Barristers

Tom Poole KC

Tom Poole KC

3 Hare Court, London

Position

Tom has a broad commercial and commercial chancery practice, with particular specialisms in civil fraud, asset recovery, insolvency, international arbitration and employment. He has particular experience of heavy High Court trial work, having acted in several lengthy commercial chancery trials, and has considerable experience working with 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 multijurisdictional claims.

Tom appears in both courts and before arbitral tribunals at all levels, including under a variety of rules. He has extensive experience of appellate advocacy, particularly in the Privy Council, in which he has many constitutional, human rights and public law reported cases.

Tom was appointed Queen’s Counsel in March 2021. Before taking silk in 2021, 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 public law and employment cases.

Career

Called 2001; Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown 2014; B Panel 2010; C Panel 2007.

Memberships

Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association Fraud Lawyers Association Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) R3 London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association (LCLCBA)

Education

St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (MA first class); Gooderson Law Scholarship; ECS Wade Prize for Administrative Law.

Mentions

The English Bar Offshore

Commercial disputes

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Tom Poole KC – 3 Hare Court  ‘Tom is one of the most user-friendly barristers. He is super responsive, excellent with clients and tactically astute.’
London Bar

Employment

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Tom Poole KC – 3 Hare Court 'He is brilliant with clients, commercially minded and pro-active.'
London Bar

Fraud: civil

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Tom 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.'
London Bar

Insolvency

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Tom Poole KC – 3 Hare Court
The English Bar Offshore

Other expertise

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Tom 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.’