Lincoln House Chambers has a national reputation for being a leading Chambers for Fraud, Business Crime and Financial Regulation. Both Chambers, and its individual members, are recommended year after year as being leaders in this specialist area.
Members of Lincoln House Chambers have significant experience both defending, and prosecuting, in the full spectrum of financial crime and regulation cases brought before the criminal courts and various other tribunals. In addition to the specialist advocacy service, we are also regularly instructed to advise in areas such as abuse of process, warrants, disclosure, legal professional privilege, restraint and forfeiture proceedings, confiscation and asset recovery, international and cross-border investigations and mutual assistance cases.
Over the past 25 years, Lincoln House Chambers have had a presence in the most significant cases brought before the criminal courts. We have acted in pension frauds, investment frauds, cartel and competition cases, stock market frauds, banking frauds, “Ponzi Schemes”, insider trading, boiler room frauds, diversion frauds, property frauds and advanced fee frauds. VAT and taxation frauds are areas of specific interest as our service spans both the Criminal Court and the Tax Tribunals.
Several members of Lincoln House Chambers are considered to be national leaders in the challenging HMRC, and other agencies and authorities, following seizures of cash and other criminal finance litigation. We regularly defend applications for freezing, restraint and confiscation orders and orders for asset forfeiture.
In the vast majority of financial crime cases we will not accept instructions on a direct access basis. We do however have a very specialist knowledge of, and superb working relationship with, the leading specialist solicitors covering these areas. We are able to advise and assist clients in relation to identifying and instructing the very best legal team for their case.
“The best chambers for criminal commercial fraud work outside London.” Chambers & Partners
“Lincoln House Chambers attracts nationwide instructions for serious and white-collar crime, fraud and money laundering.” Legal 500
“Quoted as the top set in Manchester and a national contender for crime work, Lincoln House Chambers has a formidable reputation for heavy fraud and serious criminal work.” Legal 500