Paul Greaney KC

Practice Areas

Paul Greaney KC specialises in serious crime, public inquiries and inquests, regulatory crime and professional discipline.

Scope of Practice

• Public Inquiries and Inquests;

Current instructions include acting as Counsel (CTI) to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, acting as leading counsel for the Royal Military Police at the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan, acting as leading counsel to a corporate core participant at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and advising a large corporate organisation in relation to the COVID Inquiry and the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Concluded instructions include acting as Counsel (CTI) to the Manchester Arena Inquiry and acting as leading counsel for a senior lawyer core participant at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse;

• Serious crime, including financial crime and crime with an international dimension. Continues to maintain a major profile in serious crime and has prosecuted and defended in many cases of national importance;

• Regulatory crime, with an emphasis on the healthcare sector (having represented many large private organisations and NHS Trusts in such cases); health and safety enforcement; data protection (having represented an international company in a prosecution brought by the ICO); trading standards issues; environmental health;

• Disciplinary proceedings;

• Licensing;

• Warrants and production orders, including acting on behalf of a major media organisation on such issues arising out of the phone hacking investigation;

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