We recognise that clients demand specialist knowledge from barristers who are technically astute, excellent in court and aware of wider commercial issues and personable.
Members of the criminal barrister team are instructed by both defence solicitors and the Crown Prosecution Service (including the Complex Casework Unit). Many of the cases undertaken by the team attract national media coverage.
Members of the team have appeared in key Court of Appeal cases dealing with important aspects of murder and manslaughter from the anonymity of witnesses to the availability of partial defences to murder. The team also possesses significant collective experience of homicides involving the deaths of young children and babies.
Whatever the background to the case, members of the team provide strong, focused advocacy in court together with first-rate legal knowledge. The advice can be provided from the very earliest stages of a case. The team is committed to providing the highest level of service and representation in these demanding cases.
Andrew Rourke, Dan Shriane, Su Turner Gilbert, Dan Zouch and Freya Snipe.
Darron Whitehead and Clare Rennie were instructed by Jonas Roy Bloom to defend SR at trial for the offence of kidnap. On 29 December 2025, four masked men carried out...
Harinderpal Dhami appeared as prosecution counsel in the trial of a care home manager convicted of six counts of fraud at Worcester Crown Court, following a five-day trial. The complainant,...
On Monday (the 29th June 2026) The Crime and Policing Act 2026 (Commencement No.1 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2026 commencement order came into effect. Of importance, there are no applicable...
In the early hours of 23 June 2025, Robert Alexander stabbed his wife at least 77 times in their home in Tamworth. Following the attack, Alexander called the police, told...
Tom Walkling KC, leading William Douglas-Jones, defended James Ritchie who was charged with murder and attempted murder. Ritchie had wounded the necks of Darren Pearson and Anthony Wilson using a...
Jonathan Barker, leading Catherine Ravenscroft, prosecuted Operation Citrino 2 and Operation Quote. The case concerned two conspiracies to discharge firearms at residential properties in October 2024. The first conspiracy culminated...
The body of the deceased, Darren Round, had been spotted in the canal in Kings Norton on 15th February 2020. The police investigation to track down the killer lasted 5...
Denise Breen-Lawton KC defended a successful business man in his thirties at Sheffield Crown Court last week, against allegations of rape and sexual assault dating back almost 10 years. The...
We are pleased to announce that Gary Bell KC has joined the Criminal Group at St Philips Chambers. For more than three decades he has been instructed by solicitors across...
St Philips Chambers is pleased to confirm that Peter Haynes KC has been appointed lead defence counsel for Rodrigo Duterte, the former President of the Philippines, in proceedings before the...
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