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Provided by 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)”
Provided by Chambers
Richard Christie KC of 187 Chambers is a highly regarded criminal practitioner with extensive expertise acting in serious fraud cases. Christie has particular experience handling complex and high-profile work and is an approved member of the Serious Fraud Office panel for prosecution and confiscation.
Provided by Chambers
He leaves no stone unturned. He will fight for a client like his life depends on it. His pursuit for justice can only be admired.
Richard Christie is a superb KC. He is the most eloquent speaker, incredibly persuasive and often has the jury hanging on his every word. He is incredibly well respected by the judges and his peers.
He is a great barrister, who is focused and meticulous in his preparation.
Christie is extremely hard-working, tenacious and thorough. He goes through all the evidence in fine detail to get to the crux of the issue.
Richard is fantastic. He is approachable, pragmatic and intelligent.
He is extremely hard-working, tenacious and thorough.
He leaves no stone unturned. He will fight for a client like his life depends on it. His pursuit for justice can only be admired.
Richard Christie is a superb KC. He is the most eloquent speaker, incredibly persuasive and often has the jury hanging on his every word. He is incredibly well respected by the judges and his peers.
He is a great barrister, who is focused and meticulous in his preparation.
Christie is extremely hard-working, tenacious and thorough. He goes through all the evidence in fine detail to get to the crux of the issue.
Richard is fantastic. He is approachable, pragmatic and intelligent.
He is extremely hard-working, tenacious and thorough.