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Mark Alexander Balysz KC
Position
Mark Balysz is one of the country’s leading criminal and inquest advocates, specialising in corporate and individual manslaughter, health and safety, environmental prosecutions, trading offences and financial crime. Mark is a regular guest lecturer in health and safety on the Construction Law and Dispute Resolution Masters degree at King’s College, London University.
Career
Qualified 1995; Gray’s Inn. Commenced career at Chambers of Ron Thwaites QC, 10 King’s Bench Walk. Developed a practice defending those accused of serious and organised crime including complex fraud, drugs supply conspiracies and murder. The first of his 12 murder cases he received at five years call and at only nine years call was a leading junior securing an acquittal after a four month drugs conspiracy trial. Moved to the Chambers of Nicholas Haggan QC in 2001 where he established his regulatory practice, bringing him to the attention of his regulatory peers and an invitation to join Crown Office Chambers in 2010.
Languages
Polish.
Memberships
Health and Safety Lawyers Association; Criminal Bar Association.
Leisure
Cycling.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Health and safety
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Mark Balysz KC –Crown Office Chambers ‘He has been one of the leading and most effective advocates in this area for many years – passionate about his clients and this comes across in his advocacy.’
Sought out by high-profile individual directors and managers, through to multi-billion pound corporations, the set at Crown Office Chambers continues to be a pre-eminent set for a whole array of high profile health and safety matters, including corporate and individual manslaughter, prosecutions under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and appeals against improvement and prohibitions notices. John Cooper KC, James Ageros KC, and Lucy Wright, who joined the set from Lincoln House Chambers in November 2022, were all instructed in a trial relating to a Section 3 and Section 37 Health and Safety at Work Act case concerning five fatalities at a recycling centre in Birmingham. Simon Antrobus KC recently successfully defended a managing director in relation to four charges of manslaughter, and Mark Balysz KC is defending a paramedic at trial charged with gross negligence manslaughter.