Richard James Hartley
Call: 2001
Qualifications: LLB (Hons)
Richard Hartley joined Central Chambers following completion of his pupillage with us. He has from the outset concentrating solely on crime.
He has taken a leading role in the formation of the Serious Fraud Group within Chambers, capitalising on his previous career as a software developer and computer expert. He undertakes high-level technology cases involving mobile telecommunications, modem line tapping, credit card and internet fraud; also in money laundering and drugs conspiracies. In addition, he has wide defence experience in crimes of violence, drugs (both possession and supply), dangerous driving, theft and kidnapping.
His intellectual capacity for absorbing and analysing very considerable amounts of data has been recognised as much by the judiciary as Instructing Solicitors. Not surprisingly, he has a loyal band of professional clients wishing to use his services.
He also undertakes prison law work, representing prisoners at Parole Board hearings.
Associations:
Criminal Law Bar Association
NOTABLE CASES
R V BAHADLEY (2004)
Obtaining property by deception, involving theft and use of credit card information.
R V BOWEN (2004),
Obtaining money transfers by deception, involving dishonesty against the Ministry of Defence: involving major issues as
R V CHADWICK & OTHERS (2005),
Conspiracy to kidnap, involving alleged gangland members.
R V JAMESON & OTHERS (2005),
Conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder criminal property, involving a complex fraud conducted over Ebay.
R V LOGAN & OTHERS (2005),
Corporate manslaughter and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, involving the death of an off duty police office
R V NAZ & OTHERS (2002)
Conspiracy to supply a drug of Class A and conspiracy to obtain property by deception.
R V PARSONS (2006)
Large scale credit card fraud, prosecution placed a heavy reliance upon technology and software including the close exam
R V PERCIVAL & OTHERS (2006),
Conspiracy to supply drugs of classes A, B and C with a total value of 1.5 million pound also associated aspects of mon