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Tim Green KC

“Tim is a class act.” “A fantastic advocate who’s a joy to work with. He really knows how to bring out the best in a team.” ”He is meticulous, hard working and very friendly.”

Chambers UK and Legal 500 2024


Call
1996
Silk
2022

Tim Green KC is widely recognised as an exceptional advocate and a true specialist in the fields of health and safety, product liability, inquiries and inquests and environmental law. He is instructed by the defence in one of the largest ever corporate manslaughter investigations, as well as by core participants in the Grenfell Tower and Covid Public Inquiries. In 2022-23 Tim successfully responded to several complex and sensitive OPSS enforcement interventions against very large manufacturers/suppliers. Tim was short-listed for Health and Safety Silk of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2023 and recommended by Chambers UK and Legal 500 in nine different categories related to investigation and regulatory enforcement. Some of Tim’s recent endorsements from the legal directories are below:

Health and Safety:

  • “He’s a very smooth advocate and courtroom operator.” “His written communication is very strong; he is incisive and cuts to the core issues. He is superb.” “Tim is a very hard-working and generous barrister (Chambers UK 2024).”
  • “Tim is an excellent advocate”. “Tim is very experienced. He takes good care of clients”. “He is measured and on top of the detail (Chambers UK 2023).”
  • “He is well respected in his field, excellent with the detail, a strong advocate and good at applying complex law to factual situations.” “A very good advocate – he holds his own in court and has a lot of gravitas.” “He does have real expertise and is genuinely a specialist in this area (Chambers UK 2022).”
  • “Tim is a key figure in the field of health and safety and leads from the front. His strength is in bringing forward the juniors in the chambers and giving them exposure in order to gain experience (Legal 500 2023).”
  • “Tim is a class act. He knows the legislation backwards and is always up to date with the latest case law (Legal 500 2023).”
  • “He’s conscientious and hard-working.” “He has a fantastic work ethic and is a very accomplished advocate (Legal 500 2022)”.

Inquiries and Inquests:

  • “Tim is good on his feet and strategically astute. He is able to cut through complex technical evidence quickly and efficiently (Chambers UK 2024)”
  • “He is measured and on top of the detail, and the client trusts what he says. He has a commercial understanding of what is important to the client (Chambers UK 2023).”
  • “Tim is extremely approachable. He has an excellent manner with clients and coroners, and is able to gain the confidence and trust of both. He handles witnesses perfectly in what are often very difficult and emotionally charged situations (Legal 500 2023)”
  • “He has a strategic yet sensitive approach which is so critical in inquests and strives to ensure clients receive the best representation (Legal 500 2022).”
  • “He is an excellent advocate. He is a very tenacious barrister but very personable and easy with the clients.” “He’s very measured, assured and knows his stuff. He has a very calm and reassuring approach for clients and lawyers (Chambers UK 2021).”
  • “An excellent advocate, someone who will roll up their sleeves and is able to roll with the punches. Great bedside manner, too (Legal 500 2021).”

Environmental/POCA:

  • “A real grafter who’s incredibly logical in the way he approaches things. He’s not afraid to pull his sleeves up and get down and dirty, and is also just a very pleasant person to work with.” “ He produces great legal arguments which judges love (Chambers UK 2024).”
  • “He’s incredibly logical in the way he approaches things and he has an almost statesman-like aura around him (Chambers UK 2024).”
  • “A fantastic advocate who’s a joy to work with. He really knows how to bring out the best in a team.” “Tim is very easy to work with. He is approachable and has strong commercial awareness” (Chambers UK 2023).
  • “Tim is a natural communicator, and has a fantastic ability to provide clear and succinct legal advice (Legal 500 2022).”
  • “Tim is very well known and does a lot of advisory work (Chambers UK 2022).”

