Martin Hicks QC

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Practice Areas

Martin Hicks QC is consistently recommended by the leading industry directories as a leading defence Silk in serious crime and fraud both domestic and international, including the Crown Dependencies and the Caribbean. He acts for individual defendants, corporate clients, their directors and officers and national governments and agencies. He also represents accountants, solicitors and others who face proceedings arising out of their work.

Martin gained prominence as a junior in R v Pryce, a 17-year-old musician accused of hacking into the computer systems of NASA and the Pentagon. He appeared in the “fake sheik” stings by the News of the World, the series of celebrity Rolex robberies and a major mobile phone heist at Heathrow airport.

In Silk he acted in the “Victoria Beckham Kidnap Plot”, the bogus “MI5 kidnapper”, the “Aston Riots Murder”, the 24/7 bombings, “Cash for Crash Claims”, the £220 million “Lord of Fraud Plot”, the 200 million euro fraud Allseas v Sultana and successfully defended high placed journalists in Operation Elveden. Recently, he secured an acquittal for a GP charged with defrauding a French resistance patriot suffering from dementia and a suspended sentence for an Icelandic smuggler of £53million of endangered eels.

Career

2007: Called to Trinidad Bar

2003: Appointed Queen's Counsel

2001: Appointed to SFO Panel

1989-1999: CLE Advocacy Instructor

1977: Year of Call

Professional Memberships

Criminal Bar Association

Fraud Lawyers Association

South Eastern Circuit