Direct Access Barrister

Barry Terrence Stancombe

Direct Access Barrister

Barry Terrence Stancombe

Legal 500 2024 Ranked Tier 1, Leading Juniors

‘Excellent technical knowledge combined with being very user-friendly. A pleasure to work with.'

Chambers & Partners 2024 Band 1

'Barry Stancombe possesses incredible writing skills and is a real force of nature. He gets on top of the facts'

Barry is a POCA and asset recovery specialist practitioner. He receives regular instructions by defendants and third parties in this field of work ranging from restraint and confiscation, asset freezing/forfeiture orders to complex civil recovery cases.

Counsel charges a standard commercial hourly rate but depending on the work that is required fees can be negotiated for hourly or daily rates with his Practice Directors and cost budgets can be provided to address your needs.

Area of Law

Asset Recovery

Barry is a specialist in asset forfeiture and proceeds of crime particularly in the areas of restraint, receivership, confiscation, civil recovery, commercial fraud and money laundering.

He advises on all aspects of proceeds of crime, asset forfeiture and in particular in cases where there is a cross over with insolvency proceedings.

Barry’s practice also encompasses the complementary areas of commercial litigation, civil fraud and insolvency.

He advises corporations, trusts, banks, IPs and private individuals on these specialist areas of law.

He is also regularly instructed on behalf of court appointed management and enforcement receivers in high value receiverships and has been involved in most of the leading reported receivership cases.

Barry has been instructed by the main prosecution agencies for many years including the SFO and FCA.

What sort of work do I do?

All forms of POCA work, asset recovery and civil fraud.

Barry has been recommended in the POCA and Asset Forfeiture Sections of the Legal 500 and Chambers UK since first publications. He was also nominated as the Financial crime junior of the year by Legal 500 in 2023.

Appointed to the Serious Fraud Office POCA Panel of Counsel - Panel A. A member of the Proceeds of Crime Lawyers' Association, the Fraud Lawyers' Association, the London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association and R3.

Who do I work for?

Barry advises corporations, trusts, banks, IPs and private individuals on his specialist areas of law being asset recovery and civil fraud.

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