Tom Roscoe

Practice Overview

Tom joined Chambers in September 2011, upon the successful completion of his 12 month pupillage. His pupil supervisors were Rupert Reed, Martin Hutchings QC, Julian Greenhill, Jonathan Evans and Edward Sawyer. Tom experienced a wide range of Chambers' work during pupillage, including general commercial disputes, professional negligence, contractual disputes, pensions, real property and landlord and tenant. He is now keen to develop a broad commercial chancery practice incorporating Chambers' main areas of work.

Highlights of Tom's pupillage year included assisting and shadowing members of Chambers during:

• A two week professional negligence trial in a claim against a firm of solicitors for allegedly negligent settlement advice (Langsam v Beachcroft LLP [2011] EWHC 1451 (Ch));
  
  
• A week-long commercial arbitration about whether an English law agreement guaranteed obligations relating to the lease of a commercial property in Russia;
  
  
• The two-day Court of Appeal hearing of the appeal against the first instance decision in Daventry v Daventry [2010] EWHC 1935 (Ch), a case concerning both common and unilateral mistake rectification;
  
  
• The two-day Supreme Court hearing of the appeal of the Court of Appeal decision in Bridge Trustees v Yates [2010] EWCA Civ 179, on the question of the defining characteristics of "money purchase benefits".

Qualifications

Tom was a scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford and graduated in 2008 with a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, before converting to law the following year at the City Law School. He completed the Bar Vocational Course in 2010, also at City, and was graded "Outstanding". He was awarded a "Major Scholarship" by Inner Temple for both his GDL and BVC years.

Memberships

• Chancery Bar Association
• Commercial Bar Association