Thomas practises chiefly in criminal law and related areas. He also accepts briefs in several fields of civil litigation. He read for the bar with Mr T.F. Danos. He appears as counsel in all courts and statutory tribunals of the Commonwealth, Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. His practice focusses on jury trials, appellate work, and defending contested summary prosecutions.

Tom has been involved in defending prosecutions for murder and major drug and sex offences. His experience includes extensive work defending the North Korean mariners accused of involvement in Victoria's largest heroin importation. In a recent trial, Tom’s work revealed that members of Victoria Police’s specialist crime squads routinely do not swear the affidavits supporting their applications for search warrants, rendering those warrants invalid.

His civil practice includes Mareva ("freezing") and Anton Piller ("search") orders, Customs matters and other cases with a quasi-criminal factual matrix. He also represents witnesses coercively compelled to give evidence in inquisitorial criminal justice proceedings (federal and state crime commissions, O.P.I., Chief Examiner, etc.).

Tom has particular expertise in the law relating to firearms, forensic science and medicine. He appears regularly in the Coroners Court.

His various interests outside the law include Renaissance and baroque music and cult films of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.

Tom is a member of the Victorian Bar, the Criminal Bar Association of Victoria and the Queensland Bar Association.

Languages: German.