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Gary Pons

Gary Pons

  • Called to BAR: 1995
  • Criminal Law
  • Inquests
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy
  • Licensing
  • Money Claims & Debt
  • Motoring Offences
  • Proceeds of Crime

Summary

Gary is an experienced criminal and extradition barrister who acts in serious and complex cases, Gary's criminal work often involves a financial element. He has expertise in cases involving fraud, money laundering, murder and serious sexual offences. Gary is also highly proficient in cases involving asset forfeiture and proceeds of crime.

Specialist areas of law include

  • Criminal Law
  • Inquests
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy
  • Licensing
  • Money Claims & Debt
  • Motoring Offences
  • Proceeds of Crime

Profile description

Asset Recovery, Civil Fraud & Confiscation

Gary is a specialist in the field of asset forfeiture and confiscation. He acts for the Receiver in enforcement hearings in the High Court. He has particular expertise in the relation to both confiscation and enforcement concerning matrimonial property and he has lectured on this subject. He is on the approved CPS list of Proceeds of Crime Act advocates. Gary regularly appears on behalf of the applicant in cash forfeiture proceedings under POCA.

He has recently represented the London Borough of Hackney in relation to an application to obtain a Charging Order under Criminal Justice Act 1988.

He is currently instructed to represent the Claimant in an action to enforce a $2 million US Judgment.  

Business Crime

Gary has significant experience acting for clients, both prosecution and defence, in relation to large scale fraud, white collar crime and a variety of financial crime cases.

Gary's business crime work dovetails with his asset recovery, confiscation and civil fraud work, which often involves technical points of law and financial detail.

He is currently instructed to represent the corporate defendant in matters as varied as Consumer Protection offences, Companies Act offences and Private Security Industry Act offences.

Crime

Gary acts for both the prosecution and defence in criminal cases. He is a grade 3 prosecutor and approved rape counsel. He regularly prosecutes both financial and sexual criminal offences. He is as adept at handling the financial requirements required to prosecuting complex fraud cases as he dealing with vulnerable witnesses in sex cases. Gary is a skilled prosecutor of sexual offences and is accredited on the Rape Panel. He frequently prosecutes serious sexual offences.

Gary has represented defendants throughout his career at the Bar. He has acted in the most serious of criminal cases including as junior counsel in allegations of murder, conspiracy to murder and appearing alone in relation to an attempted murder.

Gary left the Bar in 2002 for an eighteen month period during which he was employed in-house by McCormacks Solicitors. In his time there he became an accredited police station representative. He has gone on to use this to become one of the first barristers in England and Wales to be placed on the Duty Solicitor Scheme.

Extradition & International

Gary is an experienced extradition practitioner. He was junior counsel for the third appellant Rozanski in the Supreme Court case of Pomiechowski and others.

Gary represented a defendant in a large scale and international people trafficking case as junior counsel in 2005 and then represented the same defendant nearly six years later in extradition proceedings where his extradition was sought by France. Gary successfully argued that the double jeopardy rule prevented his extradition.

Gary has also appeared in a number of High Court Appeals.

Professional Discipline & Regulatory

Gary has experience in regulatory work in the Magistrates Court. He has appeared for local authorities in matters as wide ranging as application for closure orders environmental prosecutions, trademark and copyright, and consumer protection.

He has represented defendants in relation to offences under the consumer protection from unfair trading regulations, fire safety prosecutions and in tree preservation cases.

Gary has acted for both the police and the licensee in Sub-Committee Licensing Hearings. He regularly sits as a legal advisor to the Royal Borough of Greenwich Sub Committee in respect of their more high profile licensing hearings. Gary has conducted both licensing appeals and prosecutions under the Licensing Act in the Magistrates Court.

Gary frequently provides detailed lectures to the London Borough Legal Alliance on various aspects of Licensing.

Gary is also an appointed advocate for the General Dental Council (GDC).

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