'A masterful advocate; he makes winning look easy.’Legal 500 2021
Call 2000
Jonathan is a specialist criminal and appellate advocate with a wide experience of serious and complex cases, often involving complex financial organised crime. He is regularly instructed by Complex Casework Units and Headquarters Divisions as well as corporations and individuals. Jonathan is ranked as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide 2018 (Band 1) and the Legal 500. Jonathan was appointed Junior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court by the Attorney General in November 2017.
He is particularly experienced in dealing with the issues arising out of cases that involve intelligence-led policing and RIPA-regulated activity and is often instructed pre-charge to advise law enforcement agencies as well as a leading junior at trial, often against silks. Jonathan has a wealth of experience in dealing with financial crime, corruption, direct and indirect taxation and money laundering as well as restraint and confiscation.
Having previously worked in the computer industry, Jonathan is particularly at ease when conducting cases involving the internet, computer, electronic or mobile phone evidence. He has developed a particular specialism in cases with a cyber angle, including corporate blackmail. Jonathan has lectured on the GDPR.
Jonathan accepts instructions from all specialist divisions of the Crown Prosecution Service, Solicitors and when appropriate Direct Professional Access "DPA". Instructions in privately funded matters are accepted subject to The (New) Standard Contractual Terms for the Supply of Legal Services by Barristers to Authorized Persons 2012. Jonathan's Privacy Notice can be downloaded here.
8 January 2021
Jonathan Polnay opens the prosecution case at the start of the sentencing... Read More