Oliver Powell

Call 2006
Email oliver.powell@3pb.co.uk
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Asset and Tax Recovery Group

Oliver's practice has always had a strong emphasis on Asset Forfeiture and the Proceeds of Crime, appearing for the crown, defence and third parties.
His experience involves hearings concerning:

• restraint (including external requests);
• receivership;
• confiscation;
• enforcement (including contempt proceedings);
• civil recovery; and
• cash seizure.

He has advised and acted for a variety of prosecuting authorities (CPS, RCPO, HMRC, UKBA & SFO), local councils, receivers and liquidators, both in the Crown Court and High Court. His experience has included undertaking work under all three confiscation regimes (DTA 1994, CJA 1988 & POCA 2002).

Oliver has been invited to speak at a number of asset recovery conferences/seminars. These include: a seminar hosted at the CPS Proceeds of Crime Unit (March 2009); a Magistrates’ and Prosecutors Conference in Antigua (October 2010); and for the Eastern Caribbean Financial Investigation Advisory Team in Barbados (November 2010). More recently the content of such seminars have also extended to the Bribery Act 2010 (January and February 2012).

Recent publications

• 'A very civil fraud' - Criminal Law and Justice Weekly (May & June 2011), a three part article co-written with Mark Sutherland Williams.
• ‘Advice and Guidance Manual for Seafarers’ concerning investigations and prosecutions bought by the police and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, together with investigations by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch. – Seafarers’ Rights International, co-written with Ian Lawrie Q.C.(March 2012)