate that you may get many requests to dig deep but we’d be delighted if you’d support us and our chosen charity.
January 2012
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Patrick McMorrow and Isaac Maka have joined chambers.
December 2011
New Tenants: Chambers is delighted that Farah Amin, Peter Collins and Michaella Jacobs have joined chambers.
October 2011
Building on their work in this specialist area Michael Salter of Ely Place, and Chris Bryden of 4KBW this week gave evidence to a Parliamentary Group Inquiry into potential amendments to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997(Click here for more info.
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Lee Harris has joined chambers.
June 2011
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Gwynn Price Rowlands has joined chambers.
Thomas Bailey
Areas of Practice
Tom practices exclusively in civil law and specialises in two main areas, Civil, Commercial Law and Family Law. He regularly appears in the County Courts, the High Court and Employment Tribunals and also has experience of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.
Civil and Commercial
Tom conducts fast-track and multi-track trials across the spectrum of civil and commercial work, (as well as all types of interlocutory hearings). He has particular experience in Breach of Contact, Landlord and Tenant, Mortgages, Consumer Credit and Costs. Tom is instructed to draft all types of pleadings and to advise on an informal and formal basis and has a busy paperwork practice.
Tom regularly acts in individual and corporate insolvency matters, both in an advisory capacity and in litigation. Similarly he also represents individuals, companies and local authorities in the full range of employment law related cases.
Family
Tom accepts instructions across the range of family law matters. He has a busy practice in financial matters including ancillary relief, Schedule 1 applications, cohabitation disputes and TOLATA 1996 applications. Tom is often instructed in cases involving complex company assets, overseas assets and trusts.
Education & Qualifications
2005 Called to the Bar – Middle Temple (Awarded Blackstone Scholarship)
2004 – 2005 BVC BBP School of Law, London
2001 – 2004 LLB (Hons) (Lond), Queen Mary College, University of London.
Professional Memberships
London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
Family Law Bar Association
Bar Pro Bono Unit and Speakers for Schools Programme
Publications
Stemming the Rising Tide – New Law Journal, 13 February 2009: Examining the effectiveness of the (then) new Mortgage Possession Pre-Action Protocol
Tom has also provided a number of seminars to instructing solicitors on a variety of subjects including cohabitation disputes, discrimination and costs. He is happy to deliver bespoke seminars (with CPD) and should be contacted via his Clerks to discuss this further.
Interests
Italy and Italian food
Ipswich Town FC
Theatre and the Arts (having worked in theatre in a previous life)
The Countryside
