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About
Provided by Rupert Bowers KC
Practice Areas
Financial crime, public law challenges to criminal process, extradition, data protection and information rights, terrorist offences and funding, homicide.
Career
Rupert leads the chambers Business Crime team. His expertise as one of the country’s leading barristers in challenging search warrants, and the seizure of property and information, has been noted in the practitioner guides for over a decade.
Rupert is renowned for his ability to take unusual and difficult cases that overlap criminal and civil law and consequently has a broad practice in financial crime, asset freezing and private prosecutions, judicial review, extradition, data protection and information rights, espionage and terrorist offences, contempt of court and sports law and has represented a number of high profile individuals and entities including Harry Redknapp, Jermain Defoe, Lord Hanningfield in the parliamentary expenses scandal, George Galloway, West Ham Utd, James Tomkins, Ben Thatcher and Dr Edward Wojakovski.
He has been instructed in prosecutions brought under the Official Secrets Acts and as the lead advocate in the first Encrochat case before the Court of Appeal and upon judicial review of the European investigation order.
Professional Memberships
Called 1995; Silk 2015.
Fraud Lawyers Association
Criminal Bar Association
Publications
Rupert is an author of practitioner texts and publishes regular articles on a variety of legal topics which are available on Lexology and on chambers’ Insights page. He has also been published in various magazines including the Solicitors Journal, Counsel Magazine and The Law Society Gazette and previously wrote commentary for Lloyds Financial Law Reports. Rupert is the author, or a contributing author of the following:
• Information Rights: A Practitioner’s Guide to Data Protection, Freedom of Information and other Information Rights (Bloomsbury) (2023)
• Human Rights in Criminal Law (Bloomsbury) (2023)
• Blackstone’s Guide to the Terrorism Act 2006 (OUP) (2006)
Personal
Rupert enjoys music, acting and many sports including skiing, mountaineering, cycling, golf, squash and tennis.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Rupert Bowers KC regularly defends white-collar crime cases and has handled a number of matters concerning tax evasion, parliamentary expenses and money laundering. He is noted for his pre-charge financial crime work challenging search warrants and arrest and detention, as well as for his ability acting in private prosecutions.
Rupert Bowers KC regularly defends white-collar crime cases and has handled a number of matters concerning tax evasion, parliamentary expenses and money laundering. He is noted for his pre-charge financial crime work challenging search warrants and arrest and detention, as well as for his ability acting in private prosecutions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rupert is excellent, persistent and indefatigable. He is willing to take difficult and esoteric points and does so with charm."
"Rupert is excellent, persistent and indefatigable. He is willing to take difficult and esoteric points and does so with charm."
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