The Crime Group comprises 18 Silks and 37 Juniors offering unrivalled strength in depth and exemplary client service, with specialists providing their expertise in the most complex criminal trials. Our Crime Barristers offer a nationwide service and is regarded as the pre-eminent criminal set on the Midland Circuit. We pride ourselves on our commitment to clients and excellent advocacy.
Our Kings’s Counsel have been instructed on behalf of both the prosecution and the defence in many of the leading criminal trials of the last decade. Our Junior counsel provide instructing solicitors and their clients with expertise at all levels, and at all stages of the criminal process.
Members of the group provide representation throughout the country are regularly involved in serious and high-profile cases. Examples include The News of the World phone hacking case, the MPs’ expenses scandal, numerous Counter Terrorism Trials and the plot to smuggle drugs and phones into prisons which was the subject of a TV documentary.
Counsel prosecute and defend on both a legal aid basis, and on a privately funded basis.
Work is undertaken at all levels with a considerable increase in the amount of regulatory work undertaken over recent years.
We offer barristers with expertise across a range of specialist areas including:
Our counsel are experienced in drafting both grounds of appeal and applications for judicial review.
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Jonas Hankin KC led Chloë Ashley in the case of a father accused of gross negligence manslaughter of his severely disabled six-year-old son. Joseph Davidson,…