Tim is instructed by most leading and international firms in the UK market, as well as by regulators and governments. Recent clients include Network Rail, Kingspan, Boston Scientific, AB Agri, FM Conway, John Murphy and Sons, the FCA, the HSE, the Gambling Commission and a variety of other very large private and public undertakings. Tim has sat as a Recorder (part-time Crown Court Judge) since 2012 and frequently appears in the appellate courts including these four recent guideline decisions heard since 2018: Evergreen v HSE (bad character evidence in H&S trials), JHSL v HSE (applying H&S Sentencing Guidelines), St Michaels Hospice v ESFRS (sentencing fire safety offences), Workchain v TpR (sentencing data crime) and Bell v HMAG (cash forfeiture arising from simultaneous criminal investigation). Tim is a contributing-editor of the leading textbook “The Proceeds of Crime” and ranked as one of the top ten UK POCA lawyers by “Business Today” magazine.


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Expertise


Health & Safety

Tim is widely acknowledged by Chambers UK and Legal 500 as being one of the Bar’s leaders in health and safety work. He has been instructed in one of the most complex and serious investigations concerning corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter ever undertaken, arising from the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as the full spectrum of HSWA offences across a range of sectors. Tim often advises very large corporate clients on the health and safety aspects of high value commercial disputes where timely advice and commercial sensitivity are paramount. Tim was shortlisted for Health & Safety Silk of the Year 2023 in the Chambers Bar Awards and has been consistently ranked in band 1/tier1 by Chambers UK and the Legal 500 for his health & safety practice. He is also the only KC ranked for this work on the Midlands Circuit.

Over the last three years Tim has defended or prosecuted over 30 cases arising from death or serious injury at work. He also has an extensive advisory practice assisting very private and public undertakings on the application of health & safety law in the context of commercial disputes. Tim has specific experience of health & safety law applied to the following sectors:

  • Agricultural – working at height; use of specialised machinery.
  • Construction – numerous investigations arising from falls from height; asbestos exposure; electrocution whilst conducting roof work; collapsed buildings.
  • Defence – advice and representation in the context of large commercial dispute arising from alleged defects in safety of tanks and armoured vehicles.
  • Engineering – avoidable death in a metal forge; and HAVS/CTS exposure during manufacturing process, PUWER.
  • Fire safety – Fire Safety Order applied to (i) a hospice following arson and deaths of three patients: (ii) to the company director of a housing trust managing multi-occupancy accommodation following two accidental fires.
  • Grenfell Tower – representing large corporate manufacturer of insulation as Core Participant.
  • Health care – avoidable deaths in care homes arising from unsuitable hospital environment.
  • Logistics – advice and representation to large civil engineering undertakings in HSE investigations arising from deaths at work and on the highways.
  • Manufacturing – advice and representation to multi-national corporations facing OPSS investigations into alleged breaches of UK and EU product standards.
  • Waste industry – death of a binman on waste collection rounds; multiple investigations following deaths in recycling/scrap metal works; accidental death through falling into a lorry bin.

Tim’s health & safety practice also includes regular instructions to appear at inquests representing companies, public bodies, charities and families of the deceased before juries and/or where Article 2 of the ECHR is engaged. His clients include several FTSE 100 companies where the impact of the inquiry on prosecution and upon reputational risk is a paramount.

Tim is instructed by most leading and international firms in the UK market, as well as by regulators and governments. Recent clients include Network Rail, Kingspan, Boston Scientific, AB Agri, FM Conway, John Murphy and Sons, the FCA, the HSE, Gambling Commission and a variety of other very large private and public undertakings. Tim has sat as a Recorder (part-time Crown Court Judge) since 2012 and frequently appears in the appellate courts including these four recent guideline decisions heard since 2018: HSE v Evergreen (bad character evidence in regulatory crime), HSE v John Henry and Sons Ltd (applying H&S Sentencing Guidelines), ESFRS v St Michael’s Hospice (sentencing fire safety offences), Workchain v TpR (sentencing data crime) and Bell v HMAG (cash forfeiture arising from simultaneous criminal investigation). Tim is a contributing-editor of the leading textbook “The Proceeds of Crime”.

In the past 4 years Tim has been asked to deliver training on best practice in advocacy, law and process at the HSLA annual conference (twice), London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.

Representative cases

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  • R v K Ltd 2022

    Defending highly sensitive and complex investigation into corporate manslaughter arising from catastrophic fire.

  • Re G Ltd 2022

    Advising multi-national defence contractor on health and safety concerns that are key to very high value commercial litigation.

