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Paul Humpherson

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Position

aul’s practice incorporates both courtroom advocacy in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal, and more academic engagement with the law through his work as a university law tutor and his current secondment to the Law Commission. He also has considerable practical experience in financial crime and regulation.

Paul is regularly instructed to prosecute and defend in Crown Court cases involving serious violence, sexual offences, theft and fraud. He has recently appeared successfully in a number of reported criminal appeals in both the Court of Appeal and the High Court.

Paul has diverse experience of financial crime and regulation, having undertaken secondments with the Financial Conduct Authority, Serious Fraud Office, Stephen Platt Associates LLP (a financial regulation and compliance consultancy based in the Channel Islands), WilmerHale (a City law firm), and the Welfare, Rural and Health Division of the Crown Prosecution Service (where he prosecuted benefit fraud and regulatory offences).

Career

Called 2010. Crown Prosecution Service Prosecutor (Grade 2).

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association.

Education

University of Oxford, BA (Hons), Jurisprudence; University of Oxford, MSc, Criminology and Criminal Justice.