Nick Barraclough

Practice Areas

Nick’s practice is in heavyweight general crime, fraud and money laundering, and serious sexual cases. He frequently leads, often against or co-defending with KC’s in complex and serous cases and is very much a jury advocate. He is tactically aware, a strategic thinker, and a team player.

Recently he has successfully defended as leader in cases of conspiracies to murder (client was acquitted after a submission of no case to answer), manslaughter/robbery, a complex VHCC ‘crash for crash’ fraud/tax case (which was stayed for abuse of process), a £54 million money laundering (client acquitted of all but one minor charge), a gangland kidnap/ransom case, gang shooting of a prominent rapper, a conspiracy to shoot a rival gang member, human trafficking and child grooming/rape.

He is currently instructed in cases involving a £32million POCA case, a large-scale importation of cocaine, a boiler-room fraud, money laundering, rogue trader fraud, attempted murder.

As a Grade 4/RASSO prosecutor he undertook complex cases, e.g. the rogue surgeon Ian Paterson sentenced to 20 years for operating unnecessarily on patients. Recently, however, he has only defended.

Professional Memberships

Criminal Bar Association (Committee Member)

Fraud Lawyers Association

Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers