External Conferences
APL Seminar: Forfeiture – problems and solutions
Thursday 29th February 2024
Brewers' Hall, London
Speakers:
Thomas Seymour
Thomas is a highly experienced barrister with a broad chancery and commercial practice. His main practice areas are pensions, trusts/private client, wills and contentious probate, administration of estates and charity law, property, and professional negligence related to those practice areas.
Thomas has a specialist pensions practice based on over 20 years’ experience of acting and advising in pensions matters, including litigation in the High Court, regulatory matters, and Pensions Ombudsman references.
Thomas has an extensive trusts and private client practice, specialising in contentious trust litigation both in the United Kingdom and cases with a foreign element (including recent cases in Gibraltar and the Cayman Islands). His private client practice also embraces wills, contentious probate, estates, and charities.
His property work focuses on real property disputes: enforcing contracts for sale or lease, title and boundaries, restrictive covenants, easements, mortgages, commercial landlord and tenant, and conveyancing.
Thomas acts and advises on partnership and company law matters and has recently advised the Financial Reporting Review Council on International Accounting Standards and compliance issues relating to public companies.
Pensions
Thomas has a wealth of experience in pensions litigation and advisory work.
Litigation
He acts in all types of litigation, including contentious litigation and compromises and Beddoe applications, Pension Ombudsman complaints and appeals, and regulatory matters. These include:
Advisory
He advises scheme employers, targets faced with warning notices under the moral hazard provisions, scheme members on specific issues, and also commonly represents scheme trustees or representative members on Beddoe and other court applications. Subjects on which Thomas commonly advises include those identified above; early retirement provisions; scheme funding; cessation of accrual, winding-up and S.75 debts (in single and multi-employer schemes); preservation and contracting-out and moral hazard provisions. He has also advised HMRC on VAT issues arising under occupational pension schemes. He also advises in relation to personal pension arrangements, including qualified recognised occupational pension schemes.
Notable matters include:
He is so adept at researching and getting to grips with some of the most archaic areas of pension law.
Thomas meticulously ensured that every point was right. He has specialist expertise in pensions law that our clients trusted.
Fantastic researcher and team player. He continues to get better and better.
Fantastically responsive, and astonishingly quick at getting to the bottom of very complex, technical and intricate issues.
A go-to counsel especially for technical points on trust and pensions legislation.
External Conferences
Thursday 29th February 2024
Brewers' Hall, London
Speakers:
Thomas Seymour
Articles
In the second part of this two-part article, Thomas Seymour and Hugh Gittins of Slaughter & May consider some thorny issues and points for practitioners. This article was first published on PensionsBarrister.com Read the full article
By Thomas Seymour
Monday 23 January 2023
Articles
In the first part of this two-part article, Thomas Seymour and Hugh Gittins of Slaughter & May consider section 92 of the Pensions Act 1995 in the light of recent caselaw. This article first appeared on PensionsBarrister.com Click here to... Read more
By Thomas Seymour
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Events / Webinars
Tuesday 20 November 2018 | 6.30pm - 7.30pm followed by drinks and canapes
The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL
1.0 CPD
View moreProfessional liability
Allied and directly complementary to Thomas‘s specialisms in pensions, trust and real property matters, he has substantial experience of acting and advising in professional negligence claims in those fields. Thomas is able to deploy his specialist knowledge of the particular practice area.
Thomas regularly acts and advises in claims arising from errors in the course of administering occupational pension schemes, and has extensive experience both in advising and acting for the trustees and/or employers as claimants and in representing the professional defendants (pensions consultants, actuaries and solicitors).
By way of example, since acting for the successful defendant in the leading case of Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd [2007] EWHC 2009, [2008] EWCA Civ 863, Thomas has acted and advised in a number of other professional negligence claims concerning alleged pensions mis-selling.
Fantastic researcher and team player. He continues to get better and better.
Fantastically responsive, and astonishingly quick at getting to the bottom of very complex, technical and intricate issues.
A go-to counsel especially for technical points on trust and pensions legislation.
He has a wealth of experience. Thomas has a calm manner and judges like him and like listening to him.
Thomas is brilliant at deep research, incredibly responsive and very helpful. He is great to have on the team.
Property
Thomas has been frequently engaged throughout his professional life in advising and litigating in real property disputes, in particular contracts for sale or lease and their enforcement, title and boundaries, restrictive covenants and their modification or discharge, easements (including rights of light), mortgages, commercial landlord and tenant issues, leasehold enfranchisement and general conveyancing issues.
Thomas also has significant experience of more specialist topics: school sites and rights of reverter; open spaces and rights of common; property cases involving charitable or public trusts; and cases having ecclesiastical law aspects. His range and depth of experience makes him well placed to provide swift and reliable advice on points which arise in the course of a property transaction.
Notable cases include:
Fantastic researcher and team player. He continues to get better and better.
Fantastically responsive, and astonishingly quick at getting to the bottom of very complex, technical and intricate issues.
A go-to counsel especially for technical points on trust and pensions legislation.
He has a wealth of experience. Thomas has a calm manner and judges like him and like listening to him.
Thomas is brilliant at deep research, incredibly responsive and very helpful. He is great to have on the team.
Trusts, probate and estates: contentious
Thomas acts and advises in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious trusts, charity, probate and estate matters, including:
Representative matters include:
Fantastic researcher and team player. He continues to get better and better.
Fantastically responsive, and astonishingly quick at getting to the bottom of very complex, technical and intricate issues.
A go-to counsel especially for technical points on trust and pensions legislation.
He has a wealth of experience. Thomas has a calm manner and judges like him and like listening to him.
Thomas is brilliant at deep research, incredibly responsive and very helpful. He is great to have on the team.
Articles
By Thomas Seymour
Friday 13 March 2020
Events / Webinars
Monday 21 January 2019 | 8.45am - 5.40pm followed by drinks and dinner
InterContinental London Park Lane, One Hamilton Place, Park Lane, Mayfair, London W1J 7QY
£299/£360 + VAT | 5.5 CPD
View moreRegistered name: Mr Thomas Oliver Seymour
VAT number: 234890939