Tom Leeper
Call 1991
Qualifications B.A. (Dunelm)
Professional Memberships Coroner’s Society, AVMA, Personal Injury Bar Association, Bristol Medico-Legal Society
Appointments Junior Counsel to the Crown – Attorney General’s Civil List, Assistant Deputy Coroner for Warwickshire, Standing Counsel to Ministry of Defence Police for their Professional Standards Department, DPP Specialist Counsel for advising CPS on Death in Custody Cases
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Areas of Practice
Personal Injury
Tom acts for both Claimant and Defendant in a wide-range of claims under Fatal Accidents Act 1976 and Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934, and personal injury claims. Tom has worked extensively for both the Ministry of Defence (arising out of claims by service personnel) and the Home Office (arising out of deaths in custody, assault, false imprisonment and misfeasance in the public office by Immigration Officers and Prison Officers).
Notable cases
Fatal Accident Claims
- Dhaliwal v. Highways Agency: fatal accident on the M1-A1 Link Road
- Williams v. Highways Agency: fatal accident on the M56
- Allcock v Sorensen: RTA fatality
- Sellwood v. Robinson: RTA fatality
- Whitelaw and others v CC: multiple fatalities arising out of outbreak of legionnaires disease
- C. v Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board: fatality resulting from post partum internal haemorrage
- Baker v Home Office: death in custody
- D-S v. Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust: Death resulting from mismanagement of hydrocephalus and VP shunts
Personal Injury claims in excess of £500,000
- McNally v MOD: severe brain injury
- Plumridge v MOD: postconcussional syndrome after a significant head injury
- Hall v MOD: head injuries – led by Gerard McDermott QC
- Webster v MOD: head injuries sustained by serviceman
- Barran v MOD: head injuries sustained by serviceman
- Smith v Home Office: injuries sustained by prisoner
- Bath v MOD: harassment/bullying in Royal Logistics Corps Cyprus
- McCalla v MOD: cold non freezing injury
- Humble v MOD: cold non freezing injury
- Riddle v MOD: cold non freezing injury
- Chambers v MOD: orthopaedic and sight injuries
Tom is also a member of the Clinical Negligence and Regulatory Enforcement and Crime Practice Groups.
Seminars
- On Clinical negligence for the Treasury Solicitor’s Spring Training Seminars.
- Instructed by Department of Transport to advise Highways Agency Board in connection with procedures for accident investigation and providing assistance to Coroners.
