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Background

Sam Leach

Call: 2023

Sam accepted tenancy in October 2024 after completing a specialist Crime Pupillage under the supervision of Tom Schofield KC. He is instructed to prosecute and defend across Crown Courts in the Midlands. He has undertaken trials both alone and as a led junior involving serious offences such as sexual assault, Class A drug supply and armed robbery. As well as being a CPS Level 2 General Crime Prosecutor, Sam has been instructed as disclosure junior.

Sam also accepts instructions in the areas of regulatory and environmental law, including recent cases for the Nursing & Midwifery Council. He is keen to expand his work in these areas.

Before starting pupillage, Sam lived in Accra as a rugby league coach where he worked to set up the sport in Ghana. He was subsequently employed as a clerk & legal researcher at a barristers’ chambers in London helping members with case preparation.

Expertise

Crime

Sam has completed a range of short work and trials in the Youth, Magistrates and Crown Courts. These have included sexual offences, drugs, violent crime and driving offences.

He has conducted trials alone and as a led junior as well as being instructed as a disclosure junior.

 

Regulatory

Sam has started to grow a regulatory practice. This has included work on behalf of the Nursing & Midwifery Council as a case presenter and achieving a beneficial outcome for a client under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

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  • Midlands Circuit
  • Criminal Bar Association
  • Young Legal Aid Lawyers
  • Level 2 CPS General Crime Prosecutor
  • City, University of London- BVS
  • University of Law- GDL
  • University of Oxford- MSc Migration Studies
  • University of Birmingham- BA Political Science with History

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5 new tenants for No5

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