Exchange Chambers

Criminal (Fraud)

Robert O’Sullivan is an experienced criminal fraud specialist, who prosecutes and defends in serious and complex fraud cases. He also advises on the law and case strategy pre-charge, including cross-jurisdictional issues relating to evidence and justiciability.

Robert has considerable experience in direct and indirect tax fraud. He has prosecuted many multi-handed MTIC VAT frauds, including the successful prosecution of an HMRC investigation into a £98 million pound marketed income tax avoidance scheme in the film industry.

He also has extensive experience in murder/manslaughter cases and health and safety criminal litigation, medicines and medicinal products prosecutions (including advising the MHRA in the Seroxat investigation) and courts-martial advocacy in the UK and overseas, having defended in the Camp Bread Basket prisoner abuse trial arising out of the second Iraq war.

He is a member of the Serious Fraud Office Panel of King’s Counsel. Prior to taking silk, he was on the Attorney-General’s A List of specialist advocates and a Category 4 Prosecutor.

He is a member of the Bar Council’s Law Reform Committee and its Surveillance and Privacy Working Group.

Called, 1988; Silk, 2002

Criminal Bar Association; Bar Council’s Law Reform Committee; Surveillance and Privacy Working Group

London, LLB (Hons)