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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.
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St Pauls Chambers have an excellent team of Barristers, Clerks & Administration, with our barristers including KC’s, Members and Pupils.
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The team at St Pauls chambers is highly experienced in corporate manslaughter cases, advising and advocating both prosecution and defence.
The offence of corporate manslaughter was established by the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act (2007). This removed the common law offence of gross negligence manslaughter for organisations to which the 2007 Act applies. These organisations affected are corporations (limited companies), partnerships, government departments and Crown bodies.
The Act addressed the perceived loophole in liability for large corporations where the common law doctrine of identification had proved an insurmountable hurdle. In other words, before the Act the prosecution could find it impossible to prove the act/omission causing death was in breach of a duty of care owed by an individual who embodied the corporation.
To show how important the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act (2007) is, previous application of common law identification pre-act resulted in successful prosecutions of the company involved for manslaughter. This includes public disasters such as the Herald of Free Enterprise, Piper Alpha, the Marchioness and the Hatfield rail crash.
“The clerking team is responsive, extremely approachable and knowledgeable”
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For further information and enquiries please contact our clerks team.
Jayne Drake
Senior Clerk
+44 (0)1132 270 703
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Matthew Taylor
Practice Development Clerk
+44 (0)1132 270 706
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Kelly Staniforth
Criminal Clerk
+44 (0)1132 270 705
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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
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