Tim Clark KC > 23ES > London, England > Barrister Profile

Tim Clark KC

Position

Tim Clark KC is an experienced and highly sought-after criminal law specialist. As a KC, Tim is regularly instructed in multi-handed murder and serious fraud matters.

He is regularly in demand for cases of complexity and weight, including MTIC and corporate fraud.

He is also frequently instructed in a number of cases involving representing professionals charged with criminal offences, including solicitors and accountants.

Tim secured acquittals of murder in six consecutive murder trials as King’s Counsel, all of which occurred in 2018-19.

In 2020 Tim was briefed in several high profile multi-handed murders including R v Jamie Chandler, where he represented a 15-year-old accused of a double murder at a house party in Milton Keynes, he has also achieved an acquittal on all counts for a Romanian businessman in a two month multi-handed modern slavery trial.

In 2021 Tim continued to be involved in high profile multi-handed murders and received instructions to defend one of ten defendants (a chartered accountant) in Operation Centrum, involving alleged excise duty and VAT fraud involving a loss to the Revenue of at least £20m.

In 2022, Tim was instructed in two of the longest and most high profile multihanded murder trials that year.  He continued to receive private instructions to defend both in the Court of Appeal and in a rape trial in North Wales.

Prior to taking silk in 2017, Tim was instructed to prosecute Operations Kernow & Fustuscaro – complex multi-handed cash for crash matters.

He was also instructed to represent a number of solicitors charged with conveyancing fraud – all of whom were acquitted.

Prior to taking silk, Tim was instructed in over twenty murder trials as leading junior, junior or junior alone as well as in cases involving serious fraud and sexual offences.

Career

Called 1993; Inner Temple.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association; Surrey and South London Bar Mess; South-Eastern Circuit.

Education

Methodist College, Belfast; University of Bristol (LLB (Hons)).

Leisure

Reform Club.