Compass Chambers

Peter L Gray QC

GENERAL INFORMATION:

1978-1981: LLB (Hons)
1983-1992: Practised at English Bar in London in Chambers of David Barnard
1992: Called to Scottish Bar
1998-2000: Appointed Advocate Depute
2002: Appointed Queen's Counsel

PRACTICE:

Principal areas of Practice:

• Health and Safety Prosecutions
• Fatal Accident Inquiries
• Corporate Financial Prosecutions
• Regulatory Prosecutions
• Professional Disciplinary Proceedings

Health and Safety Prosecutions:

Peter has extensive experience in defence of allegations involving the primary duties under the 1974 Act and related statutory regulations, and most recently represented Transco plc in the proceedings brought against the company in the High Court.

Other clients represented in this area include major representatives of the oil, construction, retail, timber, offshore service, haulage industries, and health services.

Fatal Accident Inquiries:

He has been instructed in a number of lengthy and high profile Inquiries, most recently on behalf of Wood Group plc in the Inquiry in relation to the fatal accidents in the offshore industry on Brent Bravo(2006).

Corporate Financial Prosecutions:

He has considerable experience in both the prosecution and defence of a wide range of corporate financial prosecutions in the High Court including those resulting from investigations in relation to Insolvency, offences under the Companies Acts, and Proceeds of Crime legislation.

Regulatory Prosecutions:

He has extensive experience of defending all forms of regulatory prosecutions including:

• environmental prosecutions, and in particular offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;
• offences under the Data Protection Acts,
• criminal aspects of intellectual property law(trademarks and copyright),
• criminal aspects of trading standards law, in particular, product safety, food safety and consumer credit,
• road traffic prosecutions, and in particular offences under Section 1 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Disciplinary Proceedings:

Peter has recently acquired a particular interest in this rapidly developing area, and has experience in appearing before professional disciplinary bodies including the General Medical Council and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS:

Published in May 2008:

Commissioned by Greens Publishers: Annotated Guide to forthcoming legislation: The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• Health and Safety Law Association
• United Kingdom Environmental Law Association
• Scottish Environmental Law Working Party of UKELA
• Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
• Faculty of Advocates Criminal Bar Association (Chairman 2001)

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