Crime

Ali Bajwa is an excellent advocate, and is calm and collected inside and outside of court. He knows cases better than anyone and provides an excellent advocacy training programme.

Ali has an incredibly smart legal brain and is brilliant with clients.

Ali Naseem Bajwa KC is one of the foremost murder silks in his generation. Ali is a very gifted lawyer and an advocate of the highest integrity.

He is an amazing jury advocate with clear and powerful drafting skills.

Crispin is one of the best speech writers at the Bar.

Aylett is a top prosecutor.

Crispin Aylett is a first-choice advocate for the most serious cases.

Laws is great, super smart and client-friendly, and she is also really good in court.

Her cross-examination is incredible and her level of sophistication is second to none.

Eleanor Laws is a leading silk in offences of a sexual nature. Her court presence is superb.

She shows 100% commitment and is a great tactician. Laws is formidable.

Eleanor is the absolute leader of her field. She truly is the go-to barrister for this work.

Jeremy has shown great ability in a number of serious cases.

David Jeremy is the best criminal silk. He is utterly fearless and has tremendous command of the law. He has a commanding presence.

He is a go-to for complex financial cases. He is one of the best.

David Spens KC is really experienced, has a very light touch and is great with juries and appeals.

David Spens is incredibly knowledgeable and has significant expertise in dealing with complicated matters. He is always prepared and is a very strong advocate in the courtroom.

He is one of the most concise and precise advocates. He is very to the point and is extremely effective for it.

He is an amazing doyen of the Bar and is a top prosecutor.

Ed Brown has an excellent rapport with his solicitors and his lay clients. He presents a case with absolute ease, however complicated it is.

Orla Daly gets results in some of the most difficult cases around.

Her client care skills are second to none.

She is a go-to junior for those instructing counsel to defend serious sexual allegations. Her judgement is spot-on.

She is really great to work with and has excellent judgement.

Philip Evans KC combines being really thorough and detail-oriented with having a real presence in front of the jury.

Evans was a bright advocate with amazing client skills in a really sensitive case.

Evans is very good in court, tenacious, to the point, a ferocious cross-examiner and highly effective at interrogating the evidence.

He is exceptionally bright and a walking Archbold. He has a great presence in court.

Sean Larkin KC is a quietly brilliant silk who is universally liked and respected by judges.

He is amazing with clients. He is a fantastic advocate in court. For serious offences, he is one of the best.

He knows exactly what he is doing with each and every case.

He is extremely efficient, reliable and his advocacy cannot be faulted.

Johnson really is very effective.

Zoe Johnson produces excellent written advocacy in advance. In the courtroom she has a real presence.

Zoe Johnson KC is fantastic, like an encyclopaedia. Her manner and delivery are the best.

He knows his stuff inside-out.

Philip McGhee handles complexity extremely well and is a very calm, persuasive advocate.

McGhee is a very hard-working, intelligent junior with excellent judgement.

Phil is a brilliant junior. He commands the respect of the court and juries really like him.

Philip Stott is excellent and possesses a lot of ability.

He is a very good advocate. His approach is hard-working and dedicated.

Boyce is brilliant at cross-examination and pleas in mitigation. He has a very good manner with clients and is supremely clever.

Her advocacy skills and preparation are second to none. She is respected by her peers and the judiciary and has first-class judgement. Her written work is always faultless.

Anna Whyte KC pays exceptional attention to thorny legal issues and delivers on time.

He is very knowledgeable and easy to get along with.

He works incredibly hard for each and every client.

Benn Maguire is a great negotiator in highly sensitive cases that involve a careful touch.

Maguire is a very good and experienced advocate.

Fiona is inventive, creative, patient with clients and exceptionally hard-working. In particular, her written work is of high quality.

Fiona Robertson is an absolute star, with a great work ethic, fantastic client-handling skills and a real presence in and out of court.

Her judgement is second to none.

Kerry Broome is very pleasant and formidable in court.

She is one of the top prosecutors in the country.

Paul Wakerley is a highly experienced, approachable and robust barrister.

He is a go-to for drug and or violence cases. He is incredibly bright and has the best judgement and tactical ability.

He is a fantastic junior and very experienced in that category. Nothing fazes him. His calming influence is really impressive.

An outstanding jury advocate, who is always on top of the brief.

Rachna Gokani is an excellent crime and regulatory practitioner with an eye for detail and excellent drafting skills.

