Spenser Hilliard
Year of Call: 1975
Practice Profile:
Spenser has a common law background. His practice now mainly centres on licensing, matrimonial finance, criminal fraud and confiscation and asset recovery. He has a detailed knowledge and experience of the licensed trade and lectures on the provisions of the Licensing Act 2003. He has recently been involved in several high profile revenue frauds.
Notable Cases:
Operation Galleon (R v Hawkins & Others)
Euterpe (R v Morgan & Others)
R v Radak & others [1999] 1 Cr App R 187 (money laundering, the effect of Article 6 ECHR on the admittance of written statement of prosecution witness who refused to attend trial)
Further Professional Information:
He has been a non-executive direction of an NHS health trust and is an accredited mediator.
Practice Group(s):
Crime, Family
Practice Areas:
Commercial -partnership, contract and sale of goods, credit and leasing, IT/IP, Property and wills (chancery, trusts of land, family provision and probate), Criminal law (including fraud), Confiscation and asset recovery, Children (public), Children (private), Best interests/adult welfare, Education, Licensing