Jonathan Fisher KC is ranked as a leading barrister, with extensive experience in civil, criminal and regulatory cases. Jonathan has particular expertise in the areas of Bribery & Corruption, Sanctions, Financial Services Regulation, Fraud, Money Laundering & Proceeds of Crime, and Tax & Insolvency disputes.
Ranked by the independent legal directories in Band / Tier 1 for Business and Regulatory Crime, Financial Crime, Financial Crime (Corporates), Proceeds of Crime and Asset Forfeiture cases, Jonathan is featured for his work in Tax (Corporate), Financial Services Regulation, Fraud (Crime) and Fraud (Civil).
Jonathan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation with recognition as a Chartered Tax Adviser, a member of STEP, and a registered practitioner in the Dubai International Financial Court.
In 2023, Jonathan Fisher KC was identified as No 1 by Business Today in the Top 10 list of financial crime lawyers practising at the London Bar.
In addition, Jonathan is the Chair of the UK Government’s Independent Review into Disclosure of Unused Material in Criminal Cases and Fraud Offences. This is a part-time role which Jonathan principally conducts from Chambers.
Jonathan is a Senior Fellow (and Visiting Professor in Practice) at The LSE where he teaches Financial Crime on the LLM programme (0.22 appointment). He holds a PhD awarded by The LSE following his research into the application of the anti-money laundering reporting requirement to companies.
Jonathan is available to receive instructions for advisory and advocacy cases in his specialist areas.
He is registered as a public access practitioner.
Called 1980
Silk 2003
Honorary Member of the London Fraud Forum Steering Group Visiting Professor in Practice, Law Department, London School of Economics
Previous appointments include:
• Commissioner on the Commission on a Bill of Rights • Specialist adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee • Trustee Director of the Fraud Advisory Panel • Committee Member of the Asset Recovery Agency Steering Group • Legal Panel Member of the Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board • Trustee, International Lawyers Project • Editor Emeritus, Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime • Standing Counsel (Criminal) to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue at the Central Criminal Court and London Crown Courts.
Publications:
Books:
Arlidge & Parry on Fraud, 6th edition, Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, co-author The Criminal Finances Act 2017, Informa Law, co-author Law of Investor Protection, Sweet & Maxwell, co-author,Chapters
The Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce in the United Kingdom, A Critique of an Emerging Model for a Public–Private Information-Sharing Partnership, Max Planck Institute, Intersentia 2024. Modernising and Simplifying Tax Evasion Offences in the UK: Response, Criminal Law Reform Now Volume 2: Proposals and Critique, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. ‘Fraud in Civil and Criminal Law’, Research Handbook on International Financial Crime, Edward Elgar ‘Fighting Financial Crime in the Global Economic Crisis’, Policing the Financial Markets, Risk and Recklessness, Routledge ‘Temas de Anticorruptcao e Compliance’, The UK Bribery Act 2010, Elsevier (Brazil) ‘Confiscating the Proceeds of Crime’, International Guide to Money Laundering Law & Practice, Bloomsbury Professional ‘EU Directives’, A Practitioner’s Guide to International Money Laundering Law and Regulation, Sweet & MaxwellPeer-reviewed journals
‘Anti-Corruption Sanctions, The Bribery Act and Unexplained Wealth Order’, Criminal Law Review 2022, 41, co-author
‘Confiscation: Deprivatory and not Punitive’ Criminal Law Review, 2018, 192, co-author.
‘Permanent injunction to prevent market abuse’ Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2015, 681
Part 1 of ‘Serious Crime Act 2015: Strengthening the restraint and confiscation regime’, Criminal Law Review, September 2015, 753-765
‘Criminal forms of high frequency trading on the financial markets’, Law and Financial Markets Review, 2015, 113, co-author
‘The vulnerability of HMRC to penetration by criminal actors’, Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2012, 153.
Chartered Institute of Taxation (Fellow)
CBA
Dubai International Financial Court (registered practitioner)
Society of Legal Scholars
STEP (accredited practitioner)
South Eastern Circuit
PhD, LSE
Master’s degree in law, LLM, Cambridge University
BA in Law: 1st Class