Tommy Seagull

Year of Call: 2018

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Tommy is developing a broad practice in criminal defence, including related areas of public law and human rights.

He has an interest in immigration-related offences and cases involving modern slavery and human trafficking.

Tommy Seagull

Notable Cases & News

Garden Court Chambers celebrates 50th Anniversary

This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.

Friday 31 May 2024

Gerwyn Wise and Tommy Seagull secure unanimous acquittal of client accused of firearms and drugs offences

Gerwyn Wise led Tommy Seagull, both of the Garden Court Criminal Defence Team, instructed by Tosin Akinbobye of Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors.

Friday 2 Aug 2024

The Manchester 10: Court of Appeal grants permission to appeal convictions

Keir Monteith KC and Audrey Cherryl Mogan represent Ademola Adedeji in the Court of Appeal, who is currently serving an eight-year prison sentence. Elena Papamichael, led by Arlette Piercy, represents Martin Thomas, also serving an eight-year prison sente

Thursday 1 Aug 2024

The Manchester 10: where a racialised ‘gang’ narrative led to unsafe convictions

Keir Monteith KC and Audrey Cherryl Mogan, both of Garden Court Chambers, represent Ademola Adedeji, in the Court of Appeal. Elena Papamichael and Tommy Seagull, both of Garden Court Chambers, are supporting the case.

Friday 19 Jul 2024

Four former pupils join Garden Court Chambers as new tenants

Tommy Seagull, Maaha Elahi, Harry Harris and Josephine Fathers have joined Chambers as full members and have already started developing multi-disciplinary practices across the full span of Chambers’ areas of law.

Monday 30 Oct 2023

Tommy Seagull awarded Inaugural CBA Chair’s Essay Prize in Equality and Diversity

Tommy Seagull, a pupil at Garden Court Chambers, is the winner of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA)'s Inaugural Chair's Essay in the area of Equality and Diversity.

Monday 14 Aug 2023

Background

As a Kalisher Scholar, he spent time in Florida assisting on death penalty cases at an Amicus-affiliated public defender office. He previously worked at a public inquiry and co-founded 'I Too Am Human', a campaign to tackle negative perceptions of refugees, by telling the stories of those he met at refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk. He has also represented parents appealing against their child’s permanent school exclusion and interned at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva.

He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from St. Peter's College, University of Oxford and completed the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at City University. As a keen former debater, he has previously taught debating at a summer school he set up in Newham, at KPMG for newly-promoted Senior Managers and at the Oxford Union. He was also a judge at the Grand Final of the International Public Speaking Competition. He was formerly the ESU International and English Mace debating champion and has won other advocacy competitions including The Times Law Competition and Lincoln’s Inn Crowther Shield. He recently won the Criminal Bar Association’s Chair’s Essay Award for his essay on the impact of the Lammy Report on the sentencing process.

Awards

  • Tancred Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
  • Advocacy Scholarship, BPP
  • Hardwicke Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
  • Lord Haldane Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn

Education

  • BA Hons, University of Oxford
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, City University
  • Bar Professional Training Course, BPP

Professional Memberships

  • Criminal Bar Association
  • The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
  • Amicus ALJ

 

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