Andrew's practice encompasses all aspects of the law relating to the proceeds of crime and asset recovery, with significant experience at both first instance and appellate level of proceedings under the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986, the Criminal Justice Act 1988, the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. His practice encompasses international law and conflict of laws in his specialist field, having dealt with cases involving parallel or prior proceedings in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, Jersey, the United States and Australia. He has been recommended by both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 in criminal fraud for some years.
He has appeared in a number of the leading cases in the field and has appeared, and been reported, in the House of Lords, both divisions of the Court of Appeal and the Administrative Court. He was involved in the largest confiscation proceedings ever brought by the SFO, and assisted the defence in the then largest money laundering prosecution ever brought in Jersey. He is an editor of Smith, Owen and Bodnar on Asset Recovery, published by OUP, and lectures on asset recovery both here and abroad. In 2009 he was appointed to the Serious Fraud Office’s A Panel of Junior Counsel. He has experience of all types of proceedings concerning the proceeds of crime, both criminal and civil. He has been involved in many of the contested applications for civil recovery orders so far brought.
Andrew has experience of a broad range of crime, from road traffic offences to murder, including capital appeals to the Privy Council, but now specialises in corporate and financial crime, with particular emphasis on fraud, money laundering, corruption and corporate criminal liability. He has a good working knowledge of the workings of investment funds and regulatory issues related to such funds both under the FSA and the SEC.
Andrew increasingly practices in related civil proceedings, in particular civil fraud, insolvency, debt recovery and asset tracing, together with applications in support of such proceedings for freezing orders and search orders. His civil cases have often had a commercial aspect or background. He has been involved in substantial proceedings in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division and Queen’s Bench Division, including proceedings with an international aspect.
He has appeared for both applicant and respondent in judicial review proceedings concerning human rights, in particular prisoners’ rights and the rights of patients detained under the Mental Health Act.
Andrew has a working knowledge of French, German and Hungarian.