Eleanor Mawrey
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 2 : Financial Crime
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About
Provided by Eleanor Mawrey
Practice Areas
Eleanor has built up a successful practice dealing with the highest level of financial crime. She regularly prosecutes and defends in high value cases; often where the defendant is a professional and/or other position of authority. She has been praised for her ability to unpick expert evidence, making it accessible to a jury and her success in cross examining expert-witnesses.
Eleanor has considerable experience in the following areas: Bribery and corruption, Fraud (including high value investment fraud, income tax fraud and VAT evasion), Insider dealing/market abuse and other FSMA 2000/FSA 2012 offences.
Recent cases: first junior for the SFO in the high-profile corruption case R v GPT Ltd, Cook & Others, R v Duodu & Others (Gift Aid fraud using Charities/Churches), R v Major and Attra (fraud committed by a solicitor and translator on the Legal Aid Agency), and Das v Asplin (CEO of a company). Eleanor also deals frequently with Proceeds of Crime Act [POCA] matters including confiscation and restraint matters. She regularly appears in high value applications for the detention of cash or freezing of assets/accounts.
Career
Called 2001.
Bencher of Gray’s Inn.
Eleanor is a CPS Grade 4 Fraud Specialist, a SFO A Panel Advocate and a Grade B Regulatory list (Health and Safety and Environmental Law).
Professional Memberships
Eleanor is the Co-Vice Chair of the Bar Council’s Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility Committee. She is also a CBA committee member and its Co-Director of Equality and Diversity.
Publications
Eleanor regularly lectures on the Fraud Act.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Eleanor Mawrey has extensive experience of financial crime work and acts as both a prosecution and defence junior. She is valued for her expertise in handling unused material and for her understanding of disclosure obligations. Mawrey has additional expertise in private prosecutions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is fantastic and really hard-working, with a fantastic grasp of the issues. She knows how to make a short but devastating and powerful point."
"Eleanor is an extremely able barrister who is always one step ahead and draws on her vast experience and knowledge to advise accordingly."
"Eleanor is a very experienced practitioner who is always thoroughly prepared and goes the extra mile."
"She is fantastic and really hard-working, with a fantastic grasp of the issues. She knows how to make a short but devastating and powerful point."
"Eleanor is an extremely able barrister who is always one step ahead and draws on her vast experience and knowledge to advise accordingly."
"Eleanor is a very experienced practitioner who is always thoroughly prepared and goes the extra mile."