Bark&co continues to act in large, high-profile criminal cases, following arrests for murder, money laundering, drugs importation, sexual offences, people smuggling, and firearms and terrorism offences. Our focus is on high-end work, much of it with an international dimension. We are also active in the fast-growing area of cyber crime, and advise individuals and companies facing investigations or criminal proceedings as a result of health and safety and environmental breaches.

Our track record includes the News of the World ‘phone hacking’ prosecution and subsequent computer hacking investigations; the Melanie Hall historical murder case; the case of cricket match fixing / conspiracy to pervert the course of justice involving former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns; the Clerkenwell ‘crime syndicate’ case; the Operation Yewtree sexual offences investigation; the landmark Agnes Taylor case, involving torture offences dating back to the Liberian civil war and the largest criminal case of its time; and the UK’s largest ever burglary case (carried out by an international criminal gang against a series of celebrities in December 2019).

Further recent highlights have included acting for an individual charged under the National Security Act with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service, and with foreign interference; acting for a high-net-worth individual in relation to counter-terrorism investigations concerning the funding of terrorism in Russia; and acting for a high-profile individual under investigation for alleged historic sexual offences – as well as assisting clients in international drugs supply, violent crime, trafficking, firearms, and theft matters.