Bark&co

Bark&co continues to act in large, high-profile criminal cases, following arrests for murder, money laundering, drugs importation, sexual offences, people smuggling and cyber crime. It focuses on high-end work, much of it with an international dimension.

High-profile recent examples include the News of the World‘ phone hacking’ prosecution and subsequent computer hacking investigations; the Melanie Hall historical murder case; the case of cricket match fixing / conspiracy to pervert the course of justice involving former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns; the Clerkenwell ‘crime syndicate’ case; the Operation Yewtree sexual offences investigation; the landmark Agnes Taylor case, involving torture offences dating back to the Liberian civil war; and the UK’s largest ever burglary case. Further recent highlights have included securing the acquittal of a client of one of two conspiracies to murder, on allegations that the client had been engaged by a co-defendant to commit contract killings on behalf of a gang leader; securing an acquittal in a multi-defendant ‘county lines’ drugs and modern slavery case, and securing the acquittal of a client on charges of murder and manslaughter in connection with the stabbing of a drill rapper in Camberwell in 2018, as well as assisting clients in international drugs supply, firearms and terrorism matters. While the firm is well known for its discretion, Bark&co’s services are also sought after in cutting-edge matters in the public eye.