Serious & Organised Crime

Our barristers are regularly instructed to prosecute and defend in cases that are investigated by the National Crime Agency, UK Border Agency and other specialist police teams, who target those alleged to be involved in serious and organised crime.

These cases often involve allegations of criminality at the highest level, including conspiracies to murder, large-scale drug importations, distribution of drugs within the UK and firearms offences.  Prosecutions of this type are routinely built around complex and overlapping areas of evidence such as forensic telecommunications and cell site data, covert surveillance evidence and evidence from foreign jurisdictions.  Such cases will often involve public interest immunity considerations and issues of the most sensitive nature. Our barristers routinely provide advice and representation of the very highest quality across this field and in the most serious cases that come before the Courts.

When defending in this field, our advocates work with the best experts in the country to ensure that every aspect of the prosecution evidence is carefully reviewed, and where appropriate robustly and masterfully challenged.  Since 2020 our barristers have frequently been the first choice of counsel instructed to defend EncroChat-based prosecutions and we have a deep understanding of the Operation Venetic evidence and the underlying issues relating to admissibility.

We have a full range of barristers with significant expertise in this field of work including King’s Counsel, Leading Juniors, Juniors and Led Juniors.