
25 Bedford Row
England
Barristers

Justin Rivett
- Phone020 7067 1500
- Email[email protected]
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Position
Justin has specialised in criminal defence for over 30 years. He has a broad range of experience, representing defendants charged with the most serious offences, as leading Junior and junior alone, including but not exclusively, large scale frauds; more often than not involving professional clients. He also has a wide range of experience of most other serious offences and in particular, drug importation and supply, large scale Immigration offences, serious offences of violence.
Justin has considerable experience in confiscation proceedings and and money laundering cases. He has appeared in the Court of Appeal on numerous occasions, as well as representing defendants in a number of high profile cases, including one of the largest money laundering cases in the UK. He has recently been instructed in a number of multi handed, fraud, immigration and tax conspiracies prosecuted by the SFO, Home office and HMRC.
Career
Prior to coming to Chambers, Justin was a partner in a large solicitors' firm specialising in criminal defence and is therefore adept at handling the strategy, management and preparation of complex cases from the outset and as such is used to dealing with lay clients. Called 1988.
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Fraud Lawyers Association
Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) committee member
LAPG representative on the Law Society Crime Practitioners Group
Education
1987: Inns of Court School of Law
1988: Called to the Bar, Middle Temple
1990-93: 1 Crown Office Row, Temple
1993/97: In house Counsel for Cooper Carter Claremont solicitors
1997: Qualified as a solicitor joined Warrens Law (retained status of non-practising barrister)
1997: Head of the Crime Department and the Principal Crown Court advocate.
2017: Reverted back to full-time barrister
2018: Joined 25 Bedford Row