Thomas Seymour
Called 1975
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Thomas Seymour was called to the Bar in 1975 having obtained a Double First in Law at Cambridge, where he was awarded a Squire Law Scholarship and the George Long Prize for Jurisprudence. He has practised at the Chancery Bar since 1976 and qualified as a mediator in 2003.
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Practice
Thomas’s practice encompasses the range of subjects comprising modern chancery work including litigation and advice on real property matters (including commercial landlord and tenant), trusts, company law, receivership and corporate insolvency, professional negligence, partnership, contentious probate and administration of estates and matters relating to the Society of Lloyd’s. He has a specialist practice in pensions and regularly advises and acts for the trustees or employers of occupational pension schemes.
Notable Cases
Occupational pension schemes - Pensions cases include:
Davidson v Arla Foods UK Plc & Trustees of Express Pension Scheme [2006] EWHC 1234 (whether a member's benefit as augmented by contract on termination of employment carries right to revaluation of the augmented benefit); Akester & Ors v Kingston Communications plc & Ors [2005] PLR 153 (construction of early retirement provisions after the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Agco).
Wilson v Law Debenture Trust Corporation Plc (application of re Londonderry’s Settlement to pension scheme trusts); Denny v Yeldon (independent trustee regulations): re Scientific Investment Plan (application of private trust principles to scheme forfeiture provisions); Royal Masonic Hospital v Pensions Ombudsman (preservation rights inapplicable to unfunded pension schemes);
Real property - Official Custodian for Charities v Parway Estates Developments Ltd (scope for relief against forfeiture on tenant’s liquidation); Firstpost Homes Ltd v Johnson (S.2 Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989): applications relating to the Dulwich Estate Scheme of Management (leasehold valuation tribunal and Lands Tribunal): re Snaith & Dolding’s Application (modification of restrictive covenant).
Company law - re Soundcraft Magnetics Ltd (petition under S.459 Companies Act 1985), re The Working Project Ltd (directors’ disqualification).
Construction of rules - Goring v British Actors Equity Association
Society of Lloyd’s - Society of Lloyd’s v Morris (whether proceeds of personal stop loss policies caught by Lloyd’s Premiums Trust Deed); Cox v Bankside Agencies Ltd (whether proceeds of errors & omissions policies distributable rateably to litigating Lloyd’s Names).
Memberships
He is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, the Property Law Bar Association and the Association of Pension Lawyers.
Publications
Text of seminar address to Association of Pension Lawyers on group estoppel in occupational pension schemes (2004) published in Pension Lawyer Issue 101 (November 2004).
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