She was great in her advocacy. She was well prepared, forensic and she knew when to stop.

Stevens is brilliant at cross-examining witnesses and is very effective in front of different sorts of tribunals.

Susannah is a fantastic lawyer. She is measured, effective and focused.

Susannah is a good junior in terms of preparation. Her junior work is extremely good.

Tom is very hard-working. He is exceptional.

Tom Broomfield absorbed the instructions very quickly. He was good on his feet; good with the client, and good at negotiating with the other parties.

He never fails to impress with his genuine commitment.

Fallon Alexis oozes quality with all aspects of her casework and advocacy.

Fallon is really good at getting stuck into the evidence and is a pleasure to work with.

She is calm and composed under pressure. She is polished and so good.

Fraser Coxhill is an impressive junior. He has great attention to detail and produces careful analysis of complex legal issues. His client care is great.

He is able to digest volumes of material very quickly and with great attention to detail. Clients all give very positive feedback about Fraser both in and out of the courtroom.

Coxhill is pretty faultless. He is very diligent and very good with defendants.

Fraser Coxhill does quite a bit of criminal work involving police officers, and we will always go to him for that work.

He stands out as a class act.

He was a brilliant advocate, really good on the law and a lovely guy.

Julian Evans KC is outstanding in all ways. He is the epitome of a really good prosecutor. He fights hard but does so in a fair and attractive way, advocacy-wise.

He is a really solid advocate.

Nicholas Corsellis KC is a really reassuring presence in both the conference room as well as the courtroom. He is always all over the detail. He has the best client care in the business.

He is very talented all-round, with particular expertise in financial crime. He is highly liked by clients.

Paul Raudnitz KC is extremely efficient, reliable and his advocacy cannot be faulted.

Raudnitz is down to earth and client-friendly, despite his impressive legal talent. His case preparation is meticulous.

Paul's ability to understand and communicate on even the most nuanced of matters is unprecedented. His judgement is astute and his client care is phenomenal. In court, he is a master of his craft.

Tom Kark KC is very good. He carries a weight and is a very understated and elegant advocate. He engaged with the jury well and was great on his feet.

Adam King's robust approach to his cases is unmatched. He has an excellent understanding of the law and legal language.

Adam King is extremely proficient in offences involving a sexual element.

Adam is a go-to member of chambers for his unyielding approach to every case he does. His commitment to client care and his ability to pick up a case and run with it is first-class.

Clients are always very happy with him and his advocacy.

She is extremely caring and empathetic, but takes no prisoners when dealing with the prosecuting authorities. She is just a real team player.

She is precise and has complete knowledge of her cases as well as being friendly, approachable and respectful.

Alexandra Felix is highly intelligent and is an incredibly strong advocate, challenging every aspect of a case.

She is a good advocate.

Her ability to soak up information is unrivalled.

She is a quick thinker and a machine. She just knows her case inside and out.

She is hard-working, and has great judgement. She is good in court.

Jocelyn Ledward KC is a class act with a complete command of the law.

Jonathan has an encyclopaedic brain. He is an engaging individual and is so accomplished in different areas of the law.

Jonathan Polnay KC is a first-choice advocate for the most serious, complex and sensitive cases.

Jonathan Polnay is well known for prosecution, but he also has a great defence practice. He is very straight-talking, which clients like.

Polnay is very dedicated to a case, tactically very aware and always one step ahead.

She is really good at crunching through facts. At advocacy and cross-examining, she is really effective.

Karen Robinson has a great mixed crime practice.

She is very approachable and knowledgeable. She does not over promise and under deliver. Karen is first-class.

Roger Smart is very experienced. He's a man of dogged determination, who has a strong work ethic and is always polite but firm.

She is an outstanding junior who is outstandingly clever and a pleasure to work with.

She is excellent.

He is very bright and hard-working. He possesses good judgement.

Ben FitzGerald KC is an exceptional criminal barrister. He provides impeccable judgement, is extremely bright and sees tactically the best route for a case.

She is good and hard-working.

Ruth is a strong all-rounder and always assists and advises where needed from start to finish. She is much liked by clients.

She has been forensic in her approach, cutting to the core of the most important elements. Her knowledge of the cases she is instructed on is encyclopaedic.

Ruth Broadbent is incredibly hard-working, personable and enthusiastic. She is a real team player.