Paul Schofield Email & Phone Number

With over 40 years' experience, I am the Founder and Head of Farleys' Criminal department, dealing exclusively with Serious Fraud, Business Crime, and Serious Crime. I am a Very High Cost Cases Panel Supervisor and a Higher Courts (Criminal) Advocate. My nationwide reputation is founded over many years' on a considerable number of high profile media interest cases. I also have a well earned reputation for sustained personal attention to a case from start to finish, detailed and energetic preparation and robustly defending the rights of clients.I have been recognised every year since 2003 as a leading lawyer in Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession, since 2007 in Debrett’s People of Today for my ‘outstanding contribution to the legal profession’, and since 2010 in The Legal 500 as a recommended lawyer; alongside my department which is repeatedly recognised as a leading firm in criminal law. Recent feedback from these publications include:"He is very calm, measured and an incisive solicitor." "He is an outstanding lawyer with superb client-handling skills. He is a no-nonsense lawyer who gets straight to the issues." "He is a superb solicitor who brings real tenacity, thoroughness and experience to cases.""They provide a level of service to clients which has become very hard to come by over the last decade. No firm will do more for their clients. The amount of time devoted to the client is incredible. Their case preparation could be regarded as an unattainable model by other firms."I also have wide ranging expertise in national and international fraud and money laundering, undertaking defence preparation in foreign jurisdictions, notably time in Tokyo taking numerous defence witness statements which resulted in a very high value fraud being dropped. My key clients in financial crime include other lawyers, company directors, and other professionals across a wide range of sectors including accountancy, insurance and education.

Listed skills include Criminal Law, Courts, Legal Advice, Fraud, and 23 others.

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  Partner, Llp Member, Solicitor

  Farleys Solicitors Llp

  Apr 1977 - Present - North West - But With A National Practice

  Operation Enigma: very large £200m money laundering case involving transfers abroad via money transfer business in the North of England. We act for company director and MLRO, one of 15 defendants.Operation Inertia I: a massive ‘Carousel’ or ‘MTIC’ fraud involving alleged loss to the Revenue of £165m, described by HMRC as ‘the largest case of its kind’ involving voluminous paperwork ‘if all printed off would stretch for 28 miles’. The main part of the case has been concluded at a Crown Court in London with us securing a marvellous result for our client a former company director. She faced the main charge of conspiracy to cheat HM Revenue but after painstaking defence preparation and hard negotiations, the Crown agreed to drop the case against her. Other defendants convicted of the main offence were sentenced to between 8 and 17 years in prison.Operation Inertia II: a later stage of the above, again an excellent result for our client in that he did not go to prison for his accepted involvement in the matter.Operation Elveden: investigation by London’s Metropolitan Police into alleged corrupt payments by members of the press to public officials for ‘Royal stories’. Linked to Operation Weeting: We act for former Army officer.Operation Valgus: conspiracy to defraud, a wide ranging mortgage fraud involving professional defendants and very many properties. We act for mortgage broker/packager, case in Wales.Operation Sunset: investigation into high class escort agency in the North of England and related offences including money laundering.Read more of Paul's recent notable cases http://www.farleys.com/notable-cases-paul-schofield/

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  St Mary'S College Grammar School