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Joseph Green

Associate

BIOGRAPHY & EXPERTISE
Joseph joined Corker Binning as a paralegal in 2024, and was promoted to an associate following his qualification as a solicitor in 2024.

Joseph acts in high profile and complex cases brought by the Serious Fraud Office, and also has a breadth of experience working on matters in both the Magistrates’ and Crown Court. He has assisted clients facing charges of murder, drug conspiracy, possession with intention to supply, money laundering, serious assaults and perverting the course of justice.

Areas of expertise

Joseph advises clients through the entirety of their criminal case. He has a particular experience in cases which are pre-charge, and is committed to providing practical legal advice in relation to bail and representations during an investigation. Joseph’s work also extends into regulatory investigations and proceedings initiated by the Insolvency Service, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Fraud Office and the Competition and Markets Authority.

Joseph is an active member of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association and the Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum.

WORK HIGHLIGHTS
  • Persuaded the CPS to not pursue a charge of outraging public decency on an evidential basis, using a letter of representations.
  • Persuaded the CMA to discontinue an investigation into the obstruction of a CMA officer on public interest grounds, using a letter of representations.
  • Persuaded the CPS to discontinue a charge of common assault against a child on evidential and public interest grounds using a letter of representations.
  • Persuaded the Magistrates’ Court to refuse the extension of a client’s pre-charge bail using written representations on proportionality grounds.

Prior to Corker Binning

  • Persuaded the CPS to discontinue a charge against a vulnerable adult of criminal damage on public interest grounds, using a letter of representations.
  • Defendant charged with the rape of his partner. Acquitted at trial.
  • Youth defendant charged with multiple counts of street robbery. Acquitted at trial.
  • Defendant charged with assault by penetration of a child. Acquitted at trial.
  • Persuaded the CPS to discontinue a case of concern in the supply of class A drugs, after personally obtaining footage to prove our client’s location.
  • Successfully ran exceptional hardship argument for a speeding offence, preventing disqualification.
Career

Joseph graduated from the University of Warwick in 2019 with a Master’s Degree in Chemistry.

He went on to teach English in China, before completing his Law Conversion course in 2020. Joseph joined a leading criminal defence firm in 2021 as a paralegal, where he attended the police station as a probationary representative and assisted on various cases in the criminal courts.

  • Persuaded the CPS to not pursue a charge of outraging public decency on an evidential basis, using a letter of representations.
  • Persuaded the CMA to discontinue an investigation into the obstruction of a CMA officer on public interest grounds, using a letter of representations.
  • Persuaded the CPS to discontinue a charge of common assault against a child on evidential and public interest grounds using a letter of representations.
  • Persuaded the Magistrates’ Court to refuse the extension of a client’s pre-charge bail using written representations on proportionality grounds.

Prior to Corker Binning

  • Persuaded the CPS to discontinue a charge against a vulnerable adult of criminal damage on public interest grounds, using a letter of representations.
  • Defendant charged with the rape of his partner. Acquitted at trial.
  • Youth defendant charged with multiple counts of street robbery. Acquitted at trial.
  • Defendant charged with assault by penetration of a child. Acquitted at trial.
  • Persuaded the CPS to discontinue a case of concern in the supply of class A drugs, after personally obtaining footage to prove our client’s location.
  • Successfully ran exceptional hardship argument for a speeding offence, preventing disqualification.