Particulars of Claim in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, on behalf of Axiom Legal Financing Fund, of the Cayman Islands, v. Mayer Brown International LLP at the High Court of Justice for England and Wales.
Christopher Hale has become the sixth British solicitor to be struck off due to involvement in the Cayman Islands-based Axiom Legal Financing Fund, which defrauded investors of more than £100 million before collapsing in 2012 after being exposed by OffshoreAlert.
Judgment in Solicitors Regulation Authority v. Duncan Neil Gibbins, Matthew Roy Edmund Dean, and Nicola Klimkowski at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
Two more British attorneys - Richard Barnett and Anthony Swift - who participated in the £100 million-plus fraud committed via Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund have been accused of professional misconduct, including misappropriating funds received from Axiom.
Offshore providers in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, and Switzerland face huge liabilities after allowing insiders to loot Axiom Legal Financing Fund of tens of millions of pounds. Those most at risk from being sued by Axiom's eventual liquidators appear to be DMS Group, JP Funds Group, BDO Cayman, and Ogier, all in the Cayman Islands; Turnstone Group, in the Isle of Man; and Portland Financial Management, of Switzerland.