Tom Walker

Significant Experience

• Extensive Criminal Court and Regulatory Tribunal experience, which includes the successful conduct of numerous multi-day trials, and involvement in a number of complex and high-profile criminal cases involving fatalities.
• Appearing in the Criminal Courts on behalf of prosecutors, to include the HSE, RSPCA and National Park Authorities.
• Involvement in health and safety cases in the agricultural, road transport, maritime, manufacturing, construction, leisure and utilities sectors.
• Advising prosecution agencies in relation to corporate manslaughter and work-related death investigations and acting on behalf of such agencies at inquests.
• Acting for individuals in manslaughter investigations and prosecutions.
• Acting for individual directors and companies in health and social care investigations conducted by the Care Quality Commission and Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales.
• Advising directors and companies in relation to investigations conducted by trading standards agencies in relation to pricing and selling practices.
• Advising very large organisations in relation to EU-wide product recalls, involving electrical, consumer and food products.
• Advising directors and companies in relation to formal undertakings and criminal proceedings under the Enterprise Act 2002.
• Acting for directors and companies in fraud and consumer protection proceedings, to include prosecutions in the Crown Court.
• Acting for clients in water pollution and breach of planning control prosecutions.
• Advising clients in relation to food labelling, health claims, food product recalls, and acting for clients in food safety prosecutions.
• Advising clients in relation to criminal appeals, including applications to the Court of Appeal and the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
• Provision of bespoke training sessions to prosecution agencies in relation to criminal procedure, disclosure and expert evidence.