Richard Beynon has a wide experience of criminal litigation, specialising over a number of years in the prosecution of large and complex cases involving Crime, Serious & Organised Crime and Business Crime & Fraud (including tax and duty evasion along with ancillary confiscation proceedings following conviction).

Both as leader and junior, he has prosecuted a number of large multi-handed cases where investigations have been measured in years.

He has a keen interest in equally complicated prosecutions for the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive. A conscientious advocate with a hard-working approach he has the ability to handle vast amounts of material, used and unused alike. He serves on the CPS Advocate Panel at the highest level and also serves on the Regulatory Panel.

Year of call: 1990

Inn: Inner Temple

Standing Counsel to the Insolvency Service

CPS Panel Advocate (General Crime) (Grade 4, highest level)

CPS Specialist Panel Advocate (Fraud and Serious Crime)

CPS Specialist Panel Advocate (POCA)

Regulatory Panel (HSE/ORR/EA) (A Panel) (2012)

SFO (A Panel) (2013–2017)

Publications:

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; Corporate Liability; Interlocutory Hearings; Prosecution Appeals; Non-Jury Trials in Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure, LexisNexis, 2004.

South Eastern Circuit

CBA

HSLA

Kings School Cardiff Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic 1986-1989 LLB (Hons); Inns of Court School of Law 1989 -1990