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Outer Temple silkleads on £1m insidertrading case Bark & Co

Outer Temple Chambers silk Michael Bowes QChas taken a leading role on a high-profileinsider trading case that has pitted him againstQCs from Doughty Street, Three RaymondBuildings, 2 Bedford Row and 2 Hare Court.

The Financial ServicesAuthority (FSA) hasappointed Bowes tolead its prosecution ofa group of seven menaccused with runninga £1m print roomspread-bet scam.Southwark CrownCourt has been toldthat the friends andtheir relativesobtained confidentialtakeover documentsfrom high-securityprinting rooms at twoof the City’s biggestinvestment banks.

Saini’s legal team is Furnival Chambers QC JohnCharles Rees and 2 Bedford Row’s TimHogman, instructed by Bark & Co senior solicitorMaria Stalbow.Paresh Shah is defended by Doughty Street Chambers’Edward Rees QC and Robin Barclay of 2 HareCourt, instructed by Byrne & Partners.Neten Shah’s QC is Anthony Shaw of 18 Red Lion Courtand 2 Bedford Row’s Maria Dineen, instructed byCrowell & Moring partner Gerallt Owen.Three Raymond Buildings’ Patrick Gibbs QC and AlisonPople of 2 Bedford Row are representing Bijal Shah onthe instruction of Birds Solicitors partner Steven Bird.

Patel’s legal team is made up of 2 Bedford Row’s Peter Lodder QCand Jonathan Goldring, a director at Bankside Law.Spread betting company City Index broker Mitesh Shah, who theFSA claims assisted the other defendants, is defended by CharterChambers’ Ian Bourne QC and Michael Shaw of 9-12 BellYard, instructed by Whitworth & Green Solicitors lawyer RajeshShah.The trial is ongoing. The men were arrested in July 2008 afterone of the FSA’s biggest ever investigations.The case is among the biggest brought to court since the FSAcracked down on insider trading after Margaret Cole took over itsenforcement division in 2005.Cole will leave the City watchdog at the end of this month and willgo on gardening leave until the end of August (15 February 2012).

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