Dominic Lewis
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 2 : Financial Crime
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Band 2
About
Provided by Dominic Lewis
Practice Areas
Financial crime: Dominic is a highly experienced criminal practitioner, with particular expertise in the prosecution and defence of those charged with serious fraud and money laundering offences. His criminal practice extends to the related area of asset recovery, both criminal and civil, including restraint and confiscation proceedings, and actions for freezing orders and civil recovery of the proceeds of crime.
General crime: Over twenty years in practice prosecuting and defending across the full spectrum of criminal cases, including homicide, serious sexual offences, terrorism, and large-scale drugs conspiracies.
Public law: Considerable experience of engaging in public law challenges to government decisions in the context of immigration rights, having appeared in this connection in SIAC, the Administrative Court, and the Court of Appeal as a member of the Attorney-General’s panel of Special Advocates.
Other: In recent years Dominic has been engaged to provide advice on a number of appeals against conviction from various Commonwealth jurisdictions to the Privy Council. He is a reviewer for Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit), and one of the Vice-Chairs of the Bar Council’s Law Reform Committee.
Dominic is Direct Access qualified.
Career
Member of 5, Paper Buildings since completion of pupillage
Professional Memberships
CBA, South Eastern Circuit