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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Operation Tavara” saw the prosecution of three men for murder and possession of a firearm following the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Connor Brookes in Walsall…
Matthew Brook KC and Siobhan Collins, instructed by Paul Farrow of the Complex Casework Unit, prosecuted a man who murdered his vulnerable father in Tamworth…
Harpreet Sandhu KC and Daniel Oscroft prosecuted two defendants who were convicted of the manslaughter of an 80-year old man, Bhim Kohli. The defendants were…
No5 Barristers’ Chambers is pleased to announce that Giles Pengelly has been appointed as a Deputy Traffic Commissioner by the Secretary of State for Transport….
‘Operation Thistle’ concerned a police investigation into the death of Rhys Howell in a bed-sit in Skegness on 19th August last year. Police were called…
Andrew Wallace prosecuted the actor Alexander Westwood, who following a lengthy trial, in which he steadfastly denied all the allegations, was convicted of a catalogue…
I. Introduction The common law has developed a ‘rule against hearsay’. For present purposes, ‘hearsay’ is evidence that emanates ultimately from someone, W, who has…
Siobhan Collins and Sarah Slater were instructed by West Midlands SVOC to prosecute Saabir Mohamed and Tygon Cogger in relation to a shooting which occurred…
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,…
The defendants, Demalji Hadza, Abubaker Alezawy, Ali Hassan, Wasim Omar and Mohammed Sharif undertook the campaign of robberies across Derby and Birmingham between April 2023…
The appellant is represented by Philip Rule KC, Henry Orren Merren IV (of George Town, Grand Cayman), and Samir Amin. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council…
Andrew Wallace prosecuted Alexander Westwood, a young actor, who has appeared in several Netflix productions including ‘Sex Education’. He was a manipulative sexual predator who…
Joshua Purser prosecuted a Church of England priest at Warwick Crown Court charged with 12 counts of sexual abuse against two victims. After a three-week…
Operation Hunterion saw the conviction of 12 Defendants involved in the supply of cocaine and heroin across 4 drug lines: Rico, Diego, Figo and Potter. …
Jonas Hankin KC was instructed by West Midlands CPS CCU in an unusual and challenging case concerning the death of a 3-year-old child, Abiyah Yasharahyalah,…
