Nicholas Howard Hamblin

Called 1981   |   Email: nh@westgate-chambers.co.uk

Legal 500:“has defended most types of fraud, including carousel and mortgage fraud – with considerable ingenuity’, ‘an ingenious advocate”’.
Chambers & Partners:“is greatly experienced and an obvious choice for fraud cases. Always well prepared, he handles a significant number of firearm regulatory appeals on top of his white-collar crime cases”.

Area of Practice

All levels of crime, prosecution and defence including in particularly regulatory work including firearms, liquor licensing and animal welfare.

Notable Cases

• R-v-Green – VAT Fraud.
• R-v-Genisten – Murder.
• R-v-Dubery (& others) – Mortgage fraud.
• R-v-McDonagh (& others) – Conspiracy to steal.
• R-v-Serifi (& others) – Instructed by Customs on multi handed heroin conspiracy.
• R-v-Munley – Murder (featured in The Real Cracker).
• R –v- Wells (& others) – 20 million carousel fraud.
• R-v-Pound – at the time, the longest running criminal trial in English history.

Qualifications

B.A. (Hons) Business Law

Professional Associations

South Eastern Circuit
Criminal Bar Association
Sussex Bar Mess

Additional Information

Appointed Junior Counsel to the Attorney General’s Panel of Prosecuting Advocates.

Ranked in legal editorials as a specialist in white-collar crime.

Freeman of the City of London.

Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers.

Pupil Supervisor.

Interests

Shooting, walking, cinema, art and music.