Areas of Law
Serious fraud in both the criminal and the civil courts.
Serious organised crime, including murder, people trafficking, drugs importations, evasion of duties, and money laundering.
Regulatory law, in particular health and safety and trading standards.
Serious sexual offences.
Christopher is a Grade 4 prosecutor for the CPS, and specialist rape prosecutor.
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Serious Crime
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R v Crabtree & Crabtree [2022]. Murder.
R v Hammond [2022]. A series of serious sexual offences against vulnerable women in the Norwich area.
Operation Onston [2021]. 5 handed kidnapping case, involving torture.
R v W & O [2021]. Murder – both defendants were children.
R v Wright [2020]. Described by the trial judge as one of the worst cases of child abuse ever to come before the criminal courts in England and Wales.
R v Komolafe & Ors [2018]. International money laundering conspiracy.
R v Dale & ors [2018]. Attempted murder.
R v O’Neil & Ors [2018] Advance fee fraud in the luxury car industry.
R v Boyd & Ors [2018 EWCA Crim 693 Armed robbery.
R v Nasser & Ors [2017] Conspiracy to defraud.
R v Palmer [2017] Fraudulent trading in the motor vehicle industry.
R v Abbas [2017] EWCA Crim 2015. Kidnapping.
Operation Dante [2016-17] International drugs smuggling conspiracy.
Operation Sediment [2016] Conspiracy to import counterfeit cigarettes from China.
R v Ghadiri [2016] Conspiracy to defraud the Revenue and the Charities Commission.
Operation Frost [2016] Kidnapping conspiracy.
R v Higley & Ors [2014 – 2015] Drugs and money laundering conspiracy.
A & Ors [2010] Marine insurance fraud.
R v Holland & Ors [2009] Contract kidnapping with firearms.
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Regulatory Law
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R v RP [2017] Fraudulent trading in the motor vehicle industry.
Beckwill Builders [2015] Fraudulent trading in the building industry.
Operation Neptune [2014] Fraudulent trading in the bottled water industry.
Operation Magnet [2011] multi-million pound housing benefit fraud.
R v Enviro-Waste [2009] Triple fatality in the farming industry.
R v Gibson & W [2008] Loss adjusting fraud.
High profile health and safety prosecutions of major companies, such as John Mowlem, Bison Structures, Balfour Beatty, Ipswich Docks, Carillion, and the Thames Tunnels Project.
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MTIC Fraud/Tax Appeals
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CCA Distribution Limited v HMRC [2019]; [2017] EWCA Civ 1899.
Vale Europe v HMRC [2018] UKFTT 662 (TC)
Synectiv v HMRC [2018] UKFTT 92 (TC); [2013] UKFTT 677 (TC)
Fairford Group PLC v HMRC [2015]
Direct Communications Limited v HMRC [2015]
Intekx Limited v HMRC [2014] UKFTT 277 (TC)
Foneshops Limited v HMRC [2013]: £20 million MTIC fraud in the First Tier Tax Tribunal.
Softhouse Consulting Limited v HMRC [2014] STI 748.
Global Enterprises v HMRC [2013] UKFTT 014 (TC) Harwich GSM Limited v HMRC [2012] UKFTT 279.
HT Purser Limited v HMRC [2011] UKFTT 860 (TC)
Annova Limited v HMRC [2011] UKFTT 742 (TC); [2014 UKUT 28 (TCC).
Flashpoint Technology Limited v HMRC [2011] UKFTT 353 (TC)
Publications
A Conspiracy of Serpents [Austin Macauley, 2022].
Available from bookshops in paperback, and online in paperback and as an e-book.
Non-Fiction:
Forthcoming publication: Jane Austen: Her Art, Life and Times.
Professional Memberships
- Criminal Bar Association
- South-Eastern Circuit
Awards, Qualifications & Other
- MA. (Oxon)
- Grade 4 CPS Counsel
- CPS Rasso Panel
Languages
- French
- German
- Polish
Direct Access
Christopher Kerr is approved to accept instructions direct from international and UK clients on a direct access basis, without the need for a solicitor intermediary in appropriate cases.