Crime

Overview

Our talented team of criminal barristers are well regarded, successful, professional and approachable with members at all levels of seniority both prosecuting and defending across the whole spectrum of criminal law.

We have an experienced team that includes Senior Treasury Counsel and King’s Counsel, leading and junior counsel, many of whom are ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. Members of chambers also frequently train others in advocacy, most recently providing advocacy training to the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in The Hague.

More junior members bring experience of other practice areas, such as inquests and civil actions against the police to their criminal advocacy. This combination of breadth of practice and depth of experience enables us to provide a service to our clients which we consider cannot be matched by more traditional criminal sets.

The team is clerked by David Landa and Lauren Carter, who between them have a wealth of experience, and are highly regarded. They are efficient, professional and approachable and are able to assist you in choosing the right barrister for your case, liaising with you and the courts as the case proceeds.

We regularly appear in high profile, sensitive and difficult cases both in the Crown Court and at Appellate level. These including homicide and serious violence, terrorism, serious organised crime and serious sexual offences such as child abuse and rape. Please see our separate page for our Fraud and Financial Crime work.

All of our members are CPS Panel Advocates, whilst many of our members are on more specialist lists; the CPS Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel, the Serious Crime Group Panel, the Serious Fraud Office Panel, the Regulatory Panel, the Counter Terrorism Panel and the Extradition Panel.

Whilst most of our work is in the Crown Court on the South Eastern Circuit, our members also regularly appear in the Court of Appeal, Administrative/Divisional Court, and Magistrates’ Courts in every part of the country.

Crime Expertise

• Financial Crime

Notable Cases

• R v Wayne Couzens
  Prosecuting the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard
• R v Bottarelli
  Prosecution of a maintenance worker at Central Middlesex Hospital, who attempted to kill several of his colleagues during a spree of unprovoked and savage attacks.
• R v BP
  Secured acquittal (conviction for lesser offence of manslaughter) in a 4-handed murder involving Zombie knives
• R v DC
  High-profile prosecution of a police officer who was convicted of 49 counts including over 70 serious sexual offences against 13 victims and sentenced to life imprisonment with a tariff of 32 years.
• R v NS, SR, SU and NB
  Prosecution of 4 defendants arranging international criminality on a massive scale involving hundreds of kilos of raw Ketamine imported to Germany for processing and onward supply to the UK and two importations of 46 tonnes of Cocaine direct from South America.
• R v BX
  Defending in a double rape.
• R v TT
  High-profile case of a neo-Nazi extremist who targeted prominent politicians, including Jeremy Corbyn MP, Dominic Grieve MP, Hilary Benn MP, and John Bercow MP, threatening them with “a white tsunami of hate and revenge”, as part of a sustained campaign of virulently racist, anti-Semitic, and violent abuse.
• R v A & Ors
  Multi-handed conspiracy concerning the importation and supply of Class A drugs, which were smuggled into the UK via Dover under the guise of a furniture removal business, utilising sophisticated hides. The largest importation was approximately 1.5 tonnes of cocaine concealed within a shipping container of bananas from Columbia.
• R v Anderson
  Prosecution of an attempted murder involving a shooting between rival gangs on a busy street in broad daylight shortly after the making of a drill video.
• Operation Malina
  First ever prosecution brought under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to involve trafficking victims for the purposes of carrying out fraud.  Nearly thirty vulnerable young girls were physically and sexually exploited by a gang led by Isaiah Olugosi.
• R v Thomas Mair
  High profile murder of Jo Cox MP.
• R v Max Clifford
  Prosecution of media mogul for sexual offences.
• Operation Callahan
  Prosecuting the first offences under the Wireless Telecommunications Act and fraud, committed by business setting up an unregistered telecommunications network and defrauding Vodafone.