Arthur accepts instructions both prosecuting and defending. He has experience beyond his call of serious and complex crime, having been instructed as junior alone in cases involving multi-million pound banking fraud, human trafficking and serious violence.

Arthur has completed secondments at the Financial Conduct Authority and Serious Fraud Office.

He defends applications for committal in contempt proceedings at the County Court, has experience advising on actions against the police and has conducted cases involving consumer and regulatory offences.

Before joining the Bar, Arthur worked as a criminal defence paralegal and police station representative for Lloyds PR and ITN Solicitors. As a paralegal, Arthur worked on a range of criminal matters and gained particular experience of the youth court, financial crime (including large scale MTIC frauds), confiscation and public order.

Arthur accepts instructions under the Public Access Scheme.

Key cases

R v JD [Ongoing] – Instructed as junior counsel for a defendant in a high value, multi-handed conspiracy to transfer criminal property.

R v JD [Ongoing] – Instructed as junior counsel for a defendant in a high value, multi-handed conspiracy to transfer criminal property.

R v DI [2021] – Successfully defended a man accused of involvement in alleged joint enterprise assisting unlawful migration. Prosecution offered no evidence, having conducted a disclosure review following defence submissions.

R v PW [2021] – Conspiracy to Defraud with an intended loss of £2.4m involving a bank manager acting as an “inside man”. Instructed as junior alone for the prosecution. The defendant was convicted after trial.

R v SK [2019] – Successfully defended a security guard accused of stabbing a suspected shoplifter and alleged to have perverted the course of justice by making a false statement in relation to the incident. The defendant was convicted on a related weapons offence only, for which he received a suspended sentence.

Further information

Bar Professional Training Course, BPP University – Outstanding

BA (Hons) Law, University of Cambridge

Appointments & Memberships

Inner Temple

Criminal Bar Association

Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers

Howard League for Penal Reform

Scholarship

Advocacy Scholarship, BPP University

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