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Miles Bennett

Miles Bennett

Miles has specialised for the last 20 years in consumer Law (criminal, regulatory and advisory) trade mark infringement, copyright theft, health and safety and inquests. As well as acting as leading junior counsel in large-scale consumer frauds he regularly appears in case stated, judicial review proceedings and the Court of Appeal in complex appellate work. Miles prosecutes for the OFT, numerous local authorities nationwide and private prosecution organisations such as FACT. Miles was leading junior counsel instructed on behalf of the OFT to prosecute the first ever Pyramid Promotional Scheme case in the UK under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPUTR’s) The case involved 11 defendants and a scheme involving thousands of participants in the South West of England. The scheme collapsed with losses of £21m. Miles defends major Plc’s in the retail sector, (in particular the supermarket sector) companies, directors and individuals. Miles was junior defence Counsel in R (Birmingham CC) v Tesco Stores Ltd a case involving the national prosecution of a major retailer over multi-million pound allegations of misleading commercial practices in the promotion and sale of strawberries. Miles is a contributing editor in Kirk and Lewin’s ‘Pink Book’, one of the leading practitioner text books on Consumer Law and is a regular speaker at the annual TSI conference. Miles has recently appeared as junior defence counsel in one of the few prosecutions for corporate manslaughter. He regularly appears at inquests and was recently instructed for a project managing company at an inquest into the deaths of four construction workers at Great Yarmouth.
Michael Brompton

Michael Brompton

Prosecutes and defends in financial crime and related areas. His specialist fields include revenue fraud, insider trading and investment fraud, money laundering, bribery, confiscation and asset forfeiture. Formerly Standing Counsel to H.M. Customs and Excise, he has appeared in numerous high -profile cases and is prominent in the field of VAT fraud having appeared in many of the major cases of the past decade. His recent or pending cases include: the SFO prosecution of Sweete PLC for an offence of bribery in the Middle East; confiscation proceedings in HMRC Operation Vaulter; a high-profile private prosecution by a UK insurance company; the criminal investigation of an alleged tax avoidance scheme; a major money laundering prosecution (R v Adams & Ors.) and an FCA investment fraud (R v Bhandari & Ors.) He has lectured on tax and other serious fraud including LexisNexis webinars.
Jonathan Caplan

Jonathan Caplan

Barrister advising and representing companies and individuals in the UK and abroad (particularly in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and the Gulf) on a wide range of issues, including corporate liability, regulatory matters, criminal and civil fraud, bribery, insider trading, cartels, money laundering, health and safety, and environmental issues. His corporate criminal work has included representing P&O Ferries (Zeebrugge disaster), Great Western Trains (Southall crash), Balfour Beatty (Hatfield derailment) and Alton Towers Theme Park (noise nuisance prosecution). He has appeared in many of the leading serious fraud cases of recent years, including Guinness, Blue Arrow, Leeson/Barings Bank, Maxwell and Versailles. He has advised in several international corruption investigations and in a recent major price-fixing case involving the drugs industry. He has acted for regulators and prosecuting authorities (both in the UK and abroad) as well as for the defence of private clients. Outside the UK, he has regularly appeared for clients in the courts of Hong Kong and Singapore. He also advises and acts in media and entertainment cases for national newspapers, television companies and well-known individuals, specialising in content, regulation, contempt, defamation, confidentiality and privacy. Also representing Associated Newspapers Limited, its editors and journalists in the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press. He is an adjudicator for the Dubai Media Free Zone Authority. He has just concluded the trial at the Old Bailey of two defendants charged with assisting Chinese intelligence service under the National Security Act 2023.
Julian Christopher

