Andrew Tomas

Andrew was amongst the first Costs Lawyers to achieve regulated status in 2007, with over 25 years’ experience in dealing with contentious costs. He has over the years been instructed in all areas of personal injury, clinical negligence and commercial litigation.

Having been trained initially by a well-respected Costs Specialist, he worked in a number of firms in and around the City and Holborn areas of London before setting up on his own account in 1994. His current business being one of the largest independent costs practices in the country.

This broad experience has given Andrew a comprehensive level of expert knowledge in all areas of costs law, including disputes between Solicitor and Client, and all aspects of between the parties costs disputes.

Andrew has been involved in many substantial commercial cases, including the claim for costs of a contract dispute in the Cayman Islands (costs claimed c. $40 million), a claim for costs on behalf of a successful Defendant to a multi-million pound action for fraud by an international bank (costs claimed c £5 million) and a further international fraud claim which was described by the Judge on a costs appeal as one of the most substantial pieces of litigation of our time (costs claimed c £4 million).

He has been involved also in a number of significantly high value Conditional Fee claims, the most notable being an employer’s liability claim brought by the families of a group of engineers who were kidnapped and executed in Chechnya; and a claim for personal injury by a Premier League footballer against an opposing player and club in which the Claimant alleged that the Defendant had tackled him with malicious intent and the injury sustained had ended his career. Costs in both cases were in the region of £1 million.

Andrew has appeared at all levels from County Courts across the Country to the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court) and has rights of audience as a Costs Lawyer, and has been instructed as an expert witness on English costs law in both domestic disputes and a number of foreign jurisdictions. Andrew is also a CLSB accredited trainer.