Practice areas
Commercial Crime
Chambers act in all types of serious fraud from initial advisory work to representation at trial or appeal, in cases brought by the Serious Fraud Office, HM Revenue & Customs Prosecution Office, the Inland Revenue, the Department of Trade & Industry and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Members have experience in acting on behalf of individuals and companies accused of fraud and related offences. Members have advised prior to charge and at the investigatory stages on such matters as the seizure of privileged material, legality of search warrants, the approach to be taken upon receipt of orders issued under Sec 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987.
We also have expertise in ancillary fields such as money laundering, asset forfeiture & confiscation and directors’ disqualification proceedings.
Recent cases have included
R v. V & ors [2010 -2011]
£7m "Boiler Room" high pressure share pushing operation.
R v. R & 5 ors [2010-2011]
£4m Advanced Fee Fraud
R v. Foster [2009 - 2010]
£34m Pyramid Fraud
Ranbaxy Pharmaceutical Fraud [2005-2008]
Multi Million Pharmaceutical Cartel fraud, the largest SFO prosecution to-date.
R v Anthony Quarco [2010]
Leading junior in prosecution of a serving immigration officer and special constable for corruption and organised immigration offences.
R v. Finch & ors [2009]
Multi-Handed conspiracy to defraud private bank.
R v. Ford & ors [2009]
Conspiracy to supply 100 kilos of pure cocaine & money laundering of £10 million
R v. Kohli & ors [2007]
Multimillion pound money laundering case related to VAT MTIC fraud
R v. Al-Hakim & ors [2005]
Multimillion pound car insurance fraud
R v. Al-Gabri & ors [2007]
Multimillion pound car insurance fraud