Neil Hawes QC
Year of Call: 1989 LLB (Hons)
Year of Silk: 2010
Affiliations: Public Access Bar Assn
Specialist Areas: Serious Crime, Confiscation, Restraint & Asset Recovery Proceedings, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, Commercial Crime, Regulatory & Compliance Work
Biography
A Queen’s Counsel since 2010, Neil Hawes is a specialist criminal, serious white collar fraud and commercial crime advocate who is regularly instructed by nationally known firms. His principal speciality in recent years has been representing individuals and companies in criminal proceedings or tribunals and giving advice during investigative stages. He has extensive experience of defending SFO cases, in particular defending individuals alleged to have committed cartel offences and investigations, serious revenue, MTIC, money laundering offences, bribery, corruption and fraud. He regularly advises on and appears in confiscation cases.
He advises on regulatory and criminal FSA investigations and comes to this work with a background of ‘heavyweight’ general crime, having appeared in a number of serious multi-handed cases of murder, robberies, drugs and other related crimes.
Mr Hawes lectures on fraud, bribery, confiscation and cartel offences and is presently instructed in cases concerning:
Significant fraud on the Department of Education.
Significant MTIC fraud
An SFO advanced fee fraud
An CPS/FSA ‘boiler room’ prosecution
Advising on a number of FSA enquiries
Corruption and bribery of MOD Officers
Various significant confiscation cases
Advises on and appear regularly in restraint proceedings
Representing a defendant on a CCRC Murder reference to the Court of Appeal
RECOMMENDATIONS
Chambers Directory 2011 (recommended in Criminal Fraud) writes that "great things are expected of him" and that a solicitor has likened him to a "Young Ken McDonald".
Chambers Directory 2009 (recommended in Criminal Fraud) describes him as “extremely hard working…”