Angus Bunyan
Angus is an established leading junior who specialises in corporate and financial crime.
His practice has recently included being instructed by the SFO to secure Deferred Prosecution Agreements with two UK companies for bribery offences and to prosecute individuals suspected of bribery in the construction sector, representing the Federal Republic of Nigeria in its application for compensation from Glencore, prosecuting UK directors for paying bribes to secure Afghan military contracts and acting in the HBOS case involving corruption between senior managers at the bank and leading figures in the business community.
Angus also has significant expertise both in bringing and defending private prosecutions, especially those arising from commercial disputes. He represented Oleg Deripaska in his private prosecution of a former associate and in the related judicial review proceedings and his advice and counsel is regularly sought by other HNW individuals and companies seeking to explore this niche area.
He also represents individual and corporate clients in regulatory matters, particularly those facing proceedings for environmental matters involving waste and water offences. An SFO Panel A and CPS level 4 prosecutor, he is routinely instructed as leading counsel in high profile, complex and multi-handed trials where specialist knowledge and first-rate advocacy are required.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 1999
Membership
- SFO Panel A
- CPS External Advocates Panel Grade 4
- Criminal Bar Association
- Fraud Lawyers Association
- Private Prosecutors’ Association
- Hardwicke & Wolfson Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn
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PRACTICE NOTES
Private Prosecutions: CPIA Disclosure, DMDs, LPP/PII, Third‑Party Material, Conflicts and Abuse of Process (England and Wales)
Private prosecutor’s role as a ‘Minister of Justice’
A private prosecutor, along with anyone running proceedings on their behalf, must act as ‘Ministers of Justice’. Alongside that duty, a private prosecutor can also assume the following positions in a case:
complainant
witness
investigator
disclosure officer
Unavoidably, these overlapping roles can collide, weakening the prosecutor’s ability to act as a true ‘Minister of Justice’. Where one individual or entity holds any mixture of these roles, the tension must be recognised and actively managed so the defendant is not treated unfairly. Both sides should remain alive to this risk.
Partly for this reason, it is not uncommon for challenges to be brought to the issuing of the summons or the continuation of proceedings. See Practice Note: Challenging private prosecutions. Such challenges frequently probe the private prosecutor’s motive and conduct (often examining whether the duty of candour was properly observed) and may lead to applications to set aside the summons or to stay the proceedings...
Corporate Crime
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