Christian Jowett

Judicial Appointments

• Recorder, Authorisations: Crime (including Serious Sexual Offences); Family (2019)
• Deputy District Judge (Civil): Authorisations: Civil; Financial Remedies; Family (2010)

Panel Appointments

• Attorney General’s Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (2007 to date), Region: Wales, Panel: A (allocated on 2018 Panel restructuring; re-appointed 2021-2027)
• Specialist Panel of Regulatory Advocates (2012 to date), Health & Safety and Environmental Law – List A (appointed 2019; re-appointed 2024)
• CPS Level 4 Prosecutor (appointed 2009)
  • Level 4 Proceeds of Crime Panel (2020)
  • Level 4 Fraud Panel (2018)
  • CPS General List (appointed 2002)

• Joseph Hume Scholarship in Law, University College London (1999-2000)
• Holt Award, Gray’s Inn (1998-1999)
• Simmons & Simmons Property II Law Prize, University College London (1996-1997)
• Andrews Prize for Laws, University College London (1995-1996)

• LLM, University College London (2000)
• Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law (1999)
• LLB (Hons), University College London (1998)

• UK Environmental Law Association: Two terms as Trustee and Executive Committee, and Co-convenor of Wales Devolved Administration Group
• Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association
• Criminal Bar Association
• Agricultural Law Association
• Revenue Bar Association
• Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Civil Mediation Council Registered Mediator (Civil & Commercial)

• Operations Bantam and Seine (ongoing) – Inner London Crown Court and Oxford Crown Court. Defence in multi-handed conspiracies concerning food safety and animal by-products.
• R (Pembrokeshire County Council) v S&S (2023-2025) – Swansea Crown Court. Prosecution of cruelty and neglect offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, with related civil applications for orders under s20 Animal Welfare Act 2006; complicated by abuse of process issues arising from the availability and sourcing of public funding for an appropriate defence expert.
• Re: The UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership (2024) – Instructed by the Government Legal Department in relation to the then UK Government’s scheme for the processing of asylum claims in Rwanda.
• Operation Grace (2024) (Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court and High Court (KBD) (Admin)- Applications for cash and account forfeiture orders in excess of £2.5 million under Part 5 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; following the grant of orders, the respondent’s application for permission for judicial review was refused.
• Operations Alyssum, Handicap and Flax (2024) – Northampton Magistrates’ and Crown Courts. Prosecution of multi-handed large-scale offending concerning houses in multiple occupation.
• R (CPS) v Northampton Magistrates Court [2024] EWHC 2860 (Admin) – The correct approach to recovery of inter partes costs in criminal judicial review.
• R (CPS) v Northampton Magistrates Court [2024] EWHC 2324 (Admin) – Judicial review of an inter partes costs order made by the defendant court, arising from a discontinued prosecution under s3 Protection of Badgers Act 1992. Issues included the need for expert evidence to identify a ‘badger sett’ for the purposes of s14 Protection of Badgers Act 1992 and the correct approach to inter partes costs orders under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.
• NRW v P&P (2023) – Swansea Crown Court.Defence in complex confiscation proceedings arising from unlicensed water impoundment and abstraction for a hydroelectricity project, with particular focus on the effect of Article 1, Protocol 1 to the ECHR.
• R (HSE) v Tata Steel & Another (2023) – Swansea Crown Court): Prosecution concerning workplace health and safety and an industrial accident.
• R (NRW) v C & Others (2021) – Swansea Crown Court): Defence in confiscation proceedings arising from large-scale unlawful waste depositing.
• R v Morgan [2013] EWCA Crim. 1307, [2013] Lloyd’s Rep FC 655, [2014] Env.L.R. 5 – An appeal against a confiscation order arising from an environmental prosecution; intersection between criminal confiscation, environmental regulation, landfill tax and the effect of Article 1, Protocol 1 to the ECHR.

• Christian curates various pages on environmental law enforcement at Lexis+ Corporate Crime
• Criminal Confiscation, Trusts of Land and Financial Remedies, [2022] 1 Financial Remedies Journal 56
• Equitable accounting and bankruptcy, [2017] Fam. Law. 652
• The illegality defence, trusts of land and the family lawyer: Patel v Mirza, [2016] Fam. Law. 1208
• Confiscation Orders and Waste Depositing Offences, e-law: the Journal of the UK Environmental Law Association, Vol. 90 Sep/Oct-15
• The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in Financial Remedy Proceedings, Family Law Week (2011), co-authored with Rhys Taylor