Paul Barnes is Director of Paul Barnes and Associates Ltd (www.paulbarnes.org.uk) which conducts paid expert witness and forensic accounting services in areas of financial crime.

Since 2000, he has acted as an expert witness throughout the world in both criminal and civil cases including some of the large market abuse, insider dealing and boiler room trials criminal trials in the UK.

More recently, he has acted as an expert witness in respect of mainly civil cases, claims and financial disputes concerning stocks and shares and retail derivatives such as foreign exchange (forex), contracts for difference (CFD) binary options, spread betting etc, including a class action and a criminal case for the FCA.