Rupert Jones

Rupert Jones

Call 2000
Email rupert.jones@3pb.co.uk
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Rupert Jones is ranked as a leading junior by Chambers and Partners Directory 2012: 'Rupert Jones offers “excellent client care and hand-holding”, says interviewees. He has a busy practice in this area and recently acted for the respondent receiver in relation to a multimillion-pound confiscation order arising from Bassaid v Munir.'

Rupert has a niche practice specialising in three areas of law:

  • Asset Recovery and the civil recovery of the Proceeds of Crime. He has great experience in the three main statutory regimes, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA), the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (CJA) and the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (DTA). While he acts primarily in the Administrative Court he also appears in the Family and Chancery Divisions of the High Court, both Divisions of the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.  He has a particular expertise in acting for third parties, companies, liquidators, administrators and those applying for compensation and release of funds from restraint and confiscation orders and those caught up with civil recovery of the proceeds of crime.
  • Tax Recovery.  He specialises in appeals to the First Tier Tax tribunal in relation to withheld VAT and the restoration of goods seized for non payment of Excise Duty.
  • Public and regulatory law including national security.  He regularly advises and appears in appeals to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) and to the High Court regarding Control Orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005.

For greater detail in relation to each, please see his profile for the individual specialism .

His reported cases in each area include:

Asset Recovery

  • Re Ford-Sagers (2011) QBD (Admin) - Lawtel 20th July 2011
  • Grant, Re [2011] EWCA Civ 643 – 26th May 2011
  • Regina v Blexar Limited [2010] EWCA Crim 3111 – 13th December 2010
  • AA and SA v R; [2010] EWCA Crim 2805; 29th November 2010
  • Bassaid v Munir [2010] EWCA Civ 1235; 13th October 2010
  • Larkfield Limited v Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office; Court of Appeal Civil Division; [2010] EWCA Civ 521 [12/5/10] (2010) 3 All ER 1173 : (2010) STC 1506
  • Stephen Lamb v Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office; Court of Appeal Civil Division; [2010] EWCA Civ 285; [2010] Lloyd's Rep FC 405 [18/03/10] (2010) STC 1190
  • R (On The Application Of The Director Of Revenue & Customs Prosecutions) v Birmingham Magistrates' Court & Raymond Woolley (Interested Party) [2010] EWHC (Admin) 12; [2010] Lloyd's Rep FC 286 [15/01/10]
  • Re M Sub Nom Revenue & Customs Commissioners v Raymond George May (2009) [2009] EWHC 2163 (Admin);
  • In The Matter Of R (2009) [2009] EWHC 1700 (Admin);
  • Robert Minshall v Marylebone Magistrates' Court & Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office (2008) (2009) 2 All ER 806; [2010] 1 WLR 590;
  • Stodgell v Stodgell [2008] EWHC 1925 (Admin), [2008] Fam Law 1084, (2009) 2 FLR 218;
  • Marion Gibson v Revenue & Customs Prosecution Office (2008) (2009) 2 WLR 471 : (2008) 2 FLR 1672 : (2008) NPC 63 : (2009) QB 348 : Times, July 14, 2008;
  • Paul Hansford v Southampton Magistrates' Court & Revenue & Customs (Interested Party) (2008) (2008) 4 All ER 432 : Times, March 19, 2008;
  • Telli v Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office (2007) (2008) 3 All ER 405 : (2008) 2 Cr App R (S) 48 : (2008) Crim LR 400;
  • Togher v RCPO and Doran [2007] EWCA Civ 686; [2007] UKHRR 1079, [2008] 2 WLR 82, [2008] QB 476;
  • R v Sampson and others [2007] EWCA Crim 1238;
  • Solomons, Solomons and RCPO [2007] EWHC 1362 (Fam);
  • In the matter of Robert Minshall and the Criminal Justice Act 1988 [2007] EWHC 214 (Admin);
  • R v Selby (QBD (Admin) 16 June 2006);
  • Capewell v HMRC (2007) 1 WLR 386 (HL); [2007] 2 All ER 370, [2007] UKHL 02, [2007] UKHL 2;
  • Re W [2006] EWHC 2230 (Admin); and
  • Re G [2006] EWHC 3131 (Admin)

Tax Recovery

Control Orders and SIAC

Other Information

Rupert has lectured for POCLA & the SOAS LLM course - International Commercial Fraud.

He has appeared on and acted as interviewer of prosecutors, politicians, ex death row inmates, families and campaigners for a BBC Radio 4 programme - titled 'Death Row Rookies' shortlisted for an Amnesty International prize. He was an intern at the Public Interest Litigation Clinic in Kansas City, Missouri, USA during summer 2000 working on death penalty cases having won a scholarship through the charity Amicus.

Due to the nature of his degree and time spent in The Three Bridges Regional Medium Secure Unit researching a thesis on schizophrenic violent and sex offenders, Rupert has a special interest in any Mental Health aspects of cases.