Paul O'Doherty

Call 2000
Email paul.odoherty@3pb.co.uk
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Asset and Tax Recovery Group

Paul O'Doherty advises and represents prosecutors and receivers in the High Court and the Crown Court in civil restraint matters under the Criminal Justice Act 1988, Drug Trafficking Act 1994 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. His practice covers:

• advising on the scope and extent of restraint and receivership proceedings.
• advising in relation to rights of third parties, including piercing the corporate veil.
• variation and discharge of restraint and receivership orders.
• contempt proceedings.
• related company law and insolvency issues.

He was instructed by Director of the Assets Recovery Agency, together with Mark Sutherland Williams, to draft the first High Court interim receiving order made under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

He was instructed, as junior counsel for the Crown, in a successful prosecution in July 2006 leading to the recovery of a large quantity of stolen original studio recordings made by the Beatles. These highly valuable recordings were made during the making of the Beatles’ final album “Let It Be” and had been missing since the early 1970s. The case received widespread publicity.