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Harry Bentley

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Position

Harry’s areas of practice are Regulatory law, Professional Discipline and Crime. His experience in Regulatory law ranges from defending individuals in proceedings brought by the Environment Agency to defending companies charged under animal welfare regulations. In professional disciplinary proceedings he both presents and defends. He has significant experience presenting on behalf of Professional regulators such as the National College of Teaching and Leadership (as it was then) and has presented on behalf of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He has also defended in Teaching Regulation Agency proceedings as well as having been regularly instructed on behalf of the Royal College of Nursing in Nursing and Midwifery Council proceedings.

He has been involved in many high profile, complex and serious prosecutions both as both leading and junior counsel. His experience in Crime includes multi-handed murder trials, terrorism, investment fraud, drug importation, cheating the revenue and serious sexual offences. He has particular experience in conspiracy allegations ranging from conspiracies to murder, steal museum artefacts, control prostitution or evade immigration controls through to conspiracies to import industrial amounts of cocaine. He is currently involved in a number of cases arising from Operation Emma’s exploit of the EncroChat telecommunications system.

Career

Year of Call 2007

Memberships

• Association of Commonwealth Lawyers
• Criminal Bar Association
• Fraud Lawyers Association