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The areas specialised in include:-
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Serious financial crime and HM Revenue and Customs Prosecutions (including restraint and confiscation proceedings)
We are noted in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners guides to the legal profession as being ranked for our work in the defence of criminal fraud. We appear frequently in the most important fraud trials conducted in England and Wales. Our specialist teams of solicitors and in-house counsel have significant and successful track records in preparing cases at the highest complexity from across the financial crime sector.
The firm has extensive experience and expertise in cases involving duty evasion, money laundering, missing trader, carousel and other types of VAT fraud. We are also able to provide immediate response teams where allegations require attendance at our client’s premises.
We also have significant experience of all aspects of both pre-and post- charge restraint proceedings, including representation at all applications. We also liaise on our clients’ behalf with Court Appointed Receivers.
We have specialist teams who deal with all aspects of confiscation and condemnation proceedings, and frequently act in multi-million pound actions.
Defending Inland Revenue Special Compliance Office prosecutions
Bark & Co has considerable experience in defending large scale SCO prosecutions and often defends these cases with the assistance of the leading forensic accountants.
National Crime Squad/Specialist CPS and SOCA prosecutions
Bark & Co continue to deal with the highest profile serious crime cases brought by the specialist prosecution agencies. Expertise in this field includes dealing with vast amounts of probe (“bugging”) evidence, surveillance material, and telephone evidence, frequently from a number of different jurisdictions and provided by international law enforcement agencies.
Bark & Co have particular experience of defending allegations of very large-scale drugs importation, and the attendant financial proceedings which frequently are brought concurrently.
VAT and Duties Tribunal proceedings and tax investigations
Bark & Co have, from their experience of defending both individual and corporate clients, a keen awareness of the significant difficulties which can often be caused by the withholding and blocking of VAT, regulatory investigations, and so on. We seek, where possible, to resolve our clients’ disputes through a measured approach, engaging with Officers of HMRC to ensure a speedy and cost-effective resolution.
We also, however, have strong experience of litigating matters before the VAT and Duties Tribunal in cases brought by the Commissioners of HM Revenue and Customs, notably in missing trader (MTIC / “carousel”) frauds involving companies based throughout the EU, and, where necessary, in subsequent appeals.
We deal with all aspects of missing trader and other frauds in both criminal proceedings and in relation to blocked VAT.
Extradition
With our won expertise and an extensive network of contacts throughout the world, we are able to provide the earliest possible advice and assistance in foreign jurisdiction and all other aspects of extradition proceedings.
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| Recent Cases |
| R –v- W & Others |
| Woolwich Crown Court |
| Case investigated by the elite Flying Squad receiving high-profile
media attention, involving allegations of armed robbery of significant
amount of gold bullion [more...] |
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| Cheney Fund Pension theft |
| Blackfriars Crown Court |
| Allegations of a conspiracy to steal just under £3 million
from the CW Cheney & Son Pension Fund. [more...] |
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| R –v- G |
| Southwark Crown Court |
| This case concerned an alleged conspiracy to defraud a major insurance
company, The Prudential, of £42 million [more...] |
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| R-v-B |
| Blackfriars Crown Court |
| Successfully defended an SFO prosecution involving a multi-million
pound fraud in the internet and telecommunications industry. [more...] |
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| R –v-H & others. |
| The firm acted for 3 out of 4 defendants charged following the
largest investigation into police corruption ever to be conducted
in this country [more...] |
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| R –v- F |
| Southwark Crown Court |
| This high profile money laundering prosecution was brought following
an undercover ‘sting’ operation, based in London and
Gibraltar [more...] |
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