Barry Gregory

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Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Serious Sexual Offences, Regulation/Compliance, Extradition, Asset Forfeiture, Anti-terrorism, Prison Law, Health & Safety, Police Disciplinary, Courts Martial, Inquests & Public Inquiries

Barry Gregory has over thirty years’ experience in the law, and worked in a solicitors’ office, as a court clerk in the Magistrates’ Courts Service, and as a lawyer in the Fraud Investigation Group, before being called to the bar in 1987. Because of his acknowledged experience and skill he was appointed in 1991 to the top category for HMCE list confiscation cases and is a grade 4 advocate on the CPS London list.

Barry has defended and prosecuted a wide variety of cases throughout the country, but has particular interest in fraud, drugs and violent crime. His fraud work has included serious and complex VAT frauds, such as a recent seven-month, multi-million pound trial arising from Operation Emersed. He is also highly experienced in money laundering cases and asset forfeiture and confiscation proceedings in all courts. He regularly works for the defence and third parties affected by confiscation, and is instructed by receivers, HM Revenue & Customs, CPS, The Department of Health, the Medicines Control Agency and the SFO.

Barry’s experience of drugs crime includes major trials of the importation and possession with intent to supply large quantities of both class A and B drugs. He regularly appears in high-profile violent and sexual crime cases, up to and including murder. Recent examples include R v Dean Williams, a murder trial at Maidstone Crown Court, and R v Goodman at the CCC, which concerned a series of armed robberies. His experience also spans all Theft Act offences, counterfeiting, corruption, arson, public order and firearms offences, regulatory offences, licensing and other general crimes. He has appeared in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Divisional Court, both leading and being led, as well as in Court Martial cases.

Barry served on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office working party on mutual legal assistance, and the Home Office working party on confiscation, and has lectured and written widely on confiscation matters.