Barnaby Hone
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 2 : POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture
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Band 2
About
Provided by Barnaby Hone
Practice Areas
Asset Recovery, Professional Discipline & Regulatory Prosecutions, Direct Access, Criminal Law, International Law.
Career
Barnaby is a leading Junior who specialises in POCA work, regulatory work, and White-Collar Crime.
He has a range of experience in international asset recovery, POCA, financial crime, environmental crime, private prosecutions, and professional discipline law, particularly in healthcare, accountancy, and sports law matters. He is frequently instructed as a leading Junior or alone.
Barnaby's international asset recovery and financial crime practice includes experience of dealing with corruption, money laundering, and fraud involving multi-jurisdictional assets and offences and can involve the recovery of the proceeds of these offences.
He has extensive experience working in a variety of jurisdictions and was seconded to the CPS in 2014 for 18 months working in the Caribbean.
He is regularly instructed in all types of POCA work, both domestically and Internationally. This includes Confiscation work and civil-based POCA orders.
He was instructed on the first successful Account Freezing and Forfeiture Order in 2018 and is now a leading authority on the area instructed in multiple million-pound cases.
He was counsel for the SFO in their first contested Account Forfeiture Order. He also undertakes extensive work for third parties under section 10A of POCA.
Professional Memberships
Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association (POCLA).
Amicus.
Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).