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Craig Hassall

Year of Call:

1999

Education:

Thomas Sumpter Comprehensive School, Scunthorpe
John Leggott Sixth Form College, Scunthorpe
University College Oxford, 2:1 in Jurisprudence
Inns of Court School of Law, BVC, very competent
Awarded a Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship and the Sweet & Maxwell Prize by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple1999

Career:

Called to the Bar 1999, Inner Temple
Pupillage at Sovereign Chambers 1999-2000 supervised by Richard Newbury and Marilyn Fricker.
Member of the North Eastern Circuit
Member of the Criminal Bar Association
Young Barristers Committee of the Bar Council 2004-2006
Junior of the North Eastern Circuit 2006-2007
CPS Level 4 prosecutor
Appointed to List B of the Attorney General’s Panel of Prosecuting Advocates

Profile:

Craig has extensive experience in all areas of financial crime including fraud, money laundering and false accounting. He has dealt with cases involving transactions across jurisdictional boundaries and complex accounting information and has prosecuted and defended financial professionals.

For the prosecution Craig regularly appears on behalf of government departments including Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions. Recent cases have involved large-scale conspiracies to defraud the Benefits Agency, fraudulent evasion of £10 million of duty on smuggled cigarettes, credit card frauds and a number of frauds against the National Health Service.

Recent defence work has included money laundering, false accounting and theft of almost £1 million by a finance director. He also recently appeared as junior defence counsel in one of the largest confiscation applications ever made on this circuit, where the Serious and Organised Crime Agency sought an order of over £17 million.

Craig has experience of dealing with all stages of the confiscation regimes under both the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He recently represented the Department for Work and Pensions on a case in the Court of Appeal involving post-confiscation order reconsideration of overpaid benefits: R v Jarvis [2008] EWCA Crim 2296.

For further details please contact Yvonne Crosbie or Zoe Malir on 0113 245 1841.