Bark&co continues to act in large, high-profile criminal cases, following arrests for murder, money laundering, drugs importation, sexual offences, people smuggling, and firearms and terrorism offences. Our focus is on high-end work, much of it with an international dimension. We are also active in the fast-growing area of cyber crime, and advise individuals and companies facing investigations or criminal proceedings as a result of health and safety and environmental breaches.

Our track record includes the News of the World‘ phone hacking’ prosecution and subsequent computer hacking investigations; the Melanie Hall historical murder case; the case of cricket match fixing / conspiracy to pervert the course of justice involving former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns; the Clerkenwell ‘crime syndicate’ case; the Operation Yewtree sexual offences investigation; the landmark Agnes Taylor case, involving torture offences dating back to the Liberian civil war and the largest criminal case of its time; and the UK’s largest ever burglary case (carried out by an international criminal gang against a series of celebrities in December 2019).