  • Re M Ltd 2022

    Advising multi-national car manufacturer on health and safety risks and liability arising from alleged defects.

  • Re L Ltd 2022

    Represented a global construction company in precedent setting OPSS investigation into alleged product defects.

  • HI&S v Elder Grange Limited 2021 IoM

    Defence of care home company in prosecution arising from fire in sheltered accommodation.

  • HSE v EES Chelmsford CC 2021

    Defending in a 2-week trial prosecuted by the HSE arising from very serious accident on building site concerning correct applications of CDM Regulations.

Environment

Tim has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading advocates in environmental law since he successfully appeared for the defence in the leading environmental case of EA v Thorn International [2008] EWHC 2595 (Admin). In 2012 he was appointed to the Attorney General’s “A Panel” of approved regulatory counsel. Tim has been ranked by Chambers UK as a leader in this field for

14 years and in silk has an extensive advice practice working for very large public and private undertakings on all aspects of environmental law, regulatory compliance and enforcement with particular emphasis on the waste, nuclear and biofuels industries. He has particular expertise in the use of civil sanctions and POCA in the context of alleged infringements of environmental law.

In the last 10 years he has received instructions to advise and defend many of the UK’s largest environmental concerns and their directors in all aspects of environmental enforcement including:

  • Pre-action advice and submissions to the Agency by a leading UK soil manufacturer.
  • Advice and representation to various London Boroughs engaged in high value civil litigation arising from a contractual dispute with large environmental concern.
  • Civil appeals against the refusal of an environmental permit and/or Agency accreditation.
  • The use of Civil Undertakings as an alternative to prosecution for a successful waste operator.
  • A 6-week trial and contested confiscation in Sheffield CC arising from fly-tipping on an industrial scale.
  • A 3-week trial and contested confiscation in Hereford CC arising from deliberate misuse of a quarry for illegal storage of waste.
  • Confiscation and restraint where waste crime has been a species of economic crime.

Tim’s environmental advisory practice includes all aspects of environmental compliance of EU/UK/Agency rules with particular emphasis on the waste and biofuels industries. Tim is a contributing editor to LexisNexis PSL on waste law and frequently advises very large public and private undertakings on the impact of environmental regulation and law in the context of large scale commercial disputes or compliance litigation.

 

Representative cases

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  • MCA v Port of London Authority (“PLA”) and others Snaresbrook CC 2019

    Successful defence of the PLA accused of serious maritime safety offences arising from a fatality on the Thames when a tug boat was “run over” by a barge it was towing down the River Thames. Trial before Thornton J lasting 7 weeks and hearing evidence from eight maritime experts. Acquitted.

  • Re a global telephone mobile telephone distributor 2019

    Advised multi-national company on compliance with EU waste law following acquisition of competitor.

  • Re CFL and AD 2019

    Represented corporate landlord and director in proceedings following alleged breach of listed building consent for large scale commercial gain.

  • Re a waste management company 2018

    Advised a large scale waste management company to settle a prosecution brought by the EA for the alleged deliberate breach of the EPR using civil undertakings as an alternative.

  • EA v A Ltd and directors 2018

    Instructed by the EA in respect of unlawful storage of huge quantities of highly flammable waste creating serious risk of category 1 pollution event (very large fire in an urban area beside A roads). Complex fire risk and confiscation proceedings.

  • Re a biofuels company 2017

    Advised an innovative biofuels concern as to how successfully overcome EA resistance to the issuing of an environmental permit.

Inquests, Inquiries & Investigations

Inquiries and inquests are an essential part of Tim’s practice. He has been instructed since 2019 by Kingspan Insulation in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and to represent the HSE in the Covid Inquiry. His clients in this field include Gowlings, BLM, DWF, DAC Beachcroft, Knights, Addleshaw Goddard, Kennedy’s, Fisher Boyles, VWV, Network Rail and most leading national firms. In particular, Tim is very experienced in the application of A2 of the ECHR to the Coroners’ Court and in handling jury inquests. He is very well versed in the sensitive and complex disclosure and tactical issues that arise in simultaneous coronial, criminal and civil inquiries.

Tim has special experience of the Traffic Commissioner and has recently represented FTSE 250 companies concerned with revocation of vehicle licences at public inquiries.

