Tom Frazer

Since completing pupillage in Chambers in October 2019, Tom has developed a high-level, complex practice spanning the full breadth of commercial chancery work. In particular, Tom has experience in:

Commercial
Property, including real property and both commercial and residential landlord and tenant
Private client work, including trusts, probate and Inheritance Act claims
Company

In addition to drafting and advisory services, Tom appears regularly in the High Court (particularly the Business and Property Courts), County Courts across the country and tribunals, both as sole and junior counsel. Tom also has experience of acting in commercial arbitration under the ICC and LCIA rules, as well as in mediations and other forms of ADR.

Between 2022 and 2025, Tom was admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) where he advised on, assisted with and appeared in cases in the BVI Court of Appeal and High Court.

Tom is the author of a short book on the developing tort of visual intrusion, published in 2024 with Law Brief Publishers.

Tom has also completed a number of secondments with law firms, both in the UK and the BVI, and the Financial Conduct Authority. Tom accepts direct access work.

Tom graduated with a first-class undergraduate degree in ancient history from the University of Bristol, before achieving distinctions in both a master’s degree in English literature, and in his Graduate Diploma in Law. Tom was called to the bar in 2017 by Middle Temple and was awarded a Queen Mother Scholarship to assist with his professional training. Prior to commencing pupillage, Tom worked as a judicial assistant to Lady Justice Arden (as she then was) in the Court of Appeal.

Commercial and International

Tom frequently acts in claims between commercial entities, including contractual disputes and debt recovery actions. Tom has worked on a broad range of high-value commercial litigation in both the UK and the BVI. Recently, Tom has acted (both as sole counsel and as junior counsel led by Ian Clarke KC) in commercial cases involving issues of breach of confidence, misappropriation and unlawful means conspiracy.

Tom has experience of acting and advising in relation to interim remedies such as freezing injunctions and Bankers Trusts orders.

Tom’s commercial arbitration work includes being led in 2021 by Romie Tager KC in a multi-million pound contractual dispute, and in 2026 acting as sole counsel in a dispute concerning the licensed use of trademarks.

Tom also has experience of advising and drafting in financial regulatory work. Between November 2019 and February 2020, Tom completed a secondment with the Financial Conduct Authority. Tom also completed a secondment with a leading firm of shipping solicitors.

Property

Tom has considerable expertise in many areas of property work, and accepts instructions across the full breadth of that practice area. He frequently advises and appears in matters concerning real property, including:

Boundary and easement disputes, including adverse possession claims
Trespass and nuisance claims, including interference with easements and right to light disputes
Claims concerning trusts of land, including beneficial interest quantification disputes and claims for orders for sale
Land registration claims in the First-tier Tribunal
Applications involving charging and freezing orders over assets

Tom has extensive experience of both commercial and residential landlord and tenant work up to High Court level, including:

Claims for possession (for both claimant and defendant) brought under the Housing Acts, Rent Acts, and by mortgagees
Claims for forfeiture and relief from forfeiture
Service charge disputes
Commercial and residential dilapidations claims

Tom was led by Stuart Hornett in Singh v Jhutti [2021] EWHC 2272 (Ch), which concerned ownership of a multi-million pound property portfolio and engaged issues of forgery, the formalities of property transfers and trust law.

In 2024, Tom published ‘A Practical Guide to Visual Intrusion and the Tort of Nuisance’ with Law Brief Publishing, which considered the implications of the case of Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4. Tom has also recently given talks to solicitors’ firms on the distinction between fixtures and chattels, and mortgagees’ proprietary remedies.

Private Client

Tom has a burgeoning private client practice, in which he has acted and advised on:

Disputes concerning the existence and construction of express, resulting and constructive trusts
Disputes concerning the construction, variation and rectification of wills
Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975

Company

Tom accepts instructions across all areas of company law, including acting and advising shareholders in claims for unfair prejudice and equitable winding up, and in relation to breaches of directors’ duties. Tom’s practice includes claims involving both corporate and individual insolvency, which has seen him act regularly in winding-up disputes in the High Court, claims for and applications to set aside statutory demands, and bankruptcy petitions.

Whilst on secondment with a leading firm in the BVI in 2022, Tom has worked on international company law disputes involving claims under the BVI Business Companies Act, unfair prejudice and directors’ indemnification. Tom has subsequently been instructed in the BVI to act in cases concerning civil fraud and breach of directors’ duties.