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Jonathan Fisher KC
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Position
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.
Much of Jonathan’s work involves international transactions, offshore companies and trusts. He has represented defendants and prosecution authorities in many serious or complex criminal and civil trials. Today, Jonathan’s practice is mostly advisory.
Jonathan holds a PhD, awarded by LSE, following his research into the obligation to report suspicious money laundering activity and corporate rights.
Career
Called 1980
Silk 2003
Chartered Tax Adviser (Fellow)
Accredited STEP practitioner
Dubai International Financial Court (registered practitioner)
Lloyds Financial Crime Reports (General Editor)
London School of Economics (Visiting Professor)
Commissioner on the Commission for a UK Bill of Rights, 2010-11
Standing Counsel (Criminal) to Commissioners of Inland Revenue 1991-2003.
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
‘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 & Maxwell
Peer-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.
Memberships
Chartered Institute of Taxation (Fellow)
CBA
Dubai International Financial Court (registered practitioner)
Society of Legal Scholars
STEP (accredited practitioner)
South Eastern Circuit
Education
PhD, LSE
Master’s degree in law, LLM, Cambridge University
BA in Law: 1st Class