Mark Lucraft QC

Mark Lucraft pursues a specialist fraud-based criminal practice both defending and prosecuting.
 
The beginning of his career was marked by instructions in a number of the largest cases of the 1980’s and 1990’s: the tail end of the cases arising out of the Johnson-Matthey collapse, and then the investigation and prosecutions arising from ‘Barlow Clowes’ and Maxwell.
 
Since then he has been instructed in a number of other cases by the Serious Fraud Office [SFO]: R.v. Dannis Cheung (investment fraud), R.v. Stone & Mottram (fraud on gas and oil exploration company) and he was part of the team instructed in one of the largest and most complex cases the SFO has taken on, the investigation into the generic drugs market (R.v. O’Neill and others). Despite the ending of the case, it remains good authority and best practice on a number of crucial issues, such as disclosure of vast amounts of electronic material and the use of section 3(5) CJA 1987 powers to disclose material to third parties. He is currently advising the SFO on an investigation into a suspected "boiler room" fraud.