Stephen’s experience as a top fraud barrister has developed over many years, and he is often asked to advise and represent at trial those accused of so-called “white collar crime”.
These sorts of allegations are wide and disparate, but include:
- Tax fraud (including cheating the Revenue, the fraudulent evasion of excise duty (VAT fraud), carousel and missing trader frauds (MTIC), Stamp Duty evasion fraud, Construction industry scheme fraud (CIS), and Tax saving scheme frauds);
- Conspiracies to defraud
- False accounting
- Insider dealing;
- Insolvency/liquidation frauds;
- Fraudulent trading;
- Investment frauds;
- Boiler room frauds;
- Mortgage frauds;
- Contract frauds; and
- Forgery.