Nick Hoffman

Practice
Nick Hoffman is instructed by the prosecution and defence in Crown Courts throughout London and the South East. Has been instructed in a wide variety of cases involving serious violence, sexual offences, drugs and fraud.

Nick is regularly instructed as junior defence counsel in complex and long-running cases. In addition, he has appeared in a number of cases before the Administrative Court as a result he has developed a particular interest in corporate crime and cases concerning judicial review.

More recently Nick has extended his practice by prosecuting on behalf of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and defending regulatory offences brought by the Health & Safety Executive.

Publications and Notable Cases

Corporate Homicide in Counsel Magazine, February 2003

Restraint & Confiscation in Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure, Lexis Nexis Butterworths, 2005

Doughty (R on the application of) v Ely Magistrates' Court [2008] (Judicial Review)

R v Tull & Others [2007]
Junior counsel for the defence in major Suffolk Trading Standards fraud

R v Bailey & Others [2007]
Junior counsel for the defence in a trial concerning conspiracy to commit attempted murder and solicit murder

R v Khorshed & Others [2007]
Appeared alone for defendant in VAT cigarette fraud

R v Tanimowo & Others [2006]
Junior counsel in four-handed 'sham marriage' fraud which was the largest of its kind at the time

Coram (R on the application of) v Luton & South Bedfordshire Magistrates' Court [2005] (Judicial Review)

Nick has a keen interest in all aspects of sports related disciplinary and regulatory proceedings which he feels dovetails with his experience in the more traditional areas of crime and administrative law.

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