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Eleanor Mawrey
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 2 : Financial Crime
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Band 2
About
Provided by Eleanor Mawrey
Practice Areas
Eleanor has built up a successful practice dealing with the highest level of financial crime. She regularly prosecutes and defends in high value cases; often where the defendant is a professional and/or other position of authority. She has been praised for her ability to unpick expert evidence, making it accessible to a jury and her success in cross examining expert-witnesses.
Eleanor has considerable experience in the following areas: Bribery and corruption, Fraud (including high value investment fraud, income tax fraud and VAT evasion), Insider dealing/market abuse and other FSMA 2000/FSA 2012 offences.
Recent cases: first junior for the SFO in the high-profile corruption case R v GPT Ltd, Cook & Others, R v Duodu & Others (Gift Aid fraud using Charities/Churches), R v Major and Attra (fraud committed by a solicitor and translator on the Legal Aid Agency), and Das v Asplin (CEO of a company). Eleanor also deals frequently with Proceeds of Crime Act [POCA] matters including confiscation and restraint matters. She regularly appears in high value applications for the detention of cash or freezing of assets/accounts.
Career
Called 2001.
Bencher of Gray’s Inn.
Eleanor is a CPS Grade 4 Fraud Specialist, a SFO A Panel Advocate and a Grade B Regulatory list (Health and Safety and Environmental Law).
Professional Memberships
Eleanor is the Co-Vice Chair of the Bar Council’s Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility Committee. She is also a CBA committee member and its Co-Director of Equality and Diversity.
Publications
Eleanor regularly lectures on the Fraud Act.
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