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Paul Jarvis

Paul Jarvis

Position

Paul is a first-rate advocate with a thriving practice as both a leader and a junior alone in cases of substance and complexity.

He is a Junior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court, appointed by the Attorney General in 2017 to prosecute the most serious offences including murder and terrorism. In that role Paul accepts instructions from all divisions of the Crown Prosecution Service and from the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Alongside prosecuting, Paul maintains a busy private defence practice, mainly in the areas of corporate and financial crime, cybercrime, serious sexual offending and motoring offences, where his expertise is sought at all stages of proceedings.

Paul has particular expertise with regards to the proceeds of crime and judicial review.  He also has a sizeable appellate practice.  In the last few years he has appeared as sole junior counsel in over one hundred cases before the Court of Appeal.

Paul is the joint editor of Millington & Sutherland Williams on the Proceeds of Crime, and Kingsley Napley & 6KBW College Hill: Serious Fraud, Investigation & Trial, and a contributor to Blackstones’ Criminal Practice and Taylor on Appeals. He is a case commentator for Lloyd’s Law Reports: Financial Crime, and a regular contributor to the Criminal Law Review and Archbold Review.

Career

Junior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court Recorder (part-time Circuit Judge) Fellow Commoner, Downing College, Cambridge Advisory Board, Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice Supervisor in law, University of Cambridge Ad hoc lecturer in law, University of Oxford Criminal Procedure Rule Committee Criminal Law Reform Now Network Committee Criminal Bar Association Law Reform Working Group Co-Chair, Criminal Bar Association Education Committee Legal Adviser to the CPS London Hate Crime Local Scrutiny Panel South-Eastern Circuit Lead Facilitator for Vulnerable Witness Training Pupillage Foundation Scheme Mentor, Lincoln’s Inn Mentor for The Kalisher Trust

Memberships

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Selden Society Criminal Bar Association Proceeds of Crime Lawyers’ Association Fraud Lawyers’ Association Private Prosecutors’ Association

Education

University of Cambridge, LLM (Hons), Law.

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