Christopher Convey

Year of Call: 1994

A specialist in cases involving the Drug Trafficking Act 1994, Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Christopher Convey has particular interest in asset forfeiture and confiscation, especially high value DTA and CJA confiscation proceedings. Money laundering, financial crime and counterfeiting also form significant elements of his practice.

Christopher’s clients include the CPS, Treasury Solicitors, HM Revenue and Customs, The Department of Work and Pensions, The Medicines Control Agency, The Legal Services Commission, and a range of local authorities. He is also frequently asked to represent and protect the interests of third parties and victims affected by asset forfeiture and confiscation proceedings in the High Court and Crown Court.

Recent high-profile instructions have included the successful appeal of a multi-million pound confiscation order, and the trial of the largest known organised people trafficking case in the UK. International work, meanwhile, has included acting for the Attorney General for Jersey in the jurisdiction’s first international money laundering prosecution, and advising HM Attorney General for the Turks and Caicos Islands in a multi-million dollar international money laundering matter.