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.
Tayo Dasaolu and Emma Handley were instructed by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as part of the disclosure team, working on the Axiom Fraud investigation.
In 2020 the Serious Fraud Office charged three men with multiple offences in connection with its investigation into the collapse of the Axiom Legal Financing Fund. Timothy Schools, David Kennedy and Richard Emmett were charged with carrying out a fraudulent scheme to divert money from the Axiom Legal Financing Fund for their own benefit.
Timothy Schools dishonestly funnelled nearly £20m of investors’ money from a legal financing fund into his own pocket to fund a luxury lifestyle has been jailed for 14 years.
The Axiom fund was purportedly set up to lend money to firms pursuing no-win no-fee claims but collapsed in October 2012, jurors were told, meaning investors ‘lost everything’ while Schools was ‘making money hand over fist’.
Timothy Schools, 61, was found guilty of three counts of fraudulent trading, one count of fraud and one count of transferring criminal property in relation to the Cayman Islands-registered Axiom Legal Financing Fund.
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]
CJSM: [email protected]
