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About
Provided by Joseph Hart
Practice Areas
Alongside a successful Crown Court practice in serious crime Joseph Hart regularly acts in regulatory matters such as health and safety prosecutions in incidents involving death; significant breaches of fire safety regulations and prosecutions for environmental crime. He is on the government's national list of special regulatory advocates in health and safety and environmental law. His experience of jury-based advocacy is an asset in areas of law often dominated by advocates who lack a broad Crown Court experience and he provides robust trial focused advice and quick thinking to the most complex regulatory cases. His inquest work is undertaken at a national level focusing on those cases with a regulatory criminal element. Joseph Hart has an expanding practice in cases involving professional discipline.
Career
Barrister at Deans Court since 2000.
Assistant Coroner for Liverpool and the Wirral since 2016.
Governing Bencher, Inner Temple since 2019
Recorder since 2020
Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Advocate of the Supreme Court of St Helena
Approved counsel for the Falkland Islands
Category 4 Crown Prosecutor (RASSO)
Category B Government Regulatory counsel
Personal
Joseph Hart read Jurisprudence and French at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He speaks Italian and French fluently; and has basic German. Joseph regularly attends the International Bar Association Conferences and was selected to be a member of the Bar Council’s 2012 trade delegation to China.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Joseph Hart of Deans Court Chambers offers a broad environmental law practice with particular expertise in the field of waste management. He frequently acts for local authorities and regulatory bodies, among other parties.
Joseph Hart is instructed by both the defence and the prosecution in cases involving breaches of health and safety regulations. His work includes workplace accidents andfire safety matters.He regularly representsparties at inquests.
Joseph Hart is instructed in sensitive inquests focusing on accidents in the workplace. In addition to counsel work, he sits as an assistant coroner.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Joseph is excellent to work with and provides a high-quality, client-focused and personable service."
"Joseph Hart is super. He's a calm and collected individual."
"Joe provides a high-quality, client-focused and personable service."
"Joseph is excellent to work with and provides a high-quality, client-focused and personable service."
"Joseph Hart is super. He's a calm and collected individual."
"Joe provides a high-quality, client-focused and personable service."
