51 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, LONDON, WC2A 3LZ, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7430 2277
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7430 1101
- DX:
- 37981 KINGSWAY
- Web:
- www.bcl.com
- Email:
Harry Travers
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7430 2277
- Email:
Work Department
Business crime and regulation; commercial litigation.
Position
Partner specialising in business crime and regulation, both criminal and civil. Involved for many years in numerous high-profile commercial fraud prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office, including Maxwell, BCCI and, more recently, Torex plc and BAe, as well as numerous multimillion-pound civil claims involving allegations of fraud/misfeasance. Also acts in health and safety/corporate manslaughter investigations and prosecutions.
Career
Called to the bar 1986; trained at Berwin Leighton; qualified as a solicitor 1990; Berwin Leighton tax and trusts department specialising in anti-avoidance litigation and trusts 1987-91; BCL Burton Copeland 1991-95; partner 1995 to date. Publications of note: co-author of ‘Criminal Investigation Powers’ (response from the Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to the consultation document ‘Criminal Investigation Powers: A Technical Consultation Document issued by HM Revenue & Customs’); co-author of the chapter on direct tax fraud in the Lexis Nexis Butterworths publication entitled ‘Fraud: Law, Practice & Procedure’. Regular lecturer on fraud and corruption (lectures provided on BCL’s website).
Languages
Fluent French, some Spanish.
Member
Committee member of Tax Investigations Practitioners Group of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; International Bar Association; Health and Safety Lawyers’ Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
Education
Manchester Grammar School; St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1985 BA; 1987 BCL).
Leisure
Manchester United, golf, jazz.
Practice Areas
Crime - corporate; Fraud; Health and safety