Andrew Menary QC

Year of Call: 1982

Recorder 2002

Silk 2003

Memberships: Criminal Bar Association

Andrew Menary QC is a highly respected and extremely experienced
advocate who has appeared in many high profile and complex cases.
He is consistently recommended in Chambers and Partners Guide and The
Legal 500 directories. He is described as a ‘heavyweight silk' and is ranked
as a leading advocate in criminal fraud (Legal 500).
He acts regularly for both Prosecution and Defence in criminal cases involving
offences of the utmost gravity and complexity including murder, international
drugs offences, serious fraud and regulatory work.

Defence
Andrew Menary QC regularly defends in cases involving allegations of murder
and other serious violence, and in fraud cases. He also is regularly called
upon to advise on and act in regulatory cases, and has appeared in numerous
Health & Safety matters, including defending in work-related deaths.

Fraud
Andrew Menary QC has particular experience of cases involving complex
fraud and financial crime. He has prosecuted and defended in substantial
multi-million pound fraud and money laundering cases, including MTIC and
‘diversion' frauds.
As part of a special committee based in London he advised HM Customs and
Excise at policy level in relation to the management of cross-case disclosure
in multiple interconnected "carousal" frauds, and the initial development and
strategy for MTIC prosecutions.

Recent fraud cases include:

• Defending a company director in ‘Aleef Garages', the largest HMRC
prosecution in the North West involving PAYE fraud and the alleged
misuse of Muslim charities; and
• Prosecuting Operation Shootout - a £56 million MTIC fraud relying on
international banking evidence.

He has also lectured on Circuit and in the Channel Islands on the subject of
financial crime, money laundering and confiscation.

Recent cases include:

Case name: Finn and others (Operation Asburn)
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Murder.
Detail: Multi-handed prosecution of drug dealers alleged to have
executed a rival.

Case name: Umerji and others (Operation Shootout)
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Conspiracy to cheat the Revenue and money laundering.
Detail: £56 million MTIC fraud relying on international banking evidence.

Case name: Fagbuaro and another (Operation Socrates)
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Murder, robbery and possession of firearms.
Detail: Killing in the course of a robbery.

Case name: Dunne and others
Appearance: Defence QC
Category: Murder.
Detail: Alleged ‘vigilante' killing of suspected paedophile.

Case name: Patel and others
Appearance: Defence QC
Category: Cheating the Revenue.
Detail: Substantial PAYE and related frauds

Case name: McDonald
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Attempted murder and possession of firearms.
Detail: Historic prosecution of defendant after he had evaded arrest for
eight years.

Case name: Razaq
Appearance: Defence QC
Category: Possession of firearms, money laundering and perverting the
course of justice.
Detail: Police Sergeant assisting his brother and other drug dealers in
relation to firearms and their proceeds of drug trafficking.

Case name: HSE v RCL
Appearance: Defence QC
Category: Health and Safety at Work.
Detail: Actions of the company allegedly caused death of employee.

Case name: Fletcher
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Murder.
Detail: Mother killed 4-year-old daughter by drowning.

Case name: Aslam and others
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Murder.
Detail: Gang execution.

Case name: Colin Joyce and others (Operation Viola)
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Murder, conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to supply drugs,
conspiracy to possess firearms.
Detail: Six month trial of 11 members of notorious Manchester gang.
Largest case of its type investigated and prosecuted by
Greater Manchester Police and CPS.

Case name: Brown and others (Operation Incrusto)
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Conspiracy to import Class A drugs.
Detail: SOCA investigation resulting in multi-handed trial of organised
crime group importing drugs from the Continent using
sophisticated concealment methods.

Case name: Farrell and others.
Appearance: Defence QC
Category: Murder
Detail: Alleged gang related killing outside Altcourse Prison, Liverpool.
Defendant aged 15.

Case name: Taylor and Barton
Appearance: Defence QC
Category: Murder
Detail: Racially motivated killing of the black teenager, Anthony Walker.

Case name: Edward Jarvis (Operation Windchime)
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Conspiracy to possess Class A drugs with intend to supply
Detail: SOCA prosecution involving the shipment of large quantities of
drugs from Venezuela and the Netherlands.

Case name: HSE v Sovereign Rubber Limited
Appearance: Defence QC
Category: Health and Safety at Work offences
Detail: Actions of company allegedly caused death of employee.

Case name: Regina v McCoy & Babcock Services
Appearance: Prosecution QC
Category: Manslaughter and Health and Safety at Work offences
Detail: Actions of company allegedly caused death of employee.