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Christian Jowett

Christian Jowett

Position

Christian’s core specialisms lie in fraud, environmental and regulatory law (and the interface between their criminal and civil elements), and also in administrative law (focused on immigration and asylum law and environmental law).

Christian’s criminal practice focuses on fraud, environmental and regulatory law. With a multi-disciplinary background, Christian has a particular interest in subsidiary confiscation and asset recovery under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the related areas of property and chancery law with which it interacts, including matrimonial and cohabitee finance, inheritance, and insolvency. His practice is best represented by R v Morgan [2013] EWCA Crim. 1307, [2014] 1 All E.R. 1208, [2014] Env.L.R. 5, [2013] Lloyd's Rep FC 655, an appeal arising from an environmental prosecution, which concerned the interface between criminal confiscation, environmental regulation, landfill tax and the effect of Article 1, Protocol 1 to the ECHR. He appears not only in the criminal courts in relation to such matters, but also the County Court, High Court, and related Tribunals. He also writes, blogs and lectures on the interface between criminal confiscation and other areas of law. He is recommended in the Legal 500 2017 for his criminal law practice as Tier 1.

Christian’s distinct public law practice is immigration and environmental law based. A longstanding member of the Wales Working Party of the UK Environmental Law Association, Christian was elected to its National Council in 2017 with special responsibility for Wales. An experienced practitioner in all aspects of Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights law, he regularly appears before the High Court, and before both tiers of the Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber).

Career

Call: 1999

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association Proceeds of Crime Lawyers’ Association Revenue Bar Association UK Environmental Law Association (member of the sub-committee of the Wales Working Party) Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association

Education

1999-2000:  LL.M. (Merit) University College London 1998-1999:  Bar Vocational Course; Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent) 1995-1998:  LL.B. (Hons) (IIi) University College London

Mentions

Wales and Chester Circuit • Regional Bar

Administrative law and human rights

Leading junior1
Christian Jowett – 30 Park Place Chambers ‘Christian is a very user-friendly, very organised and very proactive barrister. He is also a good advocate.’
Wales and Chester Circuit • Regional Bar

Business and regulatory crime (including health and safety)

Leading junior1
Christian Jowett –30 Park Place Chambers ‘Christian is meticulous in his advice and his attention to detail is excellent. He sees all sides of an argument and is clear, succinct and persuasive on his feet.’
Wales and Chester Circuit • Regional Bar

Immigration

Leading junior1
Christian Jowett – 30 Park Place Chambers