David Allan is a practising barrister at 23 Essex Street Chambers. He specialises in cases involving organised or financial crime.

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Appointments

CPS London Grade 3 Prosecutor
Attorney General’s Panel of Prosecuting Advocates – List B
January – July 2009: 6 month secondment to CPS Organised Crime Division, Ludgate Hill

Publications

David has recently begun working as a regular contributor to Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, published by LexisNexis.

Previously David has published articles on:

• “Impure Thoughts – examines the Sentencing Council’s proposed drug sentencing guidelines” Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 2011
• “Seized Up – examines a recent judgment of the High Court which could severly curtail authorities’ use of cash seizure powers” Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 2011
• “Disclosure under the CPIA 1996 and compatibility with Human Rights, and the appointment of special counsel – A commentary on R v H and C” 23 Essex Street website
• “Top Tips on the Law regarding the disclosure of material regarding covert marking” – International Association of Auto Theft Investigators Alliance newsletter, 2007

Seminars & Training as speaker:

David has spoken at the following recent seminars:

• “Adding counts to the indictment not disclosed in the committal papers, s.66 Courts Act 2003” 25/3/10 chambers seminar for the CPS Organised Crime Division
• “The Keys to The Warehouse Syndrome”, lecture on disclosure given to the Environment Agency 24/7/07
• Lecture on the law of disclosure and covert marking at IAATI conference 2006
  Presentation 27/9/05, “The CPIA disclosure regime and information stored on electronic documents”
• “Cash Seizure”, lecture on the cash seizure provisions of POCA 2002 and the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 to chambers’ Assets Recovery Team “RIPA 2000: Covert surveillance and use of CHISs”, lecture to North Yorkshire Trading Standards

Other training:

David has undertaken the following further training in particular:

MTIC fraud appeals in the First Tier Tribunal – Roshani Pulle, David Bedenham 8/12/09

• Long Firm fraud – BIS, Manchester Police 24/11/09
• HMRC Seminar regarding MTIC fraud 4/4/07
• HMRC Seminar regarding disclosure, treatment of sensitive material, Section 8 CPIA applications
• Trade Descriptions Act, Copyright Designs and Patents Act and Computer Misuse Act
  Restraint order applications
• Human Rights Act
• Proceeds of Crime Act
• Criminal Justice Act 2003

Education

Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, MA (Law)
Inns of Court School of Law (Major Scholarship)

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