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Thomas O'Donohoe

Year of Call: 2007
Email Address: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7583 8055

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Clerks Details

  • Clerk Name: Gemma Faulkner
  • Clerk Telephone: 020 7583 8055
  • Clerk Email: [email protected]
  • Clerk Name: Oliver Bradley
  • Clerk Telephone: 020 7583 8055
  • Clerk Email: [email protected]

Overview

Thomas O’Donohoe is a member of the Attorney General’s London B Panel of Junior Counsel and specialises in acting for government organisations in a range of public and private law contexts.

For more detailed information please see his specialist profile pages.

Expertise

  • Public and Administrative Law
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    Public Inquiries

    Thomas is currently instructed by HMG in the Omagh Bombing Inquiry and also in the Undercover Policing Inquiry in which he has advised and appeared as an advocate on numerous occasions.

    Additional public law experience

    Thomas has also been instructed by HMG in a range of other public law cases, recent examples of which include:

    • A & C International Road Cargo SRL V SSHD (defending haulier's appeal under s35A IAA 1999 against a civil penalty imposed owing to the presence of a clandestine entrant in one of their vehicles at Calais)
    • Witham v Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (defending appeal by a liable person against a Deduction from Earnings Order to recover child support maintenance)
    • Roberts v DWP (defending disability discrimination claims brought under the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the administration of benefits).
    • Various immigration cases (defending oral applications made in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) for permission to judicially review Home Office immigration decisions)

    Civil litigation and IPT

    Thomas has extensive experience acting for HMG in the High Court and the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in cases engaging issues of national security, foreign law and allegations of HMG complicity in rendition, detention and/or torture. He is currently instructed in two such cases.

    A recent concluded case of this kind, heard in the IPT, is Al-Hawsawi & Al-Nashiri v The Security Service & others (2025) UKIPTrib 11.

  • Articles

    • Employment law matters post-election

      20th Jun 2017

      Employment law barrister Thomas O'Donohoe examines the impact of the general election's result on employment cases. In the wake of the snap general election's result, employment law barrister Thomas O'Donohoe examines how employment cases may be affected.

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  • Recommendations

    "Many thanks for your help with this case and for securing an excellent result – the client was very complimentary about you and it is obviously of particular importance where we aren't attending hearings to have a personable barrister with strong client management skills." - instructing employment solicitor, 2017.

    “Please extend my thanks to Mr O’Donohoe for this comprehensive submission. Your choice in him was very well placed” – whistleblowing claimant client represented successfully by Thomas at ET and EAT level.

    “Tom’s approach was exceptionally thorough and this gave our client great confidence in his advice in a case involving complex variables about future loss of earnings” – instructing PI solicitor.

    “Thank you for your outstanding work on this case. I look forward to working with you again” – instructing solicitor in successful defence of claims of unfair dismissal and whistleblowing.

    “We instructed Tom in a recent RTA case involving a father and his daughter who both suffered substantial physical and psychological injuries. Both have been impressed not only by Tom’s thoroughness and attention to detail but also by the sympathetic treatment and understanding they have received from him throughout” - instructing PI solicitor.

    “Thomas has been instructed on a number of occasions and has proved to be excellent...exceptional legal knowledge within his selected area... . A fantastic ability to quickly understand complex issues within a short space of time and the ability to analyse and deal with a large amount of information without prompting.... Clients find him to be an excellent orator with fantastic diction and cross examination skills... a trusted advocate and is recommended amongst fee earners in the department... determined to succeed on behalf of clients” - head of employment law at a firm of instructing solicitors.

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