In June 2020 Tim delivered a webinar concerning recent changes to inquest law and procedure to over 200 members for the Health and Safety Lawyers Association (“HSLA”). This followed Tim’s other successful partnerships with HSLA delivering advice on best practice before the HSLA annual conferences in 2019, 2018 and 2017 and a similar “road show” seminar program in 2016.

Representative cases

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  • The Covid Inquiry 2023

    Representing and leading the HSE response in this highly complex and sensitive Public Inquiry into the UK’s response to the pandemic.

  • Re Grenfell Tower Inquiry from 2019

    Representing a very large corporation as a Core Participant in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry which manufactured insulation that was used in the cladding system at the Tower. Unprecedented sensitivity and complexity.

  • Re VW 2023

    Representing a large civil engineering company in complex inquest arising from road traffic accident in temporary road traffic management works.

  • Re DT 2023

    Representing a large engineering company at inquest concerning death of a motorcyclist.

  • Re OM 2021

    Representing a Academy Trust during 4-week inquest arising from suicide of teenager.

  • Re Redmond and Parris 2021

    Representing a large construction company in 4-week inquest arising from two deaths on a railway line during complex engineering works.

Product Safety

Tim Green KC is one of the Bar’s leading experts in product liability, product regulation, safety and enforcement. He has appeared in precedent setting contested applications against enforcement notices and product recall before the OPSS for various very large manufacturers, as well as against trading standards in negotiation, enforcement and trials arising out alleged defects in products and services. Tim frequently advises many global manufacturers in the engineering, bioscience and defence sectors on all aspects of product standards, safety, compliance and enforcement both before and during litigation and enforcement.

Representative cases

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  • Re a US manufacturer 2023

    Advice and negotiation with trading standards in respect of self-reporting, enforcement and litigation risk for large US based home furnishings manufacturer.

  • Re OPSS v B Ltd 2023

    Advice and representation to a very large construction manufacturer in OPSS enforcement action arising from alleged breach of EU standards.

  • Re OPSS v KI Ltd 2023

    Advice and representation to a global manufacturer in the construction sector as to response, challenge and appeal against an OPSS investigation, enforcement notices and recall.

  • Re GD Ltd 2023

    Advice to a global defence manufacturer in £3.5bn commercial dispute with HMG arising out of alleged defects in product standards.

  • Re MB Ltd 2022

    Advice to multi-national luxury vehicle manufacturer as to compliance with EU/UK product standards and reputational and enforcement risks arising from alleged shortcomings.

  • Re BS Ltd 2021-22

    Advice and representation to a US medical products manufacturer as to reputational risks arising from product defects and ensuing inquests.

Financial Regulation

Tim frequently advises and represents large commercial concerns and their officers facing investigation by the FCA, SFO, HMRC, Trading Standards, FRC, The Pensions Regulator ( “TPR”)and other financial regulators. He regularly defends company officers against TPR allegations of malfeance arising from the administration of company pension schemes and was recently instructed by The Pensions Regulator to bring its first ever prosecution for general economic crime arising out of deliberate and systematic abuse of the automatic enrolment scheme for workplace pensions by a large company and its officers.

Between 2014 and 2022 Tim was directed to exercise the statutory functions of the Attorney General of the Isle of Man in respect of the Island’s largest ever investigation into tax fraud and money laundering.

Tim has a particular interest in AML law, the rules of beneficial ownership and financial regulation in off-shore financial center’s arising from his work in the Crown Dependencies.

He is an editor of the Lexis Nexis Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law and is a contributing editor to the latest edition of The Proceeds of Crime by Millington and Sutherland Williams.

In 2012 Tim was seconded to a “Technical Specialist” role in the FCA Enforcement Division and subsequently led FCA enforcement activity against banks, hedge funds, investment houses, retail financial services firms and senior managers, giving him an excellent knowledge of FCA principles, rules, powers and processes. He now frequently advises investment firms, lenders, solicitors and high net wealth individuals of their responsibility under FSMA and the FSA Handbook, as well as how to strategically and tactically best respond to an FSA

 

Representative cases

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  • Op V. 2021

    Advised on complex multi-handed pensions fraud.

