A specialist practice encompassing fraud, regulatory and associated civil matters.

Christian’s fraud practice focuses on revenue and public sector fraud, with associated areas of confiscation and asset recovery law, both criminal and civil; he also handles complex and heavy related offending such as misconduct in public office.

His regulatory practice focuses on criminal and civil aspects of environmental regulation, but also involves planning, health and safety, and other areas of regulatory enforcement, together with trading standards and related matters. He accepts instructions across the spectrum of connected civil and regulatory enforcement cases, with a particular interest in environmental law. Elected a trustee and National Council member of the UK Environmental Law Association in 2017, he co-convenes its Wales Devolved Administration Group and is a member of its Waste Working Party. He is appointed to the List of Special Regulatory Advocates in Health and Safety and Environmental Law (A List).

With an excellent multi-disciplinary background, he has a particular interest in confiscation and asset recovery, and its interaction with his areas of practice and areas of property and chancery law, including competing rights under other legislation, such as co-ownership, insolvency and matrimonial finance.

His overall practice is best represented by R v Morgan [2013] EWCA Crim. 1307, [2014] 1 All E.R. 1208, [2014] Env.L.R. 5, [2013] Lloyd's Rep FC 655. THis appeal arising from an environmental prosecution concerned the interface between criminal confiscation, environmental regulation, landfill tax and the effect of Article 1, Protocol 1 to the ECHR. He regularly appears before the criminal courts, the County Court, High Court, and related Tribunals. He also writes, blogs and lectures on the interface between criminal confiscation and other areas of law, and is regularly recommended in the Legal 500 and Chambers UK.