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Blackfords LLP

HILL HOUSE, 1 MINT WALK, CROYDON, CR0 1EA, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 8686 6232
Fax:
Fax 020 8681 5078
DX:
2617 CROYDON
Web:
www.blackfords.com
Email:
Woking, London, Croydon

Gary Bloxsome

Tel:
Work +44 20 8686 6232
Email:
Blackfords LLP

Work Department

Head of serious crime team.

Position

Partner; solicitor-advocate (higher courts criminal proceedings); head of serious crime team. VHCC Panel supervisor and advocate. Specialises in fraud, corporate crime and very high profile crime. Gary heads up a large and specialist team that undertakes work on a national and international basis. Notable cases: R v B (the Wimbledon footballer who, with John Terry and others, was charged with affray and other matters); R v ADL (the Goldman Saachs Case, theft and money laundering); R v M & S (Large scale theft from Catholic School); London City Bond (fraud); Bond Warehouse (fraud); R v M and others (fraud and confiscation); R v RS (fraud); R v L and another (special compliance offences fraud); R v W and C and others (fraud); R v E and others (passport fraud); R v L and others (fraud and confiscation); R v C (House of Lords) (fraud); MTIC (frauds); R v W and others (murder); R v H and other (murder); R v S (murder); R v Mills and R v Poole (Court of Appeal and House of Lords) (murder); R v H (murder); R v N (firearms); R v S (poisoning); R v B and others (drug importation); R v J & M (drug importation).

Career

Trained Robert Blackford & Co; qualified 1991; partner 1992; partner Blackfords LLP 2007 to date.

Member

Law Society; SAHCA; LCCSA; Serious Fraud Association; VHCC appeal committee/CCU; Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association.

Education

College of Law, London.

Leisure

Golf, rugby, football.

Practice Areas

Crime - corporate; Crime - general; Fraud

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