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Richard Horwell QC
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Position
Richard Horwell’s practice encompasses all aspects of criminal law to the House of Lords in this jurisdiction and to Strasbourg in Europe with particular experience in commercial fraud, drug importations, terrorism and murder trials. Also tribunal work including GMC and RAC Motorsport. Pre 2006 his practice was necessarily prosecution led by virtue of his appointment to Treasury Counsel (1991). He was appointed Senior Treasury Counsel in 1996 (an appointment considered equivalent to Silk) and was appointed First Senior Treasury Counsel in 2002, a position he held until taking Silk in 2006; during which time he was often instructed to advise on the construction of statutes, sentencing and prosecution policy; consistently instructed in the most complex and high profile cases; and often advising on and representing the Crown in matters of national security. Since taking Silk he has successfully reversed the weight of his practice between defence and prosecution; his practice is now almost exclusively for the defence barring instructions from the Financial Services Authority. As a Silk his practice has centred on financial crime including pre-charge advice to companies and individuals who are the subject of investigations, as well as high profile criminal trials for the defence. During this time he has been instructed by BCL Burton Copeland, Clifford Chance, Corker Binning, Herbert Smith, Russell Jones & Walker, Slaughter and May and Field Fisher Waterhouse amongst others. He has particular experience and interest in Appellate work. He has been instructed in over 300 appeal cases, including Attorney General References. He has appeared in the consolidated appeals re ‘baby shaking’ and is currently instructed on behalf of Jeremy Bamber.
Career
Called 1976; appointed Treasury Counsel 1991; Senior Treasury Counsel 1996 – 2006; First Senior Treasury Counsel 2002 – 2006; appointed a Recorder 2004; Queen’s Counsel 2006.
