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Kevin Barry

Work Department

36 Crime

Position

Kevin Barry is a barrister specialising in consumer and trading standards law, regulatory, cybercrime and complex and serious crime matters.

He is a popular choice to defend and prosecute in complicated consumer and criminal cases, representing private individuals, companies and local authorities. He is regarded as a tenacious and convincing advocate who fights challenging and occasionally unattractive cases with commitment and resolve.

Kevin is well known among those that instruct him for his thorough preparation, excellent client skills and his commercial and practical approach in consumer and regulatory cases. He is well regarded for his incisive and effective cross–examination, particularly where technical and expert evidence is involved. He is at ease in the Court of Appeal, regularly appearing in cases involving complex factual and legal points.

He is a Level 4 CPS prosecutor (the top grade). He has prosecuted and defended in numerous homicide cases, both leading and as a led junior.

Kevin Barry is a member of the Cybercrime team. He is regularly instructed in some of the most complex (and interesting) cybercrime case.

His expertise have developed over the past few years since he was instructed for the defence in the very high–profile computer–hacking case of R v Ackroyd and Others (Southwark Crown Court 2013). This case involved members of the Lulzsec / Anonymous ‘hacktivist’ groups, who were alleged to have caused in excess of £30 million of loss and damage to international corporations such as News International and Sony, and UK and US state agencies including the CIA.

Kevin has continued to develop his specialist expertise in the field of cybercrime, prosecuting and defending in a string of the most complex cybercrime cases across the country over the last few years. He recently defended in the case of R v Kane Gamble (Old Bailey 2018), who was accused of ‘cyberterrorising’ several very senior figures in the US state security apparatus, including the Director of the CIA and the Dep. Director of the FBI.

Work undertaken:

Consumer
Criminal Enforcement, including under Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, and the Consumer Rights Act 2015
Civil Enforcement, including under the Enterprise Act 2002
Intellectual Property
Consumer Contracts
Product Safety / General Product Safety Regulations 2005
Pricing
Fraud and money Laundering
Age Restricted Sales
Food Standards and Labelling
Environmental trading Standards

Crime
Cybercrime
Homicide
Complex Fraud
Drug Importation
Rape and child sex cases
Kidnap
Intellectual Property Offences
Death by driving
People Trafficking
Serious Violence
Money Laundering
Confiscation

Career

Called 1997 Lincoln’s Inn; appointed CPS Grade 3 prosecutor 2006; appointed CPS Level 4 prosecutor and Specialist Rape Panel 2012.

Contributing Editor: Consumer & Trading Standards – Law and Practice (5th Ed. 2017, Jordans).
Contributing Editor: Modern Financial Regulation (2013, Jordans).

Areas of experience:
Cybercrime
Consumer
Judicial Review
Professional Misconduct & Disciplinary
Financial Crime
Homicide
Restraint of Trade and Confidentiality
Health and Safety

Memberships

Lincoln’s Inn; Cybercrime Practitioners Association; Criminal Bar Association; Midland and South-Eastern Circuits; associate member Trading Standards Institute; Direct Public Access qualified.

Education

Birmingham University (LLB); Inns of Court School of Law, London (BVC).