Tom Clark

When did you qualify?

Tom qualified as a solicitor in 1986.

What is your specialist area of law? What types of cases do you deal with?

• Monitoring Officer for Tewkesbury Borough Council
• Wide knowledge of the law as it applies to local authorities
• Process member Code of Conduct cases and advise both members and officers on governance and legal issues more generally

Share a couple of professional triumphs/achievements. Have you had any cases reported locally/nationally? Won any awards for your legal work?

• Over 20 years ago Tom initiated a high court appeal for Tewkesbury Borough Council to confirm the person playing amplified music at a marquee wedding function was responsible for the noise level of that music and not the environmental officers who had overseen the set up in the marquee