Dr. Jonathan Fisher KC

Fisher
Dr.
Jonathan
Fisher KC
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Jonathan Fisher practises as a barrister in financial crime and corporate crime cases from Red Lion Chambers in London and is ranked in Tier 1 as a leading KC by the independent legal directories. He was recently described in The Times as “one of the UK’s most experienced white-collar crime specialists”, and by LSE Law School as a barrister with a “distinguished career in both academia and practice”. Jonathan is a Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, a registered practitioner in the Dubai International Financial Court, editor emeritus of the Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime series, and Chair of the UK Government’s Independent Review into Disclosure of Unused Material in Criminal Cases and Fraud Offences. Before becoming a KC, he was Standing Counsel (Criminal) to the Commissioners of Revenue at the Central Criminal Court and London Crown Courts. Alongside his practice, Jonathan is a Senior Fellow at LSE teaching Financial Crime on the LLM programme and undertaking research. He graduated from St Catharine’s College Cambridge with a LLM degree, having obtained a BA (Hons) in Law from London Metropolitan University (then Polytechnic of North London) and a Department of Education State Scholarship for postgraduate study. Jonathan holds a PhD awarded by LSE following his research into the obligation to report suspicious activity in money laundering cases and its engagement with corporate rights. Jonathan has been awarded an Honorary LLD by UWE Bristol in recognition of his contribution to financial crime and financial regulation, and he has presented English Taught Courses at HUJI on several occasions in recent years.