Henry Skudra Editor

William Hays is ranked in both Chambers UK and Legal 500, appearing in a wide range of tribunals at all levels in crime and public law. Appointments include the Attorney General's panel for civil litigation and the panels maintained by the Serious Fraud Office. Will is a contributor to Blackstone's Criminal Practice and has been published in Judicial Review and the Lloyd's Law Reports. His Honour Judge Michael Hopmeier currently sits at Southwark Crown Court. He specialises in economic crime and confiscation and lectures to judges at the Judicial College on the Proceeds of Crime Act. In 2018 he was appointed to the Advisory Editorial Board of Blackstones' Criminal Practice. In the same year he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee to the International Justice Partnership, York University, Toronto, Canada. He is an editor of Halsbury's Laws of England on the Chapter on Money-laundering. Paul Jarvis is a Junior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court, appointed by the Attorney General to prosecute the most serious offences including murder and terrorism. Alongside prosecuting, Paul maintains a busy private defence practice, mainly in the areas of corporate and financial crime where his expertise is sought at all stages of proceedings. Judge Rupert Jones was appointed a salaried Judge of the Upper Tribunal based at the Rolls Building in London in 2018 and assigned to the Administrative Appeals Chamber. In 2020 he was also assigned to the Tax & Chancery Chamber. In 2022 he was appointed the Chief Justice of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha and was authorised under s 9(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 to sit as a Judge of the High Court in England and Wales. He is the co-author and co-editor of Ward and Jones on National Security Law, Procedure and Practice published by OUP (2021). Oliver Powell is ranked in both Chambers & Partners (UK) and The Legal 500 (in five practice areas). He undertakes instructions that involve the regulation of business activity and commerce. His practice encompasses: asset forfeiture & civil recovery; business crime; civil fraud; corporate investigations; financial services; indirect tax and sanctions. Henry Skudra enjoys a specialist confiscation practice having undertaken confiscation work since he first began his legal career. His expertise includes all areas of POCA 2002 (and its statutory predecessors) as well as complicated civil recovery/Part 5, insolvency and international co-operation matters. This includes work in the High Court and Court of Appeal. Henry also undertakes a significant amount of civil law, quasi-criminal, and private prosecution work. Judge Mark Sutherland Williams was appointed Resident Judge at Hatton Cross, London in 2017, and in 2020 appointed President of the First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) and as a Judge of the Upper Tribunal. In 2022 he was authorised to sit as a Judge of the High Court, King's Bench Division. He is a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple.