Masters of the Bench

Full Title: Mr Tobias Riley-Smith KC

Category: Ordinary Bencher

Bench Call Date: 15-04-2026

Call Date: 23-11-1995

Bio:

Toby Riley-Smith KC read History at Trinity College, Cambridge.  After a couple of years of work in PR for a charity, he studied for the Diploma in Law at City University.  He was awarded a Jules Thorne Scholarship and took the Bar Course in 1995.   He was a pupil at Henderson Chambers and has practised there ever since, specialising in product liability, consumer law, group litigation, health & safety, environmental law, inquests and inquiries.  

He has been an accredited mediator since 2000.  He was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel in 2012.  He took silk in 2016.  He has sat as a Recorder since 2019 (crime and family) and was made Standing Counsel to the Competition and Markets Authority in 2021. 

He is a Middle Temple Advocacy Trainer, sits on the Scholarship Finance Review Committee and is a member of the Middle Temple Historical Society.