Cases

Renowned for its formidable track record, Bark & Co Solicitors has successfully represented many of the most notable criminal defence cases to have hit the headlines in recent years.

We are constantly receiving new instructions and continue to play a crucial part in a significant number of the major litigations currently in progress. Below is an example of one of our cases.

Regina vs Finch - Defence of alleged fraud and money laundering in excess of £15 million… ruling: case dismissed!

Regina versus Chris Finch and others Making front page news and attracting much publicity, this highly prominent money laundering prosecution - involving sums in excess of £15 million - was brought following an undercover ‘sting’ operation in both London and Gibraltar, running for almost five years.

In our criminal defence role on behalf not only of our client, but of two co-defendants, in January 2002 Bark & Co Solicitors lodged a pre-trial abuse of process application based on entrapment.

Believed to have been the longest legal argument in the history of litigation, it was only concluded some 18 months later, when His Honour Judge Bathurst Norman stayed the case against all defendants on a number of grounds, including “massively illegal” police conduct. In these benchmark proceedings, the Judge further ruled that the operation amounted to “State created crime”, and that our client had been a victim of entrapment.