Brian Altman KC

Practice Areas

Brian's specialisms include public inquiry work, business crime and investigations. His practice has included advising HNWI, corporations, private clients, here and abroad, Middle Eastern royalty and the UK Government, on a wide variety of esoteric issues.

Brian is instructed for the MOD in the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan. He is also instructed to advise Boris Johnson in the Covid Inquiry. He has advised in relation to the Southport Inquiry.

Brian was leading counsel to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and to the Brook House Inquiry.

Brian was leading counsel for Post Office Ltd in the CCRC referrals to the Court of Appeal in 2020. The case is reported as R v Hamilton & Others [2021] EWCA Crim 577.

In May 2021, the Director of the SFO commissioned Brian to investigate and report into the collapse of the Serco trial of R v Woods and Marshall in 2021. His report was published by the SFO in 2022.

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Career

Call to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1981. First Senior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court from December 2010 to June 2013. Senior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court from 2002 to 2013. Junior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court from 1997 to 2002. Recorder of the Crown Court since 2003. Queen's Counsel in 2008. Bencher of Middle Temple in 2010. Joint Head of Chambers at 2BR from 2019.

Professional Memberships

South Eastern Circuit. Criminal Bar Association. Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.