Simon Buchen SCAdmitted as a legal practitioner in 1999
Admitted as a barrister in 2004 Appointed Senior Counsel in 2018 Simon Buchen was admitted to legal practice in February 1999 and called to the bar in August 2004. He was appointed as senior counsel in 2018. Over the course of these years he has practised predominantly in the criminal law and related areas. He has appeared for both the defence and the prosecution. He is regularly briefed in complex criminal cases by both defence firms and prosecutorial bodies. He has advised and represented a variety of clients, including individuals, corporations and government agencies, and has appeared in a number of interstate jurisdictions. He regularly appears in first instance matters, such as trials and sentence hearings. His practice also has a strong appellate focus. He has appeared in appeals in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal and Court of Appeal and in the High Court of Australia. He has advised and appeared in various inquiries, such as coronial inquests (including as counsel assisting the coroner) and statutory commissions of inquiry (including appearing before the ICAC, the Police Integrity Commission, ASIC and the Australian and NSW Crime Commissions). He has also appeared for applicants before the State Parole Authority. He has advised and appeared in respect of complex federal criminal matters, such as those involving insider trading, market manipulation, taxation fraud, police corruption and foreign bribery offences. In more recent years he has developed a specialised practice in the area of cartel offences and serious contraventions of competition laws. He appeared (as junior counsel to Tim Game SC and James Lockhart SC) in the first case to be heard in the Federal Court’s criminal cartel jurisdiction, DPP (Cth) v Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha [2017] FCA 876; (2017) 254 FCR 235. He has also advised and appeared in respect of areas connected with the criminal law, such as serious environmental, industrial, aviation and other regulatory offences, and proceeds of crime litigation conducted in the Supreme Court. He has served as a member of a professional conduct committee of the NSW Bar Association (from 2013 to the present) and as the Bar Association’s appointed member of the Legal Aid Review Committee. Principal areas of practice
Some recent cases of note
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