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)