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Gary Summers
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Position
Gary Summers is recognised as a specialist in serious fraud, serious crime and confiscation, with particular focus on off-shore, insolvency, diversion, intellectual property, money laundering and cyber-crime matters. He is the joint editor of ‘Fraud, Law, Practice and Procedure’ (Lexis Nexis 2004) Gary has been published extensively on money laundering, regulation in the workplace and health and safety issues, and regularly lectures in the UK, Switzerland and the Far East. He is a registered legal practitioner on the Isle of Man and Liechtenstein and is called to the bar and an external member of the bar library in Ireland. Featured in ‘Legal Experts’, he is ranked as a leading junior in fraud in the ‘Legal 500’ (2006/7/8 edition) and in ‘Chambers and Partners’ (2006/7/8 edition) where he is named as one of the ‘leaders of the bar’ and rated as one of the top three leading juniors in the UK, described as ‘the epitome of good counsel’ who ‘understands the pressures on a client and alleviates them accordingly with a sensitive approach and an effective advocacy style’. Gary is an acknowledged expert in asset confiscation. He appeared in the landmark human rights challenge to the confiscation regime in Rezvi & others (2001)and in Barnham 2003 (an appeal to the Court of Appeal and later the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning ‘hidden assets’. Gary has also advised many organisations over the last 10 years on regulatory and compliance matters, including policy and procedural issues. Recent sporting clients have been drawn from football and horse racing, with corporate clients including PLCs in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications and music industry. Having undertaken the necessary training in 2009, Gary is on the panel of approved counsel to appear before the General Medical Council and has consequently been instructed in a number of matters.
Career
Called 1985; Gray’s Inn. Publications include: joint editor Fraud Law Pratice and Procedure (Lexis Nexis) 2004-09; joint author Chapter 13 Cybercrime. He has written articles and regularly lectures internationally on corporate criminal liability, money laundering; offshore countries and their structures; corporate manslaughter.
Member
Criminal Bar Association.
Education
University of East London (BA (Hons); Maxwell Law Prize.
Practice Areas
Crime - corporate; Crime - general; Fraud: crime