Julian Christopher

A criminal practitioner with considerable experience in defending and prosecuting a wide range of general crime, with a particular emphasis on tax fraud; he has also applied the same analytical and advocacy skills to civil proceedings for fraud, the confiscation of the proceeds of crime, and advising or representing those served with third party witness summonses. Before taking silk he was Standing Counsel to the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office for five years, prosecuting cases involving the creation and promotion of income and corporation tax evasion schemes, drugs importation cases brought on behalf of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, and cases involving diversion fraud, evasion of VAT or Anti-Dumping Duty, and money laundering. He has also been instructed by the SFO, the MHRA, and the OFT (in relation to cartels). Recent cases include prosecuting individuals employed to devise and sell a tax avoidance scheme involving the purchase of shares in start-up companies which were then floated on the Channel Island Stock exchange; the shares were then donated to charity, and dishonestly overvalued for the purposes of claims for tax relief on the donations. There were over 600 subscribers to the scheme, who between them sought to avoid paying more than £70m in tax as a result. The defendants subscribed themselves, but also extracted £4.5m for their own benefit from the proceeds of the share subscriptions. Defending the principal defendant in a 6 month MTIC fraud trial, where £10m is alleged to have been obtained dishonestly from HMRC, and false claims submitted for a further £18m. Prosecuting four defendants contesting two conspiracies to defraud and money laundering in respect of fraudulent wine investment schemes operated over three years through two successive companies which obtained £4.5m from members of the public induced to invest in wine overseas. Defending a lobster fisherman charged with having collected a number of rucksacks containing 250kg of cocaine from the middle of the English Channel and depositing them just off the coast of the Isle of Wight, involving allegations of disputed observation evidence.
Benjamin Douglas-Jones KC

Benjamin Douglas-Jones KC

As leader and junior, Ben defends and provides compliance advice to professional and corporate clients including PLCs. He prosecutes for the Serious Fraud Office, CPS Specialist Fraud Division (including medical regulation), Organised Crime and Special Crime Divisions, Appeals Unit and Proceeds of Crime Unit, and local authorities. Level 4 prosecutor. Specialist panels: Fraud, Serious Crime and Proceeds of Crime (London, South East and Wales). CPS Advocate Rape and Child Abuse List. Bribery: Operation Vectorial (matchfixing): Ben represented the first person ever acquitted of Bribery Act offence); SFO v BH ($2.7Bn bribery). Fraud: SFO v Evans (£170m Celtic Energy “fraud”): Ben represented the first Defendant in victories over the SFO in this “blockbuster” case; Operation Valgus (mortgage; over 1,000 mortgages); Operation Festival (complex tax); Abacus Trading (£40m invoice / banking); Operation Ernest (£110m factoring fraud); Operation Militia (botnet cyber fraud); SFO v OB [2014] UKSC 23 (Contempt; Extradition; Restraint; Specialty; Boiler-room Fraud). Consumer law including trademarks, copyright, medical, criminal planning, food safety and environmental health. Co-author Blackstone’s Guide to the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Human rights: Zaredar [2016] EWCA Crim 877; Boateng [2016] 2 Cr. App. R. 5; YY [2016] 1 Cr. App. R. 28; Mateta [2014] 1 WLR 1516 (asylum); J (2016 special court); L [2014] 1 All ER 113 and N and Le [2013] QB 379 (human trafficking) and Ewing [2016] 1 Cr. App. R. 32 (free speech); R (DPP) v Leicester  [2016] 1 Cr. App. R. 5 (self-incrimination). Co-authored Human Trafficking CPS Guidance and Law Society Immigration Crime Guidance. Attorney in Grenada.
Deanna Heer KC

Deanna Heer KC

Appointed Senior Treasury Counsel in 2022, Deanna is a highly experienced criminal barrister who is regularly instructed in the most serious and high-profile cases. For over a decade she has specialised in the prosecution of homicide offences at the Central Criminal Court. In 2020 she was named The Times Lawyer of the Week following her successful prosecution of Jonty Bravery who threw a child from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern. She frequently appears before the Court of Appeal in respect of appeals against conviction and sentence and advises the Attorney General on References to the Court of Appeal on questions of law and sentencing. In 2021, following a four-day appeal which involved questioning multiple experts she successfully persuaded the Court of Appeal to uphold the convictions in the case of the so-called ‘Freshwater Five’. Deanna is also an acknowledged expert in health and safety law and has specialised in this area for many years, appearing in the leading case of R v Tangerine Confectionary in the Court of Appeal. She is experienced in appearing at inquests, including those involving juries, and is currently instructed in the inquest into the death of Belly Mujinga who died during the Covid 19 pandemic. She sits as a Recorder of the Crown Court.
Michael Hick

Michael Hick

Specialises in criminal fraud and serious crime. Instructed by the Serious Fraud Office (A list), the Financial Conduct Authority, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the CPS specialist fraud unit (Grade 4). Defence practice ranges from money laundering to murder. Worked on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. Recent appellate practice includes R v Mehta (whether it is open to a jury to convict of a lesser included conspiracy) and R v Bayode (whether permissible to re-try defendant for murder following conviction for manslaughter).
Stephen Hopper

