Criminal
Oliver’s areas of specialism include murder, organised crime involving international drugs conspiracies, money laundering and fraud, fatal road traffic offences – as recommended by the ‘Legal 500’, and regulatory offences.
Oliver is a defence specialist and has acted as lead counsel in many trials. Oliver defends throughout England and Wales in the most serious and often high-profile cases.
He has specialist experience of cases involving journalistic intrusion and linked human rights issues, covert surveillance, regulation of investigatory powers and issues of abuse of process and exclusion of evidence.
Oliver’s knowledge of information technology assists him particularly in fraud cases which demand the management of vast amounts of material. He has acted as lead counsel in numerous large scale frauds.
Called 1992
Oliver is also a writer of fiction and non-fiction on life in the courtroom. He wrote highly acclaimed Radio 4 drama Judgement exploring a barrister’s thought processes whilst cross-examining a rape victim. Using his knowledge of the Indonesian language he traveled to Sumatra where he wrote and presented a BBC documentary entitled Mum Knows Best, which compared two neighbouring tribes, one of which has a matrilineal system of inheritance.
His first novel, a legal thriller, Death By Dangerous was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger. His second novel, Cut-Throat Defence was published in 2016. Find out more at www.ollyjarvis.co.uk
Oliver also speaks basic Polish, Indonesian and French.