Jeremy Barnett - Year of call: 1980

Jeremy has been a practising Barrister for 30 years and sits as a Recorder in the Crown and County Courts.  He concentrates on serious criminal cases and moved into heavy fraud work in the 1990s, appearing in a number of the largest fraud trials in the North of England.

www.jeremybarnett.co.uk

Regulatorybreach.com is now incorporated in Jeremy's blogs

Jeremy began representing companies in the baby products and toy industries 15 years ago, and has worked with other members of chambers to turn St Pauls into one of the leading regulatory and professional disciplinary sets in the country.
From his heavy fraud work, Jeremy developed an interest in IT, in particular document search and retrieval. In 2002 he was the founder of the Court 21 project at Leeds University, an academic joint venture between the departments of Law, Business, Computing and Courtroom 21 at the William and Mary School of Law, Virginia USA, specialising in virtual hearings across the internet .

He was appointed the visiting Professor of Law Informatics in the Department of computing from 2005 – 2010 and was the co author of a paper with Professor Pete Dew entitled ‘E Legal Services to speed up Justice for B2B systems’. This research proposed a new platform for online dispute resolution [ODR],, designed to send critical information from large data sets from parties in remote locations, engaged in large scale transactions see www.court21.ac.uk and www.legaltechcenter.net.

Jeremy was appointed Chair of the Bar Council IT panel in 2005 that consulted on all areas of IT for practitioners. He was part of a delegation that visited China in 2008 to promote a UK China Mediation Service, and is still pursuing that objective with the Association of Northern Mediators.

He has also recently supervised an exciting research paper that has been published for publication in the Stair 11 proceedings entitled’ Semantic key word search for expert witness discovery’, based upon his practice in Toy Safety www.ftsm.ukm.my/stair11.

In recent years Jeremy has developed an interest in Climate Change Law, in particular Biofuels and Carbon Capture Storage. He is a member of the International Energy Agency Regulators network and attended the world climate change conference at Posnam.

He is now specialising in the emerging subject of Electrical Energy Storage, for Electric Vehicles and the ‘Smart Grid’, and in May 2011 was invited to speak on regulatory issues that arise with this new technology at the Sino British Workshop in Beijing.

Notable Environmental Cases

Liverpool TS v TPlc Waste packaging essential requirements. Case withdrawn following submissions re due diligence. Costs order

Liverpool TS v E Ltd. Waste packaging essential requirements.  Case withdrawn following submissions re obligations of distributors in supply chain. Costs order

Northampton v BR Ltd. Waste packaging essential requirements. Case withdrawn following submissions of definition of packaging. Costs order

Re CC Ltd. Carbon Reduction Commitment for national supermarket. Current

Leeds v MM and 5 others. High profile noise abatement. Summons withdrawn, no order for costs, caution.

Notable Fraud Cases

R v K £20m. Fraudulent trading of NDLA Ltd, ILA (distant learning) fraud. Leading in successful defence in respect of all charges.Complex case with issues pertaining to disclosure, LPP, directors' liabilities, fiduciary duties and forensic accountancy/solvency.

R v F. £15m Conspiracy to defraud beer kegs and scrap metal. Currently leading.

R v H. Substantial money laundering and false VAT reclaims from new low cost airline and other ventures. Plea to false accounting: non custodial sentence.

R v M. £20m counterfeiting of cash. Short custodial sentence non ‘management’ role.

R v M. £15m Distance learning and ILA fraud of Metamorphosis Ltd. Currently leading

R v C. £4m Conspiracy: scrap metal fraud. Limited plea: suspended sentence. Other fraud/financial cases

R v R. £6m ponzi scheme. Leading for FSA.

R v G. Accountant charged with VAT reclaim frauds. Junior at trial and retrial. Conducted appeal and disciplinary hearings.

R v H. SFO fraudulent listing. Accounting issues. Leading for defence. Indictment stayed for abuse

R v L £3m Computing fraud. Abuse of process Indictment stayed

Re X Advice. Leading for FSA

R v W £30 m Defence. Ostrich Farming, Alchemy and. Junior: Pyramid Selling trials

R v B £6 m Defence. Junior : Deposit Taking scheme

R v H £7m SFO Defence. Hamilton House. Junior: Collective investment scheme

Directors Disqualification

Sec of State v W&D £2.6 m insolvency. Current case representing directors following insolvency

Sec of State v T. £3m insolvency. Current case representing director: breach of FA rules.

Sec of State v S. £3m insolvency. Carecraft procedure and S17 leave to act as director.