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Tim Green KC KC

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Position

Tim Green has been recognised by both Chambers UK and Legal 500 for 13 years as one of the Bar’s outstanding advocates in regulatory crime and corporate defence work. His practice includes investigations into companies and their officers arising from: (1) death or severe injury at work; (2) inquests and inquiries; (3) complex and high value financial wrongdoing. Clients include most of the ranked law firms in these fields, as well as multi-national manufacturers, financial institutions, company officers, off-shore regulators and governments.

Career

Tim is an exceptional trial advocate with extensive experience before juries and appellate courts. He has been instructed for the defence in the largest ever corporate manslaughter investigation and over fifty investigations, public inquiries and inquests arising from death or severe injury at work including three recent appellate cases HSE v Evergreen, HSE v John Henry, ESFRS v St Michael’s Hospice. Tim has particular experience of workplace investigations in the following sectors: construction, healthcare, residential and social care, waste, maritime, technology, defence, and manufacturing. Since Tim’s success in the leading environmental waste authority of EA v Thorn International Limited, he has been widely acknowledged as an expert in environmental law and regularly advises large private and public undertakings on their response to EA investigations, civil undertakings, POCA and has experience bringing private prosecutions for Water Utilities. Tim’s inquiry and inquest work includes representing a leading insulation manufacturer in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the HSE in the Covid Inquiry, as well as numerous A2 and jury inquests arising from deaths at work, suicide, and deaths in custody. Recent financial instructions include a complex and large scale off-shore tax fraud, money laundering and perjury with simultaneous civil, criminal, POCA and judicial review proceedings (Operation B); an independent review of suspicions of fraud/bribery in a large mining company; the leading pensions enforcement appellate authority of TpR v Workchain; FCA in perimeter enforcement; an independent review of bribery/fraud allegations for the DPP of Grand Cayman arising from judicial review.

Publications

Co-edits “The Proceeds of Crime” OUP; Contributor to Lexis Nexis Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Regulation.

Memberships

Financial Services Lawyers Association; Fraud Lawyers Association; Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association; Health and Safety Lawyer’s Association; UK Environmental Lawyers Association; Midland Circuit; Attorney General’s A Panel of regulatory counsel (as a junior).