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Henry Skudra

Henry Skudra

  • Called to BAR: 2012
  • Company Disputes
  • Criminal Law
  • Food regulation
  • Health & Safety
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy
  • Judicial Review
  • Landlord & Tenant (Property)
  • Licensing
  • Money Claims & Debt
  • Motoring Offences
  • Personal Injury
  • Proceeds of Crime
  • Professional Regulation

Summary

Instructed in a wide variety of complex criminal matters by both prosecution and defence with very significant expertise in confiscation proceedings (P.O.C.A. 2002), fraud, and asset recovery. He is a grade 3 prosecutor in those specialist areas. Henry also undertakes a significant amount of civil law, quasi-criminal and private prosecution work – both litigated and by providing focused advice on strategic and evidential issues. Career background Between graduation and pupillage, Henry worked in various legal roles: Assistant editor of Banks on Sentence. Worked at the Law Commission in the criminal law team resolving detailed legal and practical problems and assisting in the publication of reports: areas of work included sentencing, contempt of court, unfitness to plead and firearms. Paralegal at a firm of solicitors dealing with several different fields of practice, including attending on clients arrested and detained at police stations.

Specialist areas of law include

  • Company Disputes
  • Criminal Law
  • Food regulation
  • Health & Safety
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy
  • Judicial Review
  • Landlord & Tenant (Property)
  • Licensing
  • Money Claims & Debt
  • Motoring Offences
  • Personal Injury
  • Proceeds of Crime
  • Professional Regulation

Profile description

Practice details

Crime and Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 proceedings
Has a particular specialist interest in fraud, money laundering and asset recovery, developed during research for academic thesis, and has detailed knowledge of the provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act - unrivalled for a junior barrister of 5 years' call.

Already experienced in Crown Court matters, having been instructed in a variety of cases including multi-defendant trials, charges of robbery, fraud, drugs offences of all gravity, conspiracy to convert criminal property, assaults (up to and including s.18 matters), weapons offences and public order matters.

Some of those cases have involved dealing with complex expert evidence, vulnerable witnesses, and young or otherwise vulnerable defendants.

Complementing a defence practise by prosecuting for the C.P.S. , the Home Office, H.M.R.C., the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Probation Service.  This ensures all aspects of cases are appreciated, from both sides, and intimate knowledge of prosecution strategies and the workings of prosecution agencies can be used to a client's advantage. 

Also conducts quasi-criminal proceedings, including injunctions and other preventative orders.  Recent such instructions include a complex criminal costs application, and advising on appealing Proceeds of Crime Act matters to the Court of Appeal. 

 

Regulatory

Experienced in defending and prosecuting regulatory matters, including contraventions of planning law, insolvency law, food hygiene law, trade marks and customs legislation.  This also extends to dealing with any consequential Proceeds of Crime Act matters. 

 

Common Law

Has been instructed to provide written advice and to represent claimants and defendants in a broad range of matters – including those of a sensitive and high value nature.  These have included corporate and personal insolvency matters (drawing on knowledge gained from masters degree research), property / landlord and tenant, personal injury, consumer disputes, and has experience in the First-tier Tribunal (Tax) and (Property) as well as the Employment Tribunal. 

 

Publications

-‘Drug-Driving : Bringing the Law up to Speed’ (2015) 179 Criminal Law & Justice Weekly 27
-‘R v Yasain – delineating the re-opening of appeals’ [2015] 9 Archbold Review 4
-‘Contempt of court – criminal court reporting’ [2014] 4 Archbold Review 4
-‘Fraudulent trading as a creditor’s remedy – Time for a rethink ?’ (2013) 94 Amicus Curiae: the journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 11


Career background

Between graduation and pupillage, worked in various legal roles :
-assistant editor of Banks on Sentence
-worked at the Law Commission in the criminal law team resolving detailed legal and practical problems and assisting in the -publication of reports : areas of work included sentencing, contempt of court, unfitness to plead, firearms
-paralegal at a firm of solicitors dealing with several different fields of practice, including attending on clients arrested and detained at police stations
 

Other information

-a member of the Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association (POCLA)
-has carried out pro bono work for the North East Prisoner After-care Society, and for the Kalisher Trust

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