Thomas Buxton
Year of Call: 1983 LLB (Nottingham)
Languages: Fluent Spanish
Affiliations: South Eastern Circuit
Appointments: Gray’s Inn Advocacy Trainer since 2003
Specialist Areas: General Crime, Serious Crime, Homicide, Serious Violent Offences, Firearms, Large Drugs Related Offences, Sexual Offences, Confiscation, Restraint & Asset Recovery Proceedings, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, MTIC Fraud , Money Laundering, DTI Offences, Regulatory & Compliance Work, Police Disciplinary Tribunals, Public Enquiries
Biography
Thomas Buxton is an exclusively criminal practitioner who both prosecutes and defends, providing specialist advice and advocacy at all stages of criminal, disciplinary and confiscation proceedings. His main areas of practice include:
Fraud/regulatory investigation and prosecutions
Commercial fraud cases and associated areas such as asset restraint
Forfeiture and recovery proceedings
Money laundering
Controlled drugs
VAT fraud
Murder/manslaughter
Child cruelty and sexual abuse
He has more recently been specialising in fraud work, both prosecuting for the Serious Fraud Office, and defending in serious and complex cases, regularly as leading junior.
Thomas served for three years on the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council, and previously as a member of the Panel of Prosecuting Advocates for the Bar Council.