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Mr Shane Collery KC

0207 520 6000 shane.collery@19rlc.co.uk View profile

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Shane Collery brings a highly unusual combination of skills and understanding of commercial work to a varied and extensive practice in serious organised crime, serious fraud and tax tribunal litigation.  He was a City of London UK Equities trader before attending University, experienced commercial work for 2 years at Slaughter and May under a quasi-training contract and more recently attained a Master in Taxation from the School of Advanced Legal Studies. Accordingly, he combines the skills and rigour of someone with formal training in tax, with the forensic skills of a high-level criminal bar practitioner with years of experience in fraud and serious organised crime cases

His skills and diligence have been recognised by his numerous appointments as Standing Counsel to five Government departments or agencies since 2002. Most recently in October 2017 he was appointed as Standing Counsel to the Insolvency Service advising upon and prosecuting the most serious criminal matters investigated by that agency.

He has 25 years of high level experience of large organised crime cases involving Class A drugs, firearms and the violence that goes with large scale drug trafficking and at the same time in large fraud cases in particular those with a tax element. He is becoming increasingly involved in the investigation of allegations of bribery and misconduct in public office at Council level and in relation to a Parliamentary election.

Most recently in December 2019,  he was appointed to the Advisory group for the Home Office Serious Organised Crime review.

He has significant experience in advising on the criminal liability aspects of tax avoidance schemes including the various incentive schemes in the UK for Films. This includes the pre January 2007 schemes and the later Film Production Company Film Tax Relief and Credit scheme under the Corporation Taxes Act 2009.

Languages

Some Spanish

Memberships

South Eastern Circuit
Lincoln’s Inn
Criminal Bar Association

Publications of note: CPS Guidance on VAT offences Contributing Editor to Sprenger on Deferred Prosecution Agreements: The law and practice of negotiated corporate criminal penalties. (2014 Sweet and Maxwell).

Education

Masters in Taxation from School of Advanced Studies at London University in 2012
Bar Finals at the Council for Legal Education (1988)
LBB Nottingham University (1987)

Leisure

Watching rugby, my playing days are, my wife tells me, now behind me. I do wonder if I could play one more season…. Clay pigeon shooting.