Paul Greaney KC

Practice Areas

Specialises in serious crime, public inquiries and inquests, regulatory crime and professional discipline.

Scope of Practice:

• Public Inquiries (eg. Counsel to the Inquiry at the Manchester Arena Inquiry; counsel to a corporate core participant at the Grenfell Inquiry; counsel to a senior lawyer core participant at the Independent inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse; counsel for the Royal Military Police at the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan; advising a large corporate organisation in relation to the COVID inquiry);

• Inquests (eg. counsel for a prominent institutional client at the Hillsborough Inquests; counsel for the family at the Deepcut Inquest; counsel for the family in the Jack Ritchie Inquest (state regulation of the gambling sector); counsel for Manx Care and the DHSC (Isle of Man); counsel for NHSE in a recent inquest);

• Serious crime, including financial crime and crime with an international dimension;

• Regulatory crime, with an emphasis on the healthcare sector; health and safety enforcement; data protection; trading standards issues; environmental health and prosecutions arising out of planning disputes;

• Disciplinary proceedings, including proceedings before professional sporting bodies.

• Warrants and production orders.

• Public law, particularly claims relating to inquiries and inquests and the criminal justice system.