Mark Cotter

Year of Call: 1994

Education / Qualifications

LLB (Hons), LLM (Wales)

Specialist practice areas

Serious & organised crime
Asset Forfeiture & Confiscation
Crime

Profile

Mark has developed a formidable practice over the past fifteen years and is regularly instructed as lead Counsel for both the prosecution and the defence.

 

He is instructed by the London CPS, the Fraud Prosecution Service and is in demand with a number of London’s leading criminal defence firms.  He was recently described by the trial judge of a substantial fraud case as; ‘an advocate of high quality’ and his conduct of a multiple-defendant appeal (where the Registrar of Criminal Appeals assigned Mark to represent four defendants in a group appeal) was described by the Court as; ‘a model as to how the Bar should act in such cases’.

 

Mark has acted in many cases prosecuted by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency division of the CPS and has extensive experience of dealing with issues arising under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

 

Mark also receives instructions in relation to proposed referrals to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

 

Professional Memberships

Criminal Bar Association

Pupil supervisor

Yes

Cases of note

David Cartwright T20080220 (Crown Court)
Fraud