David Batcup
Year of Call: 1974 LLB (Hons) London
Affiliations: South Eastern Circuit
Appointments: Recorder
Specialist Areas: Homicide, Large Drugs Related Offences, Sexual Offences, Confiscation, Restraint & Asset Recovery Proceedings, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, Money Laundering, Regulatory & Compliance Work
Biography
David Batcup is a highly experienced barrister regularly instructed as a leading junior in all areas of serious crime. He has notable regulatory experience in Health and Safety offences and defending DEFRA prosecutions for alleged breaches of fishing quotas. His practice is focused around his areas of particular experience which include:
Homicide
Confiscation
Serious Sexual Offences
Major Drug Trafficking
Armed Robberies
Money Laundering
Serious Fraud
Regulatory & Compliance Work
David is regularly instructed as a leading junior in complex and demanding cases – representing company directors; multiple child abuse allegations arising out of lengthy police investigations into abuse in local authority or government institutions often involving difficult and extensive issues of third party disclosure; allegations of participation in armed criminal gangs, the subject of lengthy surveillance operations; multi-million pound Revenue diversion frauds; substantial drugs importation/trafficking and money laundering cases and the technical and complicated issues arising out of the confiscation hearings in such cases.