1 Inner Template Lane, Barristers Chambers
Chris is a specialist defence advocate with a wealth of experience. He predominantly defends but also prosecutes.
Chris is a Level 3 CPS advocate for the South Eastern [London/Non London] and Midland circuits. He is also on the CPS rape panel.Year of call: 1983
Experience
Chris has frequently been instructed in a number of leading criminal cases including murder, manslaughter, allegations of grave violent assaults, rape, sexual offences, firearms offences and serious fraud. He has acted as leading defence counsel in a large number of cases including murder.
Chris’s abilities and successes have secured the backing of a large body of solicitors who regularly instruct him. He has worked extensively in sexual assault cases involving historic allegations of familial sex which have involved detailed forensic examination of social services files, educational and psychiatric reports.
He has also undertaken the role of leading counsel in large scale car-ringing cases, local authority internal frauds, sophisticated retail frauds and bank robberies .He regularly instructed in criminal appeals from referrals and appears for appellants in the Court of Appeal.
Recent cases
R v. Ashok Mahajan 2010
Conducted an appeal against conviction before full Court of Appeal in the case of an appellant who had been convicted of throwing acid over barristers appearing against him in a High Court action he was bringing. High Court barrister burned in courtroom acid attack.
R v. Andre Matthews 2010
Defended an alleged gang member accused of having a sawn off shotgun which was alleged to have been used to threaten others.
R v. Giblin and others 2008
Represented a defendant who was acquitted of his part in a murder and further stabbing of another victim in an alleged racist gang attack in the Isle of Sheppey.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Teen-knifed-death-racists-seaside-break.html
R v. Gerald Wilson 2007
Leading defence counsel for one member of a cash-in-transit robbery gang. Kevin Brown, the leader of said gang, was a notorious criminal. The trial lasted three months and was conducted under the tightest security ever witnessed in an English court.
Video: How police caught dangerous robber (From News Shopper)
R v. Adekunle 2007
Representing as leading counsel one female member of a gang said to have committed the largest alleged fraud of its time on a health authority: NHS fraudsters jailed (From News Shopper)
Other cases (inter alia)
R v. Hunt 2010
Sexual assaults on children within a church congregation.
R v. Nash 2010
Random slashing of stranger giving rise to IPP sentence.
R v. Stoker and others 2010
An internal fraud of a national bread manufacturer by managers worth £300k
R v. Allen 2009
Historic case of buggery and sexual assaults on two young brothers by family friend.
R v. Law-Kwang 2008
A serious stabbing in a public house.
http://www.thelawpages.com/court-cases/Jonathon-A-Law-Kwang-1390-1.law
Reported cases
Regina v. Pommell [1995] 2 Cr. App. R
Regina v. Graham [2007] EWCA Crim 1499
Particular Areas Covered
Chris has a thriving practice in the Military Courts and is often abroad conducting Courts Martial trials. Recently, in 2010, he has been instructed by one of the “Magic Circle” firms to advise a client on internal employee fraud.
Chris has been a pupil supervisor since 1996.
telephone: +44 (0)20 7427 4400
fax: +44 (0)20 7427 4427
email: clerks@1itl.com
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