Stephen Hopper

Stephen has combined a practice in criminal law, with an emphasis on fraud, with extensive professional disciplinary and regulatory work, including acting for regulators in criminal proceedings. He regularly advises the ACCA in a range disciplinary matters relating to accountants (including serious financial impropriety) and frequently appears before the disciplinary and appeal tribunals of that body. He also acts for the MHRA in medicines cases involving individual and corporate defendants, including cases where errors in the supply of medicines have resulted in patient fatalities.
Chloe Hucker

Chloe Hucker

Primary tabsView(active tab)   Edit   Delete   Revisions   Entityqueue CHLOE HUCKER Chloe joined chambers in October 2019 following the successful completion of her pupillage. Chloe has developed a broad criminal practice and is instructed to prosecute and defend in the Magistrates’ Court, Youth Court and the Crown Court. She has defended clients facing a range of criminal offences, including public order offences, cases of domestic violence, possession of weapons and dishonesty offences. Chloe is also a member of the CPS Advocates’ Panel at Grade 3 and prosecutes trials in the Magistrates’ Court and appeals in the Crown Court. Prior to starting pupillage, Chloe worked for 2 years as a paralegal in the Employment and Regulatory team at the Association of Optometrists. She assisted members who were facing formal proceedings at work and provided advice on employment law matters. Following this experience, Chloe is interested in developing her practice and representing professionals in regulatory proceedings.
Edward Jenkins KC

Edward Jenkins KC

He is a specialist in fraud, corruption, corporate crime and related regulatory issues. Acts for both the state and the defence. Recently appeared successfully for the SFO in the Supreme Court in SFO v O`Brien [2014] UKSC 23. Currently instructed by the DPP of Trinidad and Tobago in a case concerning the largest collapse of a financial conglomerate in the Caribbean. He has lectured on behalf of the Bar Council on corruption, fraud and regulatory matters in the USA, Russia, China, Ukraine and Brazil. Work undertaken: fraud, corruption, corporate crime and related regulatory issues, IP crime, extradition, proceeds of crime, murder, smuggling including evasion of sanctions.
Rory Keene

Rory Keene

Barrister with wide experience of defending and prosecuting serious crime at first instance and appellate level. He practices in the following areas: fraud, money laundering, confiscation and restraint, drugs importation and supply, murder, extradition, VAT and MTIC fraud, licensing and regulatory work (he acts in licensing matters for applicants and regulatory authorities. His trading standards work involves the defence and prosecution of individuals and corporations in all areas including health and safety, trade descriptions, product safety, pricing, property misdescription, food law.), professional discipline and acts for police officers and members of the security industry. Rory has a background in publishing which included a promotions background at EMI and Warner Bros. before forming a ‘start up’ publishing enterprise dealing with African emerging markets.
Natasha Lake

Natasha Lake

Natasha joined Chambers in March 2021 following the successful completion of pupillage. Natasha is developing a broad criminal practice, and defends and prosecutes in the magistrates’ courts, youth courts and Crown Court. She has been praised by her clients for her ‘meticulous attention to detail’ and ‘calm and measured submissions which command the attention of the court’.   She has acted in cases involving serious and domestic violence, possession of weapons and drugs and public order offences. Natasha is also regularly instructed in road traffic matters.  Throughout her pupillage, Natasha assisted her supervisors on cases involving a broad spectrum of serious and complex criminal offences including bribery, murder, child cruelty and fraud. Natasha has further assisted members of Chambers on regulatory cases and looks forward to incorporating such work into her own practice. Prior to commencing pupillage, Natasha worked as a paralegal in the white-collar crime team of a busy criminal defence firm where she assisted on complex financial crime cases and associated confiscation proceedings. Previously, she worked as a police emergency call handler and as a legal assistant at a leading cyber security company.
Dominic Lewis

