Richard Christie KC

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. Now featured in ITV’s “The Hack”. Both SFO panels of approved KCs. Rough-justice cases and J.R. for CCRC. Trained with Deloitte.

Cases of note: (P = prosecution)

• Op Campaign (£44 million MTIC - P).

• Op Mazurka (£35m MTIC) (P).

• Tambengwa (Murder and sexual offences on child) (P)

• S (Historic sexual offences. Conviction quashed. Retrial – acquitted)

• M (Sexual offences - conviction (quashed) – re-trial – 2nd appeal: acquitted)

• Hale (Murder – missing victim. Only murder case lost by Sky Crime’s “Real Manhunter”: acquitted)

• B (£1 billion Cocaine importation -acquitted)

• G (£38m carbon credit fraud)

• D (Gross-negligence manslaughter - acquitted)

• JB (£24m MTIC fraud - acquitted)

• B (7 handed murder – acquitted)

• I (6 handed murder – acquitted)

• Rafiq (First-ever prosecution of end user of trafficked labour)

• G (Manslaughter, robbery with firearms- Acquitted).

• K (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)

• S (Gang murder - rapper)

• MR (Timeshare fraud – 65m documents – 13 month trial)

• Op Salmon (£100m VAT and payroll fraud)”