Doughty Street Chambers

Criminal Law and Appeals Business Crime and Investigations Extradition Actions Against the Police and Public Authorities

Rupert leads the chambers Business Crime team. His expertise as one of the country’s leading barristers in challenging search warrants, and the seizure of property and information, has been noted in the practitioner guides for over a decade.

Rupert is renowned for his ability to take unusual and difficult cases that overlap criminal and civil law and consequently has a broad practice in financial crime, asset freezing and private prosecutions, judicial review, extradition, data protection and information rights, espionage and terrorist offences, contempt of court and sports law and has represented a number of high profile individuals and entities including Harry Redknapp, Jermain Defoe, Lord Hanningfield in the parliamentary expenses scandal, George Galloway, West Ham Utd, James Tomkins, Ben Thatcher and Dr Edward Wojakovski.

He has been instructed in prosecutions brought under the Official Secrets Acts and as the lead advocate in the first Encrochat case before the Court of Appeal and upon judicial review of the European investigation order.

He is an author of practitioner texts and publishes regular articles on a variety of legal topics which are available on Lexology and on chambers’ Insights page. He has also been published in various magazines including the Solicitors Journal, Counsel Magazine and The Law Society Gazette and previously wrote commentary for Lloyds Financial Law Reports. Rupert is the author, or a contributing author of the following:

Information Rights: A Practitioner’s Guide to Data Protection, Freedom of Information and other Information Rights (Bloomsbury) (2023)

Human Rights in Criminal Law (Bloomsbury) (2023) 

Blackstone’s Guide to the Terrorism Act 2006 (OUP) (2006) 

Called: 1995; Gray’s Inn. Year of Silk: 2015.