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Furnival Chambers is regarded as one of the country’s leading criminal and white-collar sets offering an impressive and high quality list of advocates and advisors. Members specialise across practice areas of serious and organised crime, financial crime, bribery and corruption, gross negligence manslaughter, regulatory/professional discipline, asset forfeiture and extradition. Chambers’ reputation is best exemplified by involvement in most of the recent major criminal and white-collar trials to be heard from fraud to murder, and from gross negligence manslaughter to extradition. The quality of service extends to its progressive clerking team led by a senior clerk with a justified reputation for efficiency and integrity. Individuals, professionals and corporate clients instruct chambers either through solicitors, professional advisers, or on a public direct access basis.

The set: Members of Chambers are renowned for appearing in high-profile criminal and white-collar cases, both for the defence and the prosecution. They appear in the Crown Court, Divisional Court, Court of Appeal, Privy Council and Supreme Court, as well as the European Court of Human Rights and before Regulatory/Disciplinary panels. Members undertake high-profile work on behalf of or against the Financial Conduct Authority, HM Revenue and Customs, the Serious Fraud Office, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Football Association and other sports and disciplinary/regulatory bodies. Members also regularly advise corporates on issues concerning the Bribery Act 2010.

Furnival is a ‘go to set’ for high-profile, complex cases and those involving novel law including defending in the first ‘Judge alone trial’; the first Bribery Act prosecution; the first Modern Slavery trial (and most of the subsequent significant cases under MSA); and the first successful FGM trial (both prosecution and defence). Members have experience in cold cases and Criminal Case Review Commission applications and also conduct cases in the Commonwealth and other jurisdictions (including the Caribbean).

Work undertaken: Chambers enjoys particular expertise in the following fields:

Corporate and financial crime: Chambers offers considerable experience in all areas of corporate and financial (white-collar) crime in both UK and international jurisdictions. Members advise companies and national newspapers on issues arising out of the Bribery & Corruption Act 2010; Members are instructed on some of the largest high value fraud and asset forfeiture cases in recent years including Operation Yuletide (a merchant banker assisting in the laundering of €100m defrauded from a Dutch shipbuilding company), Operation Banjax (£100m VAT fraud), Operation Stagecoach (£7m rare earth metal boiler room), bribery allegations within the building and construction industry (Polycarpou). Other recent high profile frauds have included UBS Rogue Trader Case (Adoboli), Goldman Sachs (Wilkins), and multi-million carbon credit fraud (R-v-H) as well as the first professional cricket ‘spot fixing’ case. Members experience includes all forms of fraud, MTIC/VAT tribunal hearings, market abuse including insider dealing and rate manipulation, through to asset recovery, forfeiture, restraint and confiscation. Members are also experienced in providing specialist advisory services to clients, both individual and corporate both generally (in relation to compliance) and in connection to specific investigations. Members have been retained to advise and act for and against the SFO, FCA (FSA), CPS, UKBA, the police, HMRC and public companies and high-net worth individuals in international / multi-jurisdictional proceedings, recently including global dividend-arbitrage and withholding tax reclaim investigations and the Alstom bribery investigation.

Serious and organised crime: Chambers has long been instructed in top-end work at trial and appellate levels including R-v-Twomey, the first Judge alone trial, the first post-Jogee murder appeals, the News International phone hacking (Operation Elvedon) trials, the Hatton Garden heist, the ‘Pentonville murder’ trial, the Jodie Chesney murder, the Stephen Lawrence murder, the murder of ‘Baby P’, the ‘Witchcraft murder’ Ife -the successful defence of those tried for the death of a family member following ‘botched exorcism’, the ‘Gypsy Slavery’ cases, Operation Fort (Panorama featured) – one of largest MSA prosecutions, as well as the Jonty Bravery case and the Sally Challen appeal, to name but a few.

Terrorism: Members have appeared in terrorism trials for decades including the Gloucester shoe bomber, the first Al Qa’eda funding prosecution post 9/11, the Afghan Stansted hijacking, the ‘Ricin’ conspiracy, a number of recent Al Qa’eda and Syria-related cases, together with significant IRA trials in the past. As well as trials, members are also instructed in collateral proceedings such as Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs).

