Drawing on his experience and forensic skill-set as a leading practitioner in professional disciplinary defence work, Marc Beaumont accepts both direct access and referral instructions to advise and represent those accused of criminal offences in the following example fields:
- International Mutual Assistance
- Extradition
- Money laundering
- SFO investigations
- Commercial fraud
- Offences under the Insolvency legislation
- Directors’ Disqualification
- Trade Descriptions
- Food regulation
- Advertising
- Mortgage fraud
- Investment fraud
- LIBOR rigging
- Bribery
- Health & Safety
- Local Authority prosecutions
- Environmental Protection
- Animal welfare
Marc sees the role of the defence advocate as involving:
(a) the ability not to judge one’s client – that is for others to do;
(b) a willingness to probe, test and challenge prosecuting authorities and entities;
(c) the courage to subjugate any concern for reprisals against the defence advocate;
(d) the ability to detect, articulate and argue legal or technical flaws in a prosecution;
(e) an understanding of the pressure in modern society on prosecutors to secure convictions;
(f) a physical and intellectual presence before a tribunal or court ensuring that nothing happens without the interests of the defendant being sacrosanct.