Jackson v Serious Fraud Office 2025
Appeared for the Respondent at a nine-day final hearing regarding allegations of whistleblowing detriment.
Tom Perry is an employment specialist who regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. Tom has extensive experience in all aspects of employment litigation, including interim relief hearings, preliminary hearings, full merits hearings, remedy hearings and appeals up to and including the Court of Appeal.
Tom is ranked as a leading junior in employment law by the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
Tom regularly conducts complex and high-profile multi-day discrimination and whistleblowing cases.
Tom has a busy public sector practice and regularly acts for NHS employers, local authorities, and government departments.
Tom also works with a wide variety of private sector employers, including in the hospitality, retail, manufacturing, and charity sectors.
Tom has been appointed to investigate grievance and disciplinary matters, including in the education, construction, biotech, and financial services industries.
Tom has extensive experience in advising on mediations, settlement agreements, day-to-day HR issues, grievance and disciplinary proceedings, and the applicability of TUPE.
Before joining the Bar, Tom worked for 7 years as an employment solicitor at leading London law firms. Tom is used to working closely with clients and understands the importance of client care.
Tom acts for Claimants and is registered for public access.
Appeared for the Respondent at a nine-day final hearing regarding allegations of whistleblowing detriment.
Appeared for the Respondent at an eight-day final hearing regarding allegations of sex and race discrimination.
Appeared for the Claimant at a five-day final hearing regarding allegations of unfair dismissal and whistleblowing.
Appeared for the Appellant in the EAT and Court of Appeal regarding the law on multiple instances of alleged harassment and the sufficiency of Tribunal reasons.
Appeared for the Respondent at an eight-day final hearing regarding allegations of race and disability discrimination.
Appeared for the Respondent in the EAT regarding an appeal against a finding that the Claimant was not disabled due to migraines.
Appeared for the Respondent at a five-day final hearing regarding allegations of unfair dismissal.
Appeared for the Claimant at a five-day final hearing regarding allegations of unfair dismissal and disability discrimination.
Acted for the Respondent at a six-day final hearing defending allegations of racial and religious discrimination, automatically unfair dismissal and detriment due to whistleblowing.
Acted for the Respondent local authority at a seven-day final hearing defending 13 allegations of race, religion and pregnancy or maternity discrimination.
Acted for the Respondent at a six-day final hearing defending multiple allegations of sex and disability discrimination.
Successfully acted for the Claimant at an eight-day final hearing regarding an allegation of rape at a work social event.
Acted for the Respondent at an eight-day final hearing regarding allegations of sexual harassment at work.
Successfully acted for the Respondent charity at a six-day final hearing defending claims of detriment and automatically unfair dismissal related to whistleblowing.
Successfully acted for the Respondent charity at a multi-day final hearing defending claims of direct disability discrimination and failure to make reasonable adjustments.
Successfully acted for the Respondent at a multi-day final hearing defending claims of direct associative disability discrimination.
Successfully acted for the Respondent at a multi-day final hearing defending claims of harassment, discrimination arising from disability and failure to make reasonable adjustments.
Successfully appeared for the Appellant in the EAT in a case regarding the employer’s right to bring an employer’s contract claim.
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"Tom has great technical knowledge and provides the right amount of feedback and updates to the instructing solicitor during multi-day hearings. He establishes a good rapport with witnesses and clients at in-person and virtual hearings."
The Equal Treatment Bench Book is a much-underused resource for all litigators. If you have never read it (or at least referred to it), why…
Following the release of the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners UK rankings, we are pleased to announce that No5 has once again obtained its…
