Tom Payne specialises in Business Crime & Fraud (particularly cases of financial crime involving complex issues of taxation, accountancy and money laundering) and complex general Crime. He is routinely instructed in cases of unusual complexity or sensitivity (e.g. EncroChat, Hillsborough), and his career has included a number of legal firsts:

the first paperless criminal trials in England and Wales using EPE and iPad jury bundles in a series of highly complex tax frauds;

the first prosecutions for the cartel offence;

the first prosecution arising from the Victims Right of Review scheme; and

the first prosecution for offences under s2(16) CJA 1988.

He is regularly instructed in major cases by the CPS, FRC, and SFO.

Called Middle Temple: 1998

Recorder (2012)

CPS Specialist Panel Advocate (Fraud, Organised Crime and Proceeds of Crime) (Grade 4) (2012)

SFO Panel Advocate (A list) (2012)

Publications:

Archbold, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, Sweet & Maxwell, contributing editor

Crown Court Index, Sweet & Maxwell, 2022

Crown Court Index, Sweet & Maxwell, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, with M. Lucraft

Millington and Sutherland Williams: The Proceeds of Crime, 5th edition, OUP, 2018, contributing author

Elected member of Bar Council since 2015

Bar Council Remuneration Committee

Member of CBA Executive

Former CBA Treasurer

MA Jurisprudence, Trinity College, University of Oxford

LLM, Birmingham University