23ES

Paul Ozin KC has particular expertise in financial, business and regulatory crime cases (including company, business, revenue, market-related, advance fee, healthcare and pharmaceutical, factoring, bribery and corruption, money laundering, confiscation and asset recovery cases). He is well placed to deal with the whole landscape of such cases, with complementary expertise in regulatory and disciplinary proceedings, and related civil and public law challenges, including international work.

Until taking Silk, he was Standing Counsel to the Department of Business. He is instructed in cases prosecuted by the other principal prosecutors of financial, business and regulatory crime cases: the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority and the CPS Fraud Divisions.

He has a sector-wide practice in regulatory and disciplinary cases, (including financial, accountancy, legal services, police, forensic pathology and healthcare regulatory cases) including Appellate public law challenges and statutory appeals. He appears for both regulators and regulated persons. He advises regulators on overarching issues and the drafting of regulations and guidance. He is the former Chair of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

He leads, inclusively with colleagues, the 23ES Chambers Regulatory and Disciplinary Team.

Called 1987; Middle Temple. Appointed Silk in 2016.

Criminal Bar Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

Carmel College; Balliol College, Oxford (1986 BA).