Richard Christie KC
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 3 : Crime
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Provided by Richard Christie KC
Practice Areas
Serious fraud, murder and cases requiring substantial client care. Successfully defended in historic axe murder of Private Eye Daniel Morgan: linked to phone-hacking, Panorama, C4 – “Murder in the Car Park” and the longest pre-trial legal argument in English Criminal Law. Prosecuted £multi-million ten-handed excise fraud – featured on ITV “Fiddles, Cheats and Scams”. Both SFO panels of approved KCs. Rough-justice cases and J.R. for CCRC. Trained with Touche Ross, now Deloitte, Joint Head of Chambers, Recorder and Deputy Taxing Master.
Cases of note: (P = prosecution)
• Operation Campaign (£44 million MTIC - P).
• Operation Effare (serious fraud/arson trial - P).
• Operation Mazurka (£35m MTIC) (P).
• Tambengwa (Murder and sexual offences on child) (P)
• Small (Historic sexual offences. Conviction quashed. Retrial – acquitted)
• Mahmood (Sexual offences - conviction (quashed) – re-trial – 2nd appeal: acquitted)
• Hale (Murder – missing victim. “Only murder case lost by Sky Crime’s “Real
Manhunter”: acquitted)
• Briggs (£1 billion Cocaine importation -acquitted)
• Gill (£38m carbon credit fraud)
• Dudley (Gross-negligence manslaughter - acquitted)
• Bensley (£24m MTIC fraud - acquitted)
• Bashardost (7 handed murder – acquitted)
• Iftinca (6 handed murder – acquitted)
• Rafiq (First-ever prosecution of end user of trafficked labour)
• Garrod (Manslaughter, robbery with firearms- Acquitted).
• Karim (1.2 million-page immigration and revenue fraud)
• White (Drugs’ murder - C4’S “24 hours in police Custody” - P)
• R (Barrister - conspiracy to defraud – 4 trials – acquitted on each)