Henry Hughes is a specialist criminal practitioner. His practice is predominantly defence based, but he has experience of both prosecuting and defending in proceedings before the Court of Appeal, Crown Courts and Magistrates Courts. He has diverse experience in all elements of proceedings from trial and appellate proceedings to Judicial Review. Henry has been instructed both alone and as junior counsel in a wide range of serious criminal matters. He has expertise in cases of fraud, white-collar crime and money laundering offences, representing defendants in proceedings brought by the Department of Trade and Industry (now the Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), the Department of Work and Pensions, Customs and Excise, and in proceedings brought under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He is also regularly instructed in cases of serious violence, in complex cases of drug dealing/importation and crimes of acquisition. Henry is being led by the Queen Counsel, both in Operation Inertia, the longest ‘MTIC’ fraud to date, and in proceedings brought by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Serious Fraud Office arising from the International Asset Restraint and the Proceeds of Crime Act. He is also involved as sole counsel in representing defendants accused of a wide range of offences including large-scale fraud, drug importation, proceedings relating to asset seizure and to corporate misfeasance, in the upper tier of the Chancery division.

Called 2003.

Radley College, Oxon; Edinburgh University (MA Hons); Nottingham Law School (Postgraduate Diploma in Law); College of Law, London (Bar Vocational Course).