Barristers Specialising
in Serious Crime:
- Oliver Blunt QC
- Sally O'Neill QC
- D. Anthony Evans QC
- Anton Lodge QC
- Jeremy Carter Manning QC
- Sonia Woodley QC
- John Charles Rees QC
- Paul Garlick QC
- Stephen Leslie QC
- Andrew Menary QC
- Philippa McAtasney QC
- Gordon Cole QC
- Stuart Rafferty QC
- Raymond Lewis
- Christopher Baur
- Hugh Griffiths
- Nigel May
- Gino Connor
- Lisa Matthews
- Stephen Winberg
- Michael Latham
- Keith Hadrill
- Sanderson Munro
- Philip Romans
- Roy Headlam
- Nicola Merrick
- Jon Swain
- Joseph Ganner
- John Carmichael
- David Brock
- Tim Devlin
- Allison Hunter
- Kathryn Hirst
- Charles Sherrard
- Terence Boulter
- Barry Gregory
- Charles Evans
- Chris Meredith
- Graeme Wilson
- Timothy Forster
- Martin Rutherford
- Andrew Henley
- Alexia Power
- Michelle Fawcett
- John Kearney
- Emma Smith
- Caroline Carberry
- Frida Hussain
- Amanda Hamilton
- Julian Winship
- Giles Cockings
- David Durose
- Laban Leake
- Stephen Moses
- Fer Chinner
- Susan Meek
- Richard Hearnden
- Nicholas Mather
- David Miller
- Sally Fudge
- Robert Garson
- Caroline Haughey
- Charlotte Yarrow
- Edith Norrman
- Natalie Sherborn
- Lucy Cartwright
- Anu Omideyi
- Ross Cohen
- Joel Smith
- Kemi Fapohunda
- Antony Dunkels
- Joanna McEgan
- Paul Spreadborough
- Muthupandi Ganesan
- Daniel Jameson
- Chloe Fordham
- Charlotte Powell
- Ben Gordon
- Lisa Freeman
- Craig Harris
- Benjamin Long
- Ali Tabari
- Nicholas Hearn
- Andrew Jordan
- Lisa Wilson
- Matthew Chidley
- John Charles Rees QC
- Muthupandi Ganesan
Serious Crime
Furnival Chambers’ members regularly appear in high-profile criminal cases, acting for both the Defence and the Prosecution.
By way of example, members appeared in:
- The Millennium Dome conspiracy
- The Mardi-Gras bombing conspiracy
- The prosecution of Princess Diana’s butler
- The murder of DC Stephen Oake
- The murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky
- Deep Cut
- R v Mohammed Dica
- The Tonbridge robbery
- The prosecution of senior judiciary
- The prosecution of the Prime Minister of Mauritius
- The murder of Toni-Ann Byfield
- Significant death row appeals
- High-profile Official Secrets Act trials
Furnival Chambers have been instructed in some of the largest and most complex terrorism cases in recent times; such as:
- The Fertiliser Bomb plot
- The series of ‘21/7’ bombing cases
- The Ricin conspiracy
- Almost every other major terrorist case awaiting trial
Members regularly appear in the Privy Council, House of Lords, Court of Appeal and Divisional Court.
Many members undertake high profile work on behalf of:
- The Assets Recovery Agency
- H.M. Revenue and Customs
- The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) / DTI
- The Serious Fraud Office
- The Department of Works & Pensions
- The Crown Prosecution Service
Chambers also act on behalf of respondents in cases involving these authorities.
Members regularly conduct cases in theCommonwealth and especially in Caribbean jurisdictions.
Chambers & Partners (2008) says
“…Furnival Chambers is a set that homes in on asset forfeiture and confiscation, extradition and terrorism matters. It also has a strong general criminal capability and numbers within its ranks the "frighteningly clever” Oliver Blunt QC. He is “a magnetic presence in court” who has defended a series of murders in the past year and also acted in the trial of the 21/7 London bombing attempts.
Sally O’Neil QC and Stephen Leslie QC are also recommended in Chambers & Partners 2008 as leading Silks in crime
Jon Swain and Giles Cockings are recommended in Chambers & Partners 2008 as leading juniors in crime
Legal 500 (2008/2009) says
"...Furnival Chambers ... is strong across criminal law. Oliver Blunt QC is ‘enormously in demand’. In 2007 he was involved in R v Butt, an eight-handed double murder, and R v Sherif, relating to the attempted 21/7 London bombings.
Contact
The Serious Crime clerking team is led by Stephen Ball and Joel Mason