Joseph Ganner

Year of Call: 1983

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Serious Sexual Offences

Qualifications: B.A. (Hons) Law

Joe is a specialist practitioner in criminal law both in defence and occasionally prosecution. He has particular expertise in serious fraud cases and also in a wide range of general crime. He has conducted trials in respect of money laundering, VAT, clearing bank and carousel frauds.

Recent Cases

Recent defence fraud cases include:

Currently instructed for a Defendant in Operation Ghast to be tried at Southwark Crown Court. 14 handed MTIC fraud involving VAT repayment claims in excess of 20 million pounds.

2009 R v B, Birmingham Crown Court.
Conspiracy to defraud creditors and customers involving losses of 1.8 million pounds.

2009 Operation Beckon, Maidstone Crown Court.
Leading Junior in 7 handed tobacco smuggling and money laundering case.

2008-2009 Operation Humidity, Liverpool Crown Court.
14 handed VAT fraud involving losses of 1.7 million pounds to Revenue.

2008 R v Q, Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.
Led in 7 handed missing trader fraud where 2 million pounds was transferred from UK to Panamanian and Latvian banks.

2007 Operation Sunbird, Southwark Crown Court.
Led in 14 handed fraud involving misappropriation of 20 million pounds from NatWest Bank and subsequent money laundering through foreign bank accounts.

2006 Operation Divert, Liverpool Crown Court.
Leading Junior in 7 handed carousel fraud involving over 85 million pound losses to Revenue.

2005-2006 R v SL, Sheffield Crown Court.
Advance fee fraud in which core evidence consisted of overseas material based in Northern Cyprus but the losses were sustained by customers in the United Kingdom.

2004 R v GC and Others, Bolton Crown Court.
Fraudulent trading and car ringing.

2003 R v B, Manchester Crown Court.
Missing trader fraud involving substantial losses to Customs

2002 R v A, Liverpool Crown Court.
Represented a Defendant in "London City Bond" case where original convictions were quashed due to the failure of Customs and Excise - as it then was - to disclose the existence of a participating informant to the trial judge. Mr. A. was a defendant whose case was joined to the re-trial of those whose convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal. The re-trial and cases of those subsequently prosecuted were all stayed and resulted in the Butterfield Inquiry into the role of Customs as a prosecuting authority.

2001/2 R v MW and 5 others (2 cases), Manchester Crown Court.
Substantial evasion of excise duty and VAT on cigarettes and alcohol.

General Crime:

2009 R v F and 2 others, Ipswich Crown Court.
Attempted murder at funeral in cemetery.

2008 R v F and 6 others, Leicester Crown Court.
Conspiracy to supply wholesale quantities of Class A, B and C drugs.

2003 R v C and 7 others, Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.
Leading junior, conspiracy to commit armed robberies.

2001 Operation Cleopatra, Manchester Crown Court.
Case involved wide scale sexual abuse of children in care.

2001 Regina v O, Manchester Crown Court.
Gangland killing in Longsight

2000 Regina v G and Others, Preston Crown Court.
Multihanded conspiracy to murder involving abduction, shootings and torture of gang members in Salford.

Prosecution:

Although focussed on defence work Joe is a category 4 prosecutor. He has been instructed by CPS Special Casework both to advise and conduct cases of gross negligence manslaughter such as:

2004 Regina v S, Chester Crown Court
Junior counsel for prosecution of  out-of-hours GP administering overdose of morphine to patient.

2002 Regina v G and R, Cardiff Crown Court
Junior Counsel for prosecution of two surgeons accused of killing patient by removal of wrong kidney.

Other Experience:

IT proficient, conversant in French and Spanish. Past chairman of circuit remuneration committee with extensive knowledge of LSC public funding and criminal contracting issues.