Dominic Lewis

Prosecutes and defends serious crime as junior and leading junior counsel. Particular expertise in financial crime, fraudulent trading, confiscation and asset recovery, including enforcement proceedings and applications for certificates of inadequacy in both the High Court and Crown Court. Dominic’s experience also covers drugs, violence and serious sexual offences, including rape, historic sexual assaults, incest and human trafficking. A further specialism is in the area of prosecuting and defending regulatory offences: cases in which Dominic has been instructed include a money laundering prosecution arising out of the operation of an illegal gambling club. Related consumer law experience includes, for example, the CPUTRs and product safety regulations. Appointed to the Panel of Special Advocates in 2010, with experience in SIAC and Administrative Court proceedings. Also instructed as independent disclosure counsel in criminal proceedings.
Kevin McCartney

Kevin McCartney

Kevin principally represents pharmacists and doctors before the the fitness to practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council and the General Medical Council. He also acts for NHS England and respondent pharmacists and doctors with regard to regulatory/performance issues arising from the pharmaceutical and performers lists. He is regularly instructed to act for one of the pharmacy multiples. His background in serious crime, inquests and professional discipline ensures continuity of representation in cases when a fatality arises from a clinical error. He has also acted for police officers and solicitors facing criminal and regulatory proceedings. He has been instructed to act as legal chair for PCT (NHS England) committees and the British Fencing Association.
Miranda Moore

Miranda Moore

A specialist in serious fraud and organised crime. Has particular experience in bribery and corruption cases. Lead counsel in murders (recently the Kayleigh Haywood case), white collar crime, money laundering and fiscal frauds (including frauds on the NHS). Since taking silk, she has increased her defence practice and deals with a variety of cases including historic sexual abuse, rape, murder and fraud. She defended the first Bribery Act case. Experienced in cases involving sudden deaths of infants and is recognised as a leader in cases involving young or vulnerable witnesses and defendants (including the use of intermediaries). In the last year, she has successfully defended a number of murder cases involving teenage defendants, as well as a series of historic abuse cases and baby shaking allegations. Currently lead counsel in operation Yewtree spin off cases having prosecuted Dave Lee Travis and various doctors.
Richard Padley

Richard Padley

Richard currently maintains a broad criminal practice, including general and serious crime, fraud and confiscation proceedings, undertaking both prosecution and defence work in the Crown, Magistrates’ and Youth Courts. Recent instructions include conspiracy to possess a firearm involving a firearm drop by Victoria Station, representing a vulnerable client accused of fraud against his mother, and allegations of fraud on a charity by a volunteer of the charity. Richard was recently instructed to represent an individual at his preliminary Crown Court proceedings in a $250m conspiracy to defraud involving a Russian investment bank. Fraud, POCA and confiscation proceedings: Richard represents individuals charged with fraud offences and regularly deals with cases involving extensive bank account transaction evidence and cell site analysis. Serious violence and sexual offences: Richard has experience in the intricacies of cross examining young and vulnerable complainants in these types of matters. He has also been instructed in respect of drug conspiracy cases involving undercover police officers and test purchases. Road traffic: Richard has been instructed to represent clients in a broad range of road traffic offences and has successfully argued special reasons and exceptional hardship. Richard has dealt with a number of these matters at trial involving careless driving, driving without insurance and driving in excess of alcohol limits. Secondment: in January 2015 Richard went on secondment for six months to leading business crime and commercial litigation specialists Peters and Peters Solicitors LLP. While there, he dealt with a number of cross-border fraud investigations involving the analysis and application of laws and procedures from multiple jurisdictions. These matters included SFO investigations into LIBOR, FOREX and Barclays. Richard regularly works with prosecutors in foreign jurisdictions including the US, Switzerland and Brazil.
Catherine Sephora Rabaiotti

Catherine Sephora Rabaiotti

Specialises in criminal work, undertaking cases on behalf of the prosecution and defence. Was involved as junior counsel in Operation Movement, the largest car ringing case ever investigated, for the only defendant to have been acquitted; second prosecution junior instructed by DEFRA in a multimillion-pound conspiracy to defraud and is currently instructed as junior defence counsel in the Victoria Station murder. Catherine is on the Attorney General’s list and often appears on behalf of the HSE, DWP and the BIS. She has also appeared on behalf of interested parties at coroners’ inquests and before the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Natalya Segrove

