CRIMINAL REFERRAL SERVICE

Pavocat Chambers’ barristers offer a Criminal Referral Service primarily designed by them for corporations, companies, charities and international governmental and non-governmental organisations.  Any such entity that is the victim of or involved in any way in the eradication or reduction of corruption in its many and varied forms can benefit from engaging this service.

International criminals and syndicates often evade justice because insufficient information, intelligence or evidence exists in one place to warrant already stretched and pressurised national police services commencing and maintaining a criminal investigation.  The Criminal Referral Service offered by our barristers is a specialist service by which they seek, on behalf of their respective client, to identify and marshal as much of the available inculpatory knowledge as possible into one sophisticated and highly persuasive report, which then permits them to advocate convincingly through various channels for the commencement of a police led criminal investigation.  Evidence and targeted advocacy may well cause law enforcement bodies to act when otherwise they may not.

The referral service is adaptable and highly flexible, and it can be utilised for a variety of situations and events.  For example, passing-off counterfeit products as originals self-evidently damages the business, brand and reputations of legitimate manufacturers.  The ability to produce, transport and market fake goods globally is inextricably linked to corruption.  By instructing our barristers to perform this service enables the victims of such behaviour to engage proactively in countering those criminals that are effectively stealing their revenue and damaging their businesses. 

Similarly, those organisations and entities dealing with important and immensely sensitive matters in challenging jurisdictions, such as the awful trade in trafficking of women and children, refugees and products from endangered species (e.g., ivory and rhino horn), could benefit immeasurably from the light shined by the production and delivery by a Pavocat Chambers’ barrister of a hard-hitting, focused and undeniable report of suspected criminality.