Thomas O'Donohoe

Call 2007
Email thomas.odonohoe@3pb.co.uk
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Business & Commercial Law

Tom has been instructed in a range of commercial matters covering contract and credit hire, at final and interim hearings.

Contract

Tom frequently acts for claimants and defendants in relation to commercial contractual disputes. Recent cases have raised issues of implied terms as to reasonable notice and repudiatory breach in a contract for services; reliance on retention of title clauses in interpleader proceedings in the High Court; defence of debt recovery proceedings on the basis of breach of an ‘entire obligation’ under the contract and / or a collateral contract; and whether an employee had been introduced to and engaged by the defendant company such as to incur liability for an introduction fee payable to the claimant employment business.

Credit Hire

Tom is regularly instructed by claimants and defendants in proceedings involving claims for credit hire charges, often in addition to other heads of loss including personal injuries. Tom has particular experience of the operation of the Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer’s Home or Place of Work etc. Regulations 2008 and the analysis of rates evidence (including cross-examination of the authors of rates reports).