2 Bedford Row

General Profile 

Andrew Munday undertakes both prosecution and defence work and advisory work (in both contentious and non-contentious matters) and was, until taking Silk, Standing Counsel to HM Customs and Excise. In recent years he has prosecuted and defended almost exclusively in fraud.

Recommended by Chambers and Partners.

Approved to prosecute for Serious Fraud Office.

Andrew Munday's general common law practice as a junior dealing with personal injury, commercial contract, professional negligence and industrial tribunal work provided him with a breadth of experience in a number of fields and tribunals which provided a very solid and wide foundation of experience and upon which he has been repeatedly able to draw.

Areas of practice:-

In recent years has been instructed by H M Customs & Excise:-

• To advise on a strategy in order to generate ruling to seek to put an end to a very fashionable " state run crime" line of abuse arguments raised in a substantial number of Customs money service business cases. Devised and oversaw a disclosure regime in 14 or so separate cases to seek to generate the test case. One was suitably generated and judgment obtained.
• To advise in the Danati Review as to disclosure in money service business cases.
• After the collapse of the London City Bond line of cases and the Butterfield Enquiry he was instructed to advise on post LCB strategy in inward and outward diversion case disclosure regimes where there were to be civil asset forfeiture actions and regulatory breach enforcement proceedings running simultaneously and in parallel with criminal investigation and proceedings.
• From 2000 onwards, to prosecute Missing Trader Intra Community Fraud trials of some length, the last, a series of linked trials spanning 2 years of court time.
• Complex confiscation proceedings

     Other recent instructions

Advised Law Society on non-contentious matter arising from proposed and actual changes to public funding regime.

    General Experience

Has extensive experience of probably the complete a range of PII issues.

Has extensive and repeated experience of conducting and/or overseeing very large disclosure exercises.

IT - a very much above average knowledge of IT systems and computing.

Actively maintains his knowledge of matters technological and scientific, commercial and financial.

Particular experience in dealing with expert evidence in (sometimes esoteric) areas of scientific, medical or professional practice.

Has particular experience/skills in Electronic Presentation of Evidence using Trial Pro spftware and touchscreen technology. (Has used EPE to prosecute cases which have together run for some 23 months of court time).

Has good knowledge of bookeeping and accountancy practice.

Lectured on money laundering and disclosure issues to prosecuting agencies.