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Mr Simon Baker KC

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Position

Queen’s Counsel specialising in business and regulatory fraud, market abuse, money laundering and serious crime.

Recent high profile cases include: Post Office “Horizon” Appeals (representing the Post Office in the appeals and review arising out of the Horizon computer system); LIBOR (representing the head of the Tullett Prebon Yen OBS desk who was acuitted of conspiring to manipulate the LIBOR rate); Operation Hornet (representing the main defendant in the the very high profile HBoS trial charged with fraud and corruption valued at over £250m); iSOFT (representing the CEO of a FTSE250 company acquitted of market manipulation); Operation Picasso (successfully represented company director, as first defendant, acquitted of conspiracy to defraud in a multi-million pound carbon credit “boiler room” fraud); and R v M, C & T [2017] UKSC 58 (successfully representing the corporate defendant and main director in a multi-million pound Trading Standards prosecution stayed as an abuse of process, including in the interlocutory appeal to the Supreme Court on the applicability of s.92 of the Trade Marks Act to the “grey market”)

For further information visit www.2bedfordrow.co.uk.

Career

Called 1998 (Inner Temple)
Bencher of Inner Temple (2018)
Recorder (2019)
Queen’s Counsel (2021)

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association, Bar Council IT Panel, Fraud Lawyers Association, Lawyers for Liberty

Education

Leeds Grammar School, St Anne’s College, Oxford [MA (Oxon)]