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Rupert Bowers KC’s expertise as one of the country’s leading barristers in financial crime and in challenging search warrants, and the seizure of property and information, has been noted in the practitioner guides for over a decade.

He has been instructed in some of the most well-known cases of recent times, including representing Lord Hanningfield in the Parliamentary expenses case, Vincent Coggins in the first EncroChat case, about whom a BBC Panorama documentary was later made, and Katrin Ivanova, one of a number of Bulgarian nationals accused of spying for Russia.

Rupert is renowned for his ability to take unusual and difficult cases that overlap criminal and civil law, and consequently he has a broad practice covering financial crime, asset freezing, private prosecutions, judicial review, extradition, data protection and information rights, espionage and terrorist offences, contempt of court, tortious claims for malicious prosecution and misfeasance, and sports law.

Over the years Rupert has represented several high-profile individuals and entities, including Harry Redknapp, Jermain Defoe, George Galloway, West Ham Utd, James Tomkins, Ben Thatcher, and Dr Edward Wojakovski.

Called: 1995; Gray’s Inn Year of Silk: 2015

BA Hons Psychology – University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Oundle School

Author, or a contributing author of the following:

Information Rights: A Practitioner’s Guide to Data Protection, Freedom of Information and other Information Rights (Bloomsbury) (2023) Human Rights in Criminal Law (Bloomsbury) (2023) Blackstone’s Guide to the Terrorism Act 2006 (OUP) (2006)