Sexual offences: Members have appeared in Operation Yewtree cases, Operation Goldfinch (Welsh Children’s Home Child Abuse cases); the Aylesbury & Oxford sex ring case, the prosecution of Rolf Harris, the prosecution of the hairdresser convicted of trying to infect ten men he met on Grindr with HIV as well as many serial rapist cases including the ‘West End mini cab rapist’, the M25 rapist, the Steve Cook trial, the Grime artist Solo 45 multiple rape trial and cases of historical rape and sexual abuse. Individuals have been recognised for their skills in this area, including the recent ‘Barrister of the Year’ award for the work done defending Liam Allen.

Extradition: Members of the team are at the forefront of this specialised area of law and have appeared in a significant number of ground-breaking cases. They advise and represent individuals and foreign governments in extradition proceedings at first instance, before the High Court, the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Members are instructed in the highest profile extradition cases of the day including the United States Government request for the extradition of Julian Assange, and the Government of India’s request for ‘diamondaire’ businessman Nirav Modi over alleged $1bn fraud. Members of the team also provide advice to individuals who are (or may be) subject to Red Notices and are published authors on authoritative texts, including: “A Practical Guide to Interpol and Red Notices” published by Bloomsbury. Recent instructions include US Government v Julian Assange, Government of India v Nirav Modi, Government of India v Singh – re conspiracy to murder Indian politicians and Government of Hungary v Orsos. Members were also involved in the leading authority: Government of the United States of America v Yolanda Cleveland [2019] 1 W.L.R. 4392 – on the law with regard to dual criminality.

Regulatory and disciplinary: Chambers has a highly regarded regulatory team who provide exceptional representation for the financial industry, the professions, and sports people / staff, before a wide range of disciplinary tribunals. Chambers has vast experience in both acting for and dealing with regulatory and disciplinary proceedings before the SRA, GMC, GDC, GOC, NMC, the HCPC (including the Morecambe Bay Healthcare Trust case, concerning alleged misconduct of midwives leading to the death of a baby and endangerment of another’s life.) Chambers handles all nature of hybrid and related criminal proceedings before the Crown Court, Coroner’s Court (including the London Bridge Inquest), public inquiries and mental health review tribunals. Recent successes include the defence of two prison officers charged with gross negligence manslaughter, following the suicide of a vulnerable inmate. Members also appear before Football Association and other sports regulatory authorities, both for the authorities and individuals / teams concerned.

Clerking and practice support:  Chambers’ practice areas benefit from an experienced clerking team, led by senior clerk, Stephen Ball. The clerks are highly regarded, approachable and dedicated and will offer a range of counsel of appropriate experience for the work concerned.

