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Jonathan FisherBritish lawyer
Date of Birth: 24.02.1958
Country:  Great Britain |
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Biography of Jonathan Fisher
Jonathan Simon Fisher is a British lawyer and barrister from London, specializing in financial and tax crimes. He is also an invited professor at the London School of Economics. Fisher's main areas of practice include tax investigations, disputes and disclosures; proceeds of crime (money laundering, asset forfeiture and recovery); corporate crime and corporate defense; fraud in commerce and investment; and regulation of financial services.
Education
Jonathan Simon Fisher was born on February 24, 1958, in North London. He attended St Dunstan's College, a prestigious school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18, located in Catford, one of the districts in South London. In 1978, he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree with honors from the North London Polytechnic, which is now the London Metropolitan University. In 1979, Fisher received another Bachelor of Laws degree after completing his postgraduate studies at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education. The following year, he passed the bar examination and was admitted to practice law as a member of Gray's Inn, one of the four legal societies, and became a Queen's Counsel in 2003.
Career
Fisher has represented Tom Wise, a former Member of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom Independence Party, who became the first British politician to plead guilty to expenses fraud and was sentenced to imprisonment. More recently, Fisher represented the accounting firm Christopher Lunn & Co in a civil litigation against the UK tax authority after the tax authority decided not to pursue a case against the firm for separate allegations of tax fraud amounting to £117 million.
From 1991 to 2003, Fisher served as counsel in the Inland Revenue Department at the Old Bailey, the central criminal court in London, and the Crown Court. During this time, he was involved in a number of tax prosecutions, the most significant of which was a case involving the import and sale of Nissan cars in the UK, resulting in the largest corporate tax (£100 million) ever prosecuted by the Inland Revenue. Fisher was also involved in the case known as "Operation Euripus," which dealt with an alleged £250 million VAT fraud, the largest of its kind at that time.
As an invited professor at the London School of Economics, Fisher teaches corporate and financial crime and international economic sanctions to master's degree candidates in law. From 2004 to 2007, Fisher was an invited professor of financial regulation and investment law at the Cass Business School at City University London. In 1981-1982, he taught law at the Chelmer Institute of Higher Education, which is now part of Anglia Ruskin University. Fisher also serves as the editor-in-chief of "Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime," the first compilation of legal experts' reports on recent cases of fraud and financial crimes, both criminal and civil.
Throughout his career, Fisher has authored numerous articles and other works and co-authored two books, "Pharmacy Law & Practice" and "The Law of Investor Protection," published in 2003. His latest book, "Money Laundering Law and Practice," is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in December 2012.
