Alex Mullen represented LB, a former Managing Associate at a US law firm, in relation to whom the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found 7 allegations not proved and 2 proved after a five-day hearing involving two complainants.The Tribunal also found that...
Overview
Alex is a trusted junior barrister experienced in high-profile criminal and quasi-criminal matters, with truly unrivalled regulatory and disciplinary experience for his level of call.
Corporate & Financial Crime
Alex was part of the defence team representing a G4S executive acquitted in a major SFO fraud case. In 2023, he was seconded to BCL Solicitors LLP, primarily advising on sanctions matters touching on various jurisdictions. He accepts instructions in this area, including civil forfeiture, on which he has co-authored legal commentary. He has also supported chambers in corporate manslaughter and health and safety cases.
Regulatory and Disciplinary
Alex draws on his experience working at the HCPC when acting for and against a range of regulators. He is one of, if not the singular most broadly experienced barrister at his level of call in regulatory and disciplinary matters, with experience of proceedings before the FCA, SRA, BSB, BHA, IFoA, TRA, NMC, HCPC, GDC, GMC, and GPhC among others.
Crime
Alex prosecutes and defends in both Magistrates’ and Crown Courts, with experience in offences ranging from violence to driving and drugs. Alongside others in chambers Alex is one of the most junior advocates at the bar to prosecute matters at CPS Grade 3, and brings his prosecution experience to his defence work with great effect.
Appointments
- CPS External Advocates Panel – Grade 3
Education
- Called 2021 (Gray’s Inn)
- BPP Law School - Bar Professional Training Course/LLM Legal Practice (Distinction)
- Royal Holloway, University of London - LLB (Hons) (First Class)
Scholarships and Awards
- Lord Justice Holker Scholarship - Gray’s Inn
- Excellence Scholarship - BPP Law School
Professional Memberships
- The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
- Criminal Bar Association
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We are delighted to announce that Harriet Dixon and Alex Mullen have accepted offers to join Chambers, following the successful completion of their pupillages.For more information, please contact our clerking team – either by email or by telephone: ...
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Alex Mullen, during a secondment to the sanctions team at BCL Solicitors LLP, works with John Binns to analyse the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation's new General Licence, and whether it delivers what it promises.Designated Persons (‘DP&...
Corporate and Financial Crime
Overview
Alex has broad experience across corporate and financial crime matters, including advising on sanctions with international elements and acting in civil forfeiture proceedings. He also supports chambers in cases involving corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences.
Experience
In 2022 Alex began work as part of the wider defence team for a senior G4S executive accused of defrauding the Ministry of Justice, instructed by Hickman and Rose. All three executives were acquitted in 2023 after the Serious Fraud Office offered no evidence against them.
In 2023 Alex was seconded to BCL Solicitors LLP, focusing on sanctions and proceeds of crime matters. Working alongside BCL’s world-renowned team, Alex advised individual and corporate Designated Persons on all aspects of sanctions including licencing and challenges to designation. Through this secondment Alex has gained familiarity with complex multi-jurisdictional trust and corporate structures; most notably in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Russia. Alex co-published an article for BCL’s own Insights blog on the licencing regime and a news analysis piece for Lexis Nexis on the expansion of sanctions to Belarus and beyond.
Alex accepts instructions in this area in his own right, including advisory and drafting work. Alex has recently been instructed in civil forfeiture cases to which he brings his pragmatic and tenacious approach, often with great effect.
Alex is also regularly instructed by CPS Proceeds of Crime (CPSPOC) on confiscation matters. Alex recently appeared before the Honorary Recorder of Westminster, successfully defeating a legal argument on whether criminal property was ‘obtained’, resulting in each of the three Defendants agreeing Orders totalling around £6 million in available amount. Alex is regularly instructed on matters involving third-party claimants in confiscation cases, where proceeds of crime and trust law converge.
Alex is presently instructed (by the CPS Serious Economic, Organised Crime and International Directorate) as part of a high-profile prosecution relating to work conducted at the stadium of Northampton Town Football Club, in which it is alleged that the Defendants defrauded the taxpayer out of tens of millions of pounds.
Alex has supported members of chambers with matters arising from allegations of corporate manslaughter and health and safety, to which he also brings his regulatory law experience.
Overview
Alex both prosecutes and defends in criminal matters across the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts. His broad practice spans a range of offences, and he brings particular insight to defence work through his experience as a CPS prosecutor.
Experience
Alex is regularly instructed to prosecute and defend in both the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts. Alex has significant breadth of experience ranging from violent offences and road traffic matters through to sexual offences and drugs cases. Alex has particular familiarity with driving offences and is often instructed to make special reasons and exceptional hardship arguments in both the Magistrates’ Court and the Crown Court on appeal.
As a pupil, Alex often assisted senior members of chambers in relation to high-profile and politically sensitive criminal cases of the utmost seriousness, as well as cases with particular legal and factual complexity.
Alex prosecutes and defends serious and complex cases, often appearing alongside counsel of much more senior call.
Alex has experience defending serious sexual offences matters, including those involving pre-recorded cross-examination.
Regulatory
Overview
Alex has wide-ranging experience in regulatory and disciplinary matters, acting for both regulators and individuals. He draws on prior work within a regulatory body and regularly appears in proceedings across a broad spectrum of professional sectors.
Experience
Alex came to chambers having worked for the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as both a Case Manager and Presenting Officer. This in-house regulatory experience means that Alex is uniquely placed to offer his frontline experience in acting both for and against regulatory bodies of all types.
As a result of his work in this field, Alex has a wealth of experience understanding and interpreting complex medical evidence.
Alex has assisted members of chambers in Financial Conduct Authority proceedings, Solicitors Regulation Authority / Bar Standards Board matters and cases before niche regulators including the British Horseracing Authority and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Alex frequently conducts disciplinary hearings on behalf of regulators at every stage in his own right, as well as advising such bodies on cases from complaint to conclusion. Alex appears before all medical regulators on a regular basis, in hearings of all types.
Alex recently appeared alone in a Solicitors Regulation Authority matter, successfully defending his client, a Managing Associate, against seven of nine pleaded allegations of sexual misconduct. As a result the Tribunal were persuaded by Alex’s argument that striking-off could be avoided, and that a short suspension was the most appropriate sanction.
Alex has rare experience in making disclosure applications on behalf of a regulator in the County Court pursuant to statutory powers.
Alex’s experience of regulatory work extends to acting as a disclosure junior (instructed by Hickman and Rose) in a complex multi-national market manipulation matter brought by the FCA, in which it was alleged that Alex’s client was part of a scheme advising a gulf state on how to wage financial war against another.
Recent Cases
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Alex Mullen represented LB, a former Managing Associate at a US law firm, in relation to whom the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found 7 allegations not proved and 2 proved after a five-day hearing involving two complainants.The Tribunal also found that...
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