About

(His Honour Judge) Michael Hopmeier is a Circuit Judge (appointed July 2009) sitting at Southwark Crown Court, London, United Kingdom, specialising in serious economic crime and confiscation. He is as an Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at City, University of London and is a Bencher of Middle Temple; he holds degrees from Oxford (MA) and London University (LLM).  In 2020 he was appointed as a Deemster (Judge) on the Isle of Man sitting on the Isle of Man Court of Appeal and at first instance.

In 2017 he was appointed Director of the Long and Complex Trials Course at the UK Judicial College and regularly trains Judges and Prosecutors on asset recovery. In 2018 he was appointed to the Advisory Editorial Board of Blackstones’ Criminal Practice.  In 2018 he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee to the International Justice Partnership, York University, Toronto, Canada.

He is a joint Editor and author of Millington and Sutherland Williams on “The Proceeds of Crime” (6^th Edition) published by Oxford University Press, May 2023 and author of a Guide to Restraint and Confiscation published by the UK Judicial College, January 2024. He is a committee member of the Wadham College, Oxford Law Society and of the European Criminal Lawyers Association.

Since 2008, he has regularly trained and lectured to Judges and Prosecutors in England and overseas on behalf of HMRC, the UNODC, OECD, British Embassies overseas, the Council of Europe (CoE) , the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN),  Academy of European Law (ERA) ,the Commonwealth Secretariat and other organisations, on aspects of fighting economic crime, fraud, corruption, money-laundering , criminal and civil asset recovery and case/trial management.