St Philips Chambers

Crime & Regulatory

Kevin Hegarty KC is a criminal law specialist. His practice includes fraud, homicide and regulatory crime. His approach to preparation gives him a near encyclopaedic knowledge to the issues in his cases.

He is a member of the Criminal Bar Association and regularly appears for the defence and the prosecution in murder and manslaughter trials. The cases usually involve contested expert evidence on complex medical issues, on causation of injuries and death. He accepts instructions that are privately and publicly funded. He has expertise in private prosecutions.

In 2013 he was appointed to the Serious Fraud Office Prosecution and Proceeds of Crime Lists. In 2017 he received a Commendation from the Director General of the National Crime Agency for his work on the largest money laundering case ever prosecuted in the United Kingdom.

He is a member of the UK Environmental Lawyers Association and he has a Masters Degree in Health and Safety and Environmental Law. His expertise in environmental law includes pollution, waste, carbon emissions and emissions control. His Masters dissertation examined the effectiveness of emissions trading schemes in the EU and the USA.

The Attorney General has appointed him as Special Counsel and he is security cleared at the highest level.

He is regularly instructed by local authorities to prosecute and advise on many different aspects of health and safety, environmental law and trading standards.

He has also been advising an interested public body in respect of matters connected to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

Called 1982, Middle Temple; recorder of the Crown Court, 2003; QC 2010.

Criminal Bar Association; Midland Circuit; Health and Safety Lawyers Association; UK Environmental Lawyers Association.

MA; LLB.