  • TPR v Workchain Ltd [2019] EWCA 1422

    Instructed by the Pensions Regulator in respect of a precedent setting prosecution of a company, its directors and managers arising from unauthorised access to automatic enrolment data contrary to the Computer Misuse Act.

  • Re a large cosmetics company 2018

    Advising and representing a large cosmetics business on managing and resisting a sensitive inquiry brought in respect of products sold and services supplied.

  • Bell v HMAG [2018] 2 ES

    Successfully upheld a civil asset recovery order arising from a concurrent criminal investigation in another jurisdiction before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

  • Re a developer 2017

    Advising a leading solicitor’s firm on its regulatory obligations in respect of the sale of investments in an unregulated collective investment scheme.

     

  • Re Peer to Peer Lending 2017

    Advising a large US investor on the FCA rules governing P2P lending platforms and associated regulation.

Proceeds of Crime

Tim Green has been recommended by Chambers UK as one the Bar’s leaders in proceeds of crime work for the last 10 years. In a unique appointment, Tim is authorised to exercise the powers of the Attorney General of the Isle of Man in respect of a complex multi-jurisdictional money laundering investigation and is an expert in the regulation and enforcement of AML in offshore financial centres.

Tim is frequently instructed by FTSE 250 companies and their officers; international and national firms; banks, lenders and regulators to act as advisor and advocate in respect of difficult investigations arising from AML compliance, cash forfeiture, asset recovery and confiscation. He recently advised an offshore government on the investigation and prosecution of sophisticated financial crime arising from corporate malfeasance and bankruptcy. Tim was a member of the national committee of the Proceeds of Crime Lawyer Association for 5 years and is a contributing editor to OUP’s “The Proceeds of Crime”.

Representative cases

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  • Re Op B 2015-2023

    Complex multi-jurisdictional fraud and money laundering operation.

  • Re GIGL Croydon CC 2020

    Representing Global Casino brand asserting third parties’ rights to a disputed account balance following unlawful gaming.

  • Operation B 2014 - 2019

    Multi-jurisdictional investigation into large scale tax fraud and money laundering concerning a variety of off-shore financial centres and the professional services sector.

  • Re a Global Lender 2018

    Advice to bespoke lender applying flexible application of the KYC and due diligence rules in various EU AML Codes.

  • Bell v HMAG [2018] 2 ES

    Precedent-setting application for cash forfeiture before the Staff of Government Division of the High Court of the Isle of Man and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

  • Re a Gaming Firm 2017

    Off-shore AML advice arising from shareholder dispute.

 

What the directories say


"Tim is a class act. He knows the legislation backwards and is always up to date with the latest case law."
Legal 500 2023 and 2024

"Tim is a key figure in the field of health and safety and leads from the front. His strength is in bringing forward the juniors in the chambers and giving them exposure in order to gain experience."
Legal 500 2024

"Tim is extremely approachable. He has an excellent manner with clients and coroners, and is able to gain the confidence and trust of both. He handles witnesses perfectly in what are often very difficult and emotionally charged situations."
Legal 500 2024

"Tim is a natural communicator, and has a fantastic ability to provide clear and succulent legal advice."
Legal 500 2024

"A real grafter who's incredibly logical in the way he approaches things. He's not afraid to pull his sleeves up and get down and dirty, and is also just a very pleasant person to work with."
Chambers UK 2024

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Appointments
  • 2022 King’s Counsel (QC).
  • 2014 Authorised as Attorney General Isle of Man for Operation Braid.
  • 2012 to present – Recorder Crime (SSO ticket).
  • 2012 to present – “A Panel” Attorney General’s List of Approved Regulatory Counsel (reappointed 2019).
Publications
  • Contributing Editor – “Lexis Nexis Financial Services Encyclopedia”
  • Contributing Editor – “The Proceeds of Crime” by OUP

Memberships
  • HSLA
  • FSLA
  • POCLA
  • UKELA
  • Midland Circuit

 

Education
  • 1996 – Kalisher Scholarship, Grays Inn
  • 1996 – Very Competent, BVC
  • 1995 – Commendation Diploma in Law
  • 1994 – MA Magdalen College, Oxford
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