Nicholas Mather

Year of Call: 1998

Nick Mather has considerable experience in all areas of serious crime as a junior and leading junior. His areas of focus include fraud and white collar crime, including NHS fraud and passport fraud, large-scale drugs offences, asset forfeiture and confiscation hearings, sexual offences, including historic child abuse, child pornography, rape and kidnap, firearms, violent crime, homicide, and public order offences.

A particular area of expertise is handling cases involving sensitive public interest immunity and complex third party disclosure issues, such as informant evidence, covert surveillance and the interception of communications (including information acquired by the NCIS, NCS, Special Branch, Social Services, the IPCC and other agencies). His flare for handling situations requiring both technical excellence and discretion has also given him a growing reputation for matters involving sensitive media or political issues, including those with celebrities or serving police officers as defendants.

Nick’s highlights have included appearing in the first conviction for GBH by reckless infection with HIV, as well as cases arising out of Operation Manzana, involving child prostitution and the supply of drugs, and prosecutions resulting from Operation Aciento, which concerned the large-scale supply of class A drugs and firearms in West End nightclubs. His fraud caseload has taken in a recent hi-tech cash machine fraud, a large-volume passport fraud, an NHS fraud, and money laundering; he is regularly instructed in frauds involving gambling and casinos. He has experience in managing substantial volumes of evidence and disclosure and led the prosecution team in cases arising out of the May Day Riots in Central London in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He is a member of the South Eastern Circuit and the Criminal Bar Association.