Our Expertise
St Pauls Chambers provides legal services throughout the UK and worldwide. We are known for providing excellence in our areas of focus.
As a leading barristers chambers in Leeds, our expertise span the depth and breadth of a number of key areas of law.
Our People
St Pauls Chambers have an excellent team of Barristers, Clerks & Administration, with our barristers including KC’s, Members and Pupils.
View our teams in full detail, or browse by expertise to find a barrister.
Call 1998 | Silk 2023
Nicholas Worsley KC defends and prosecutes all areas of criminal law, with particular experience in violent and sexual offences; drugs, fraud and money laundering.
He has represented police officers, medical staff and members of the armed forces in criminal proceedings, misconduct cases and disciplinary hearings.
Nick has considerable experience in cases involving children – whether as defendants or witnesses.
He has completed training in the Hague as one of panel of co-counsel for the defence to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Nick is named as a Leading Junior in the the Legal 500.
MU
Defence – manslaughter and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
MS
‘Crash for cash’ conspiracy.
MFR
Defence – murder [shooting].
Parvez
Defence – conspiracy to murder – setting up an execution by shooting.
Op Rummingbird
Defence junior – attempted murder by entrapment and shooting.
TK
Defence – attempted murder of his parents by mentally ill defendant.
Wilby
Defence – shaken baby case.
M
Defence – cruelty and neglect allegations against care home staff.
Robinson
Defence – causing death by dangerous driving.
Ahmed
Defence – s.18 stabbing.
H
Defence – alleged assaults by ex-soldier suffering from PTSD – with complex psychiatric and substance abuse issues.
Normanton
Defence – attempted execution of a ‘fixer’ trying to orchestrate the return of stolen drugs.
Ditta
Defence – alleged racist attack on EDL members.
Mehbub & Others
Defence – main accused in multi-handed racial aggravated s.18.
Wardle
Defence junior – murder.
Ayers
Prosecution – baby shaking.
Anwar & Navsarka
Prosecution junior- murder of a baby by her parents.
Parker
Defence junior – murder – suicidal ideation in victim – somnambulism.
Cipans & Others
Prosecution junior – Eastern European gangsters – murder of gang-master and concealment of his body.
Marshal
Defence junior – double murder of drug dealers by their client.
DK
Defence – fraud at flagship academy school.
FH
Defence – £170million ‘vishing’ fraud.
AH
Defence – complex mortgage fraud and tax evasion.
Ali
Defence – attempting to pervert the course of justice, money laundering and identity theft.
Dunn & Others
Prosecution – £multi-million duty evasion.
Zulqurnain
Defence – Insurance fraud, advance fee fraud and misconduct in insolvency proceedings.
Goodwick 1 & 2
Prosecution – multi handed fraud and money laundering.
Nana
Defence – company directors defrauding Royal Mail.
Shaffi
Defence – trading standards and criminal prosecution – re-categorising category D write-off vehicles as road-worthy and hacking into the insurer’s MIAFTR to amend computer records.
Trotter
Defence – commercial armed robberies.
Upton
Prosecution – fraud by accountant against his clients and HMRC.
Iqbal
Prosecution – £multi-million HMRC tied oils prosecution and confiscation – cross border – England & N.Ireland.
Page & Others
Defence – money laundering following on from high value drug dealing.
Morgan
Defence junior – money laundering following on from £multi-million drug dealing.
R v Feezan Hameed & Others
Defence Junior for Feezan Hameed- The largest covert proactive operation the Met has ever undertaken against cyber-enabled crime.
Op Kegg
Defence – grooming, trafficking and rape.
Forsyth
Defence – prosecution for sexual offences where the complainant refused to give evidence.
Briggs
Prosecution – historic sexual offences committed by an international pianist against young boys.
Ditta
Defence – rape – stranger rape of a student – drunken consent / behaviour of the complainant.
Cooke
Defence – rape and false imprisonment of a former partner.
Alves
Defence – rape – complainant suffering from complex psychiatric issues.
G
Prosecution – recent and historic rapes.
W
Defence – 14 year old boy alleged to have raped and sexually abused other children aged 4 to 15.
Khan
Defence – misconduct and appropriation of charity assets by assistant executive director.
Mahmood
Defence – misconduct in public office – UKBA employee – using computer database for improper purpose.
JH
Defence – police officer – misconduct involving theft, drugs and sexual predation.
Kliutiute
Defence – nursing home – abuse of resident with dementia.
H
Defence – misconduct – Police officer unlawfully accessing police computer databases and providing information to a claims handling company.
Wilcox
Defence – police officer misconduct – rape – issues surrounding consent and capacity.
S
Defence – nurse – historic child cruelty.
Hafejee
Prosecution – fraud trial of magistrate / charity director.
EA & Others
Prosecution – high value international drug smuggling.
K
Defence – drugs factory conspiracy.
Khan
Defence – drugs factory conspiracy involving complex telephone evidence.
Zaki
Defence – drug importation – issues of duress – family in Pakistan held hostage.
Naughton
Defence – drugs factory.
Operation Godshill
Prosecution – drugs factory.
Operation Dweomer
Defence – multi-handed £2bn conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine and to produce methamphetamine (crystal meth).
Spinola & Wright
Prosecution – largest ever heroin seizure in the North of England.
Qureshi
Defence junior – £multi-million drug smuggling with European cross-border jurisdictional issues involving communications rogatoires and disclosure.
Chambers is centrally located within walking distance of the train station, secure car parks and the Courts.
St Pauls Chambers
Park Row House
19-20 Park Row
Leeds
LS1 5JF
For out of hours assistance please call the senior clerk on 07854170429.
The switchboard will open from 08:30 until 17:30
Phone: +44 (0)1132 455 866
Email: [email protected]
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