Natalya Segrove

Natalya joined chambers in October 2018, following the successful completion of pupillage. Natalya is developing a broad criminal practice, and is instructed to prosecute and defend in a range of matters before the Magistrates’ Court, the Youth Court and the Crown Court. She has gained experience of a wide variety of criminal cases, including serious and domestic violence, theft, fraud, public order, offensive weapons, drugs, and driving offences. Prior to pupillage, Natalya worked as a paralegal at Hickman and Rose in the corporate crime department. She was part of the core defence team for a defendant in the Barclays Libor trial. As well as assisting in the preparation of the trial, Natalya attended the trial in its entirety. Natalya also spent time working as an assistant to a criminal silk, during which time she gained experience of both prosecuting and defending manslaughter and Health and Safety at Work cases. Due to her background before pupillage, Natalya has a particular interest in health and safety and financial crime. During pupillage she assisted her supervisor, Deanna Heer, in a successful MHRA prosecution relating to production of steroids, and she has also assisted other members of chambers in various health and safety matters.
Oliver Sells KC

Oliver Sells KC

Oliver Sells specialises in complex criminal cases (especially appellate work) involving fraud, extradition, money laundering and confiscation. Since taking Silk he has been involved in numerous high-profile cases, both at first instance and on appeal. Revenue offences, asset forfeiture and confiscation proceedings form a significant part of his practice, as he regularly represents prosecutors, receivers and third parties in the Crown Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and House of Lords on matters relating to the restraint, receivership and confiscation of property. His practice areas also include: criminal law – specialising in commercial fraud, revenue and excise offences, money laundering, asset forfeiture; trade descriptions; licensing; statutory, regulatory and disciplinary inquiries; judicial review; human rights law; extradition; and money laundering, asset forfeiture and confiscation.
Charlene Sumnall

Charlene Sumnall

Charlene has a wide range of experience defending and prosecuting serious complex criminal matters, including murder, rape, GBH, large scale drug importations and fraud. She has a particular expertise in dealing with case where there is complex scientific evidence (including DNA, blood splatter and ballistics). She has also appeared in a number of cases where intermediaries were used for both Crown witnesses and defendants due to the age and vulnerabilities of those involved. A significant proportion of Charlene’s work is in the sphere of ‘consumer’ crime. Charlene accepts instructions from a number of Trading Standards services (including Hull, East Riding, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and those based in various London Boroughs). She has appeared for both the prosecution and the defence in matters including Food and Product Safety, CPUTS, Copyright and Trademarks. She has recently appeared for a business in the Queen’s Bench Division against a local authority seeking an injunction under the Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations.
Janet Weeks

Janet Weeks

Criminal practitioner for both the defence and prosecution. A leading fraud junior specialising in serious fraud, money laundering, confiscation/asset forfeiture. She defends and prosecutes in Murder, serious multi-handed drug conspiracies, general crime and sexual offences. Janet has been involved in many of the highest profile or most complex fraud and corruption cases. She has a specialism in fiscal offences, including insider dealing. She has prosecuted a number of senior solicitors and accountants for money-laundering offences, VAT fraud and fraud on the Legal Services Commission. She is on the regulatory list with specialism in health and safety and SFO A list. She is regularly instructed by the Insolvency Service, CPS Special Casework and the HSE.
Mark Wyeth KC

Mark Wyeth KC

Expert in serious organised crime and fraud cases (especially those involving trademark and copyright infringement), murder, sexual offences and drug importation cases. 2017 saw Mark instructed in a series of high profile cases including; The Charlie Alliston ‘cycling case’ appearing on behalf of the Defence. This was a landmark case that lead directly to a review of the law. Alliston was acquitted of unlawful act manslaughter. The New Order case. Mark appeared on behalf of the bassist Peter Hook making a successful application for leave for a derivative claim in the Chancery Division regarding the trade mark for the pop group New Order. Operation Cleo – re HMRC ‘copycat’ type website. Mark appeared on behalf of the defence. Appearing for the defence in a series of high profile murder cases; R v Field (acquittal of murder). R v Cameron (acquittal of murder). R v Piktorov (subject of an unsuccessful AG’s Reference). Mark is an expert in serious organised crime and fraud cases (appointed as an approved Queen’s Counsel prosecutor with the Serious Fraud Office) and conducts trials for both defence and prosecution involving VAT frauds, murder, sexual offences and drug importation cases. Mark is an ‘Accredited Advocate’ for complex criminal cases (VHCC) with the Legal Services Commission.