Jonathan Fisher, QC

Email: j.s.fisher@lse.ac.uk
Administrative support: Dianne Delvaille

Jonathan Fisher QC is a leading barrister specialising in financial crime, corporate regulation and contentious tax cases.

The Legal Directories describe him as “a highly intelligent silk … a favourite of London’s top law firms”, “meticulous in preparation, extremely responsive and hard-working - judges defer to his knowledge", "extremely thoughtful and considered in the run-up to court but once in the heat of battle pulls no punches”, and “highly respected for his advisory work on money laundering, proceeds of crime, VAT fraud and taxation matters”.

He has been a Visiting Professor at LSE since 2006. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor at City Law School, London. Between 2003 and 2006, he was a Visiting Professor at Cass Business School.

Co-author of The Law of Investor Protection (Sweet & Maxwell) as well as many papers and articles, he is General Editor of Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime, an Editorial Board Member of Simon’s Taxes, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, an accredited Trusts and Estates Practitioner and an Honorary Steering Committee member of the London Fraud Forum. He was appointed a Commissioner on the Bill of Rights Commission established by the UK Government in March 2011.

His recent published work includes “Economic Crime and the Global Financial Crisis”, [2011] 5(4) Law and Financial Markets Review 276, "The Anti-Money Laundering Disclosure Regime and the Collection of Tax in the UK" [2010] 55(3) British Tax Review 1; "Fraud Reporting: A Shared Responsibility", Fraud Advisory Panel, 2010; "Fraud and Financial Crime", Research Note, Policy Exchange, 2010. His views are also regularly sought by the media.

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