Edward Henry KC KC > Mountford Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

The team at Mountford Chambers continues to handle an increasing amount of complex fraud work. Edward Henry KC garners praise as ‘one of the finest advocates‘ in the financial crime field. In recent instructions for the group, Joe Hingston represented one of two individuals charged with fraudulently operating a cryptocurrency investment scheme, involving purported purchases of shares in a cryptocurrency called “Telecoin” – both defendants were convicted of conspiracy to defraud.

Mountford Chambers is ‘going from strength to strength’ when it comes to its criminal law offering and is now recognised as ‘a go-to set for all criminal cases’. Edward Henry KC successfully represented Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongly jailed in 2003 for the rape and strangulation of a woman in Salford but had his conviction overturned in July 2023 by the Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence implicated another man in the crime. William England has considerable experience handling homicide, terrorism, and large-scale drug importation cases – he recently defended a man charged alongside two others with importing several thousand kilograms of cocaine. Christopher Henley KC’s broad practice covers a wide range of offences, with a recent emphasis on homicide and terrorism offences.