Barrister Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Lisa Bald	Lisa’s practice covers the full spectrum of serious crime – allegations of…	View Profile
	Charlotte Bellamy	Called 2017	View Profile
	Richard Bendall	Specialist practice areas: serious crime, criminal/civil fraud, serious sexual offences, asset forfeiture,…	View Profile
	Oliver Blunt	Entirely defence-based practice specialising in murder, terrorism, fraud and drugs cases. Murder…	View Profile
	Iwona Boesche	Called 2015	View Profile
	Terence Boulter	Called 1986	View Profile
	Andrew Bousfield	Called 2004	View Profile
	David Brock	Called 1984	View Profile
	Hannah Burton	Barrister	View Profile
	Caroline Carberry	Caroline has a high profile practice and is particularly known for her…	View Profile
	Jeremy Carter-manning	Recent cases: The Iraq War Crimes Court Martial, advising a potential defendant…	View Profile
	Darryl Cherrett	Called 2004	View Profile
	Giles Cockings	Giles Cockings QC is a well-respected Silk in Fraud and Serious Crime.…	View Profile
	Ross Cohen	Called 2001	View Profile
	Gino Connor	Violent crime: defended and represented the prosecutions in murder cases, including leading…	View Profile
	Rhiannon Crimmins	Called 1999	View Profile
	Tim Devlin	Tim Devlin is regularly instructed by the Crown on his own or…	View Profile
	Oliver Doherty	Well-regarded advocate with a quickly developing criminal and regulatory practice. Accepts instructions…	View Profile
	David Durose QC	David Durose Q.C. has a criminal practice which largely focuses on prosecuting…	View Profile
	Sadaf Etemadi	Called 2014	View Profile
	Kemi Fapohunda	Exclusively criminal practice in both defence and prosecution, though mainly defence work.…	View Profile
	Julia Farrant	Called 2010	View Profile
	Sahara Fergus-Simms	Called 2015	View Profile
	Chloe Fordham	Instructed in the Crown Court and Magistrates’ Court for both prosecution and…	View Profile
	Timothy Forster	Priority interests: drugs importation, serious fraud, firearms, sexual offences (including those involving…	View Profile
	Lisa Freeman	Acts for prosecution authorities (SFO, FCA, CPS, UKBA), companies, court appointed receivers,…	View Profile
	Ben Gordon	Since joining Furnival chambers as a first-six pupil in 2006, Ben has…	View Profile
	Edmund Gross	Called 2016	View Profile
	Keith Hadrill	Keith’s practice encompasses serious and complex fraud, substantial drug importation and supply…	View Profile
	Craig Harris	Call: 2006 Direct Access Qualified Ranked as a leading junior by The Legal…	View Profile
	Caroline Haughey	Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018 Caroline continues to be instructed in the…	View Profile
	Roy Headlam	Priority interests: cases of fraud with numerous defendants, firearms, violent crime, drugs…	View Profile
	Nicholas Hearn	Nicholas is a criminal barrister who enjoys complementary practices in extradition and…	View Profile
	Richard Hearnden	Specialist practice areas: serious crime, criminal/civil fraud, serious sexual offences, regulation/compliance, health…	View Profile
	Tulay Hodge	Called 2014	View Profile
	Michael Holland	Called 1984 / Silk 2006	View Profile
	Frida Hussain	Instructed as a leading junior as well as being led by Queens…	View Profile
	Andrew Jordan	Specialist practice areas: serious crime, criminal/civil fraud, regulation/compliance, asset forfeiture, immigration.	View Profile
	John Kearney	Criminal practitioner with specialist knowledge of police operations and procedures. Particularly experienced…	View Profile
	Mandisa Knights	Called 2013	View Profile
	Michael Latham	Michael Latham has a particular interest in fraud and financial crime. Has…	View Profile
	Laban Leake	Priority interests are drugs and confiscation, white-collar fraud and money laundering, and…	View Profile
	Harry MacDonald	Call:2010	View Profile
	Parveen Mansoor	Called 1996	View Profile
	Nicholas Mather	Acts alone and as a junior for both prosecution and defence in…	View Profile
	Nigel May	Exclusively criminal practice for over 20 years. Defence comprises the majority of…	View Profile
	Philippa McAtasney	Called 1985 / Silk 2006	View Profile
	Ronan McCann	Called 2010	View Profile
	Chris Meredith	Specialist practice areas: serious crime, criminal/civil fraud, asset forfeiture, inquests and public…	View Profile
	Adam Morgan	Called 1996	View Profile
	Stephen Moses	All areas of criminal defence work undertaken. Stephen has led a number…	View Profile
	Charlotte O'Connor	Called 1999	View Profile
	Sally O'Neill	Sally O’Neill QC has been consistently ranked as a leading Silk in crime…	View Profile
	Rishy Panesar	Called 2004	View Profile
	Alexia Power	Alexia is a leading junior and known as an exceptional jury advocate…	View Profile
	Ms Shannon Revel	Called 2014	View Profile
	Nicola Shannon	Nicola Shannon has a successful Leading Junior practice in Crime, both prosecuting…	View Profile
	Neerja Sharma	Called 1998	View Profile
	Sophie Sharpe	called 2014	View Profile
	Kane Sharpe	Called 2017	View Profile
	Charlie Sherrard QC	Recognised and ranked in Crime & Financial Crime, Charlie’s practice & name…	View Profile
	Lefi Siatta	Called 1992	View Profile
	Trevor Siddle	Called 1991	View Profile
	Julia Smart	Called 1993 / Silk 2019	View Profile
	Joel Smith	Practises in crime and extradition, both defending and prosecuting. Criminal practice involves…	View Profile
	Emma Smith	Specialist practice areas: serious crime, criminal/civil fraud, serious sexual offences. Emma Smith…	View Profile
	Yusuf Solley	Called 2009	View Profile
	Joanna Staples	Call: 2003	View Profile
	Jon Swain	Specialises in criminal law, especially large scale drugs cases, white-collar fraud and…	View Profile
	Lucy Tapper	Barrister called 2002	View Profile
	Andrew Taylor	Called 2015	View Profile
	Christopher Waymont	Called 2014	View Profile
	Julian Winship	In the last three years, Julian has been engaged in seven murder…	View Profile
	Charlotte Yarrow	Called 1999	View Profile