Ben Isaacs acts in parallel public and criminal export control case relating to military goods.
The case, Operation Armchair – EDM Limited, concerned allegations of unlicensed exports of fighter jet simulators to an end user in a non-permitted destination in the Middle East. Ben was instructed by the Crown to prosecute the corporate defendant and to resist a series of judicial review challenges.
The latter concerned HMRC’s compound settlement process and the CPS decision to prosecute, while the arguments at trial centred on the definition of ‘military goods’, the interplay between CEMA 1979 and the 2008 Export Control Order, abuse of process and several jurisdictional challenges. The defendant was convicted of all charges.
Ben was instructed by the Serious Economic Organised Crime and International Directorate of the CPS and HMRC’s Strategic Exports & Sanctions Enforcement team.
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