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Mr Tom Poole KC KC
Position
Tom Poole KC has a wide-ranging practice, specialising in international and domestic litigation and arbitration involving civil fraud, emplolyment, insurance, insolvency and contractual and commercial cases across the board.
Tom also has significant appellate advocacy experience in constitutional and public law cases, particularly in the Privy Council, in which he has many reported cases.
Tom is rated by The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading silk in: Commercial Dispute Resolution, Civil Fraud, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Employment, Insolvency and Offshore.
Tom has particular experience of heavy High Court trial work, having acted in several lengthy commercial chancery trials, and has considerable experience of working with and leading large teams of solicitors, foreign lawyers and experts.
Much of Tom’s work has an international element, with clients from jurisdictions including the Caribbean, Gibraltar, Cyprus and Russia / CIS. As such, he has significant experience of conflicts of laws and offshore issues arising out of multi-jurisdictional claims.
Before taking silk, Tom was a member of the Attorney-General’s “A” Panel for civil counsel and in that capacity acted in some of the Government’s most high-profile and complex cases.
Tom is one of the Lead Counsel to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
Career
Called 2001; Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown 2014; B Panel 2010; C Panel 2007.
Memberships
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- Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
- Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association
- Fraud Lawyers Association
- Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA)
- R3
Education
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (MA first class); Gooderson Law Scholarship; ECS Wade Prize for Administrative Law.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Tom Poole KC – 3 Hare Court ‘He is brilliant with clients, commercially minded and pro-active.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Tom Poole KC –3 Hare Court ‘Tom is an exceptionally talented advocate, and his knowledge and skill set in the area of civil fraud is impressive.’
The English Bar Offshore > Other expertise
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Tom Poole KC – 3 Hare Court ‘Tom is one of the most user-friendly barristers you can use, and that hasn’t changed since he took silk. He is super responsive, excellent with clients, and his written advice and pleadings are concise and clear and he is tactically astute.’
3 Hare Court boasts particular expertise in cases before the Privy Council and the Supreme Court in the Caribbean and Gibraltar. The set is home to Tom Poole KC who is particularly skilled in constitutional and administrative law, which encompasses public law, human rights, and civil liberties. He acted for the Attorney General in The King v James Miller, which addressed s.12(3) of the Bahamian penal code and the correct way to direct a jury in cases of attempted murder. Tim Prudhoe is a key junior at the set, having represented a same-sex couple in a case surrounding a spousal exemption for an immigration waiver, as the Turks and Caicos Islands did not previously recognise same-sex couples for this purpose (Haymon and Sankar v Director of Immigration). The set is also home to notable juniors Adam Riley and Katharine Bailey.
The English Bar Offshore > Commercial disputes
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Tom Poole KC – 3 Hare Court ‘Tom is one of the most user-friendly barristers. He is super responsive, excellent with clients and tactically astute.’