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Christian Jowett
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Christian’s core specialisms lie in fraud, environmental and regulatory law (and the interface between their criminal and civil elements), and also in administrative law (focused on immigration and asylum law and environmental law).
Christian’s criminal practice focuses on fraud, environmental and regulatory law. With a multi-disciplinary background, Christian has a particular interest in subsidiary confiscation and asset recovery under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the related areas of property and chancery law with which it interacts, including matrimonial and cohabitee finance, inheritance, and insolvency. His practice is best represented by R v Morgan [2013] EWCA Crim. 1307, [2014] 1 All E.R. 1208, [2014] Env.L.R. 5, [2013] Lloyd’s Rep FC 655, an appeal arising from an environmental prosecution, which concerned the interface between criminal confiscation, environmental regulation, landfill tax and the effect of Article 1, Protocol 1 to the ECHR. He appears not only in the criminal courts in relation to such matters, but also the County Court, High Court, and related Tribunals. He also writes, blogs and lectures on the interface between criminal confiscation and other areas of law. He is recommended in the Legal 500 2017 for his criminal law practice as Tier 1.
Christian’s distinct public law practice is immigration and environmental law based. A longstanding member of the Wales Working Party of the UK Environmental Law Association, Christian was elected to its National Council in 2017 with special responsibility for Wales. An experienced practitioner in all aspects of Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights law, he regularly appears before the High Court, and before both tiers of the Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber).
Career
Call: 1999
Memberships
- Criminal Bar Association
- Proceeds of Crime Lawyers’ Association
- Revenue Bar Association
- UK Environmental Law Association (member of the sub-committee of the Wales Working Party)
- Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
Education
- 1999-2000: LL.M. (Merit) University College London
- 1998-1999: Bar Vocational Course; Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent)
- 1995-1998: LL.B. (Hons) (IIi) University College London
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Wales and Chester Circuit > Business and regulatory crime (including health and safety)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Christian Jowett –30 Park Place Chambers ‘His attention to detail is excellent. He has an ability to plough through a vast amount of material and pick out the salient points with ease. He is user friendly and a great advocate.’
Regional Bar > Wales and Chester Circuit > Administrative and public law (including civil liberties and human rights)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Christian Jowett – 30 Park Place Chambers ‘His attention to detail is excellent. He has an ability to plough through a vast amount of material and pick out the salient points with ease. He is user-friendly and a great advocate.’
30 Park Place Chambers is ‘an excellent set of chambers’ for public law work, with members regularly acting on behalf of government, public bodies, and claimants in high-profile cases. The ‘tireless’ David Hughes specialises in civil actions against the police, including judicial reviews of police decisions to caution and to refer cases to the CPS, as well as data protection claims against the police. Laura Shepherd is ‘tenacious and unflappable’ when representing local authorities and claimants in judicial review proceedings, particularly in relation to health and community care and education decisions. Rebecca Harrington also works with local authorities in the area of community care and often advises on issues pertaining to the interaction of English and Welsh legislative provisions. Christian Jowett‘s broad expertise includes judicial reviews and statutory appeals, while Christian Howells is a public and constitutional law specialist regularly instructed on behalf of claimants, governments, local authorities, and health boards. He recently acted for the claimant in Counsel General for Wales v Secretary of State for Business, a judicial review of the UK Internal Market Act 2020, with the Counsel General seeking a declaration that the Act cannot impliedly limit the Senedd’s legislative competence.