Colin McCarraher

Call: Lincoln's Inn, 1990

Colin is a specialist criminal advocate who deals with Serious Organised Crime, Serious Fraud, Corruption, Murder, Proceeds of Crime - Drugs Trafficking.

He has a specialist practice in serious Sexual Offences including Rape, Child pornography (Internet distribution) Human Trafficking for Prostitution and all other Sexual Offences.

Colin has a growing number of criminal cases with Russian or Russian speaking Eastern European clients including fraud, illegal immigration matters.

Resident in Russia/USSR 1981 and 1982 in Moscow, Minsk and St. Petersburg.

Defence School of Languages Russian interpreter course 1985 - 1987. Second class civil service interpretership (Navy). Member of the Institute of Linguists (Russian).

Part time teacher of Russian 1987 - 2003 mainly to Armed Forces.

Various interpreter assignments for visiting Russian jurists, judges and advocates in UK.

Qualifications:         Law MA(Cantab) 1989

                              Russian BA(Hons) 2:1 New University of Ulster 1982