Andrew Marshall has led the prosecution of major fraud and regulatory matters for a range of government agencies. Andrew has been involved in the notoriously difficult prosecutions of many corporates such as Shell and Schindler Lifts.
Andrew is a committed and experienced advocate, whose practice principally relates to large-scale, organised crime cases requiring a strategic overview, normally concerning complex fraud or drugs. Other areas of work include wide-ranging advisory and review work on criminal and quasi-criminal matters (with a particular speciality in disclosure), appellate work and asset forfeiture and restraint.
In addition to being a Grade 4 Advocate (the highest rank) for Crown Prosecution Service, Andrew was appointed to the Attorney General’s list of Prosecuting Counsel in about 1990 and to the list of Standing Counsel in 2005. He has been described in the Legal 500 (2015) as “technically excellent and innovative” and as “a very able and extremely intelligent advocate” under the category of Fraud: crime (including money laundering and asset forfeiture) – Leading juniors.
In June 2012 he was appointed to the Regulatory List (A) of Advocates for the Health & Safety Executive, Office of Rail Regulation and Environment Agency.
He therefore undertakes the most important, serious and complex work for those prosecution agencies under the superintendence of the A-G, principally:
- Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) prosecuting HMRC organised fraud and SOCA organised crime
- Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS, formerly BERR, formerly DTI): major company and insolvency frauds
- Department for Work Pensions
- Department of Health
- Health and Safety Executive
Complementary practice with:
- High-level CPS work
- Complex defence work
- Asset forfeiture and restraint
Andrew was appointed as a Recorder of Crown Court in 2003 and sits as a part-time Judge in various London Crown Courts.
What the directories say
Andrew is a Leading Partner in Legal 500 2025 – Crime, Fraud & Licensing > Private Prosecution and ranked as a Band 1 lawyer in Chambers & Partners – Financial Crime: Private Prosecutions in London.
Recognised with ‘Recommended’ rankings by Who’s Who Legal (WWL) 2024, for outstanding work in Asset Recovery – England.
‘He gives a first class service to his clients and is a very safe pair of hands.’ Chambers & Partners (2022)
‘He is a fantastic lawyer, has great judgement and is enormously skilled.’ Chambers & Partners (2021)
‘utterly respected and one of the best lawyers in fraud’. Legal 500 (2020)
- Andrew Marshall, of Edmonds Marshall McMahon, working on the private prosecution case against the Libyan suspect in the 1984 shooting of Yvonne Fletcher.
- EMM successfully secure convictions in the largest corporate private prosecution
https://www.emmlegal.com/news/emm-successfully-secure-convictions-in-the-largest-corporate-private-prosecution/ - Malicious Facebook post results in £15,000 damages – is a malicious Facebook post also a criminal offence?
https://www.emmlegal.com/publications/facebook-posts-and-criminal-offences/ - Andrew Marshall Contributes to Crisis Management Training
https://www.emmlegal.com/media-events/andrew-marshall-contributes-crisis-management-training/ - R v Andrew John Camilleri (2018) – An IVA Proposal and War of Attrition
https://www.emmlegal.com/news/r-v-andrew-john-camilleri-2018-an-iva-proposal-and-war-of-attrition/ - Andrew Marshall prosecuting QC for VAT fraud
https://www.emmlegal.com/news/andrew-marshall-prosecuting-qc-vat-fraud/ - Andrew Marshall successfully leads prosecution of QC convicted for £600,000 tax fraud
https://www.emmlegal.com/news/andrew-marshall-successfully-leads-prosecution-qc-convicted-600000-tax-fraud/
