Jeremy Carter-Manning QC

Year of Call: 1975

Queen's Counsel: 1993

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Regulation/Compliance, Health & Safety, Police Disciplinary, Courts Martial, Inquests & Public Inquiries

Recent  Important Cases

Defending in the Newcastle murder and police shooting trial, defending a solicitor indicted for bankruptcy fraud offences in a London Crown Court and prosecuting the (then) largest police seizure of imported class A drugs have followed his successful defence of one accused in the Iraq War Crimes Court Martial. Jeremy advised a potential defendant in the "Cash for Honours" bribery investigation, appeared in seven figure restraint proceedings representing the Crown in the High Court, and defended a company director in a seven figure Revenue fraud. Large company Health and Safety/Environmental Law defences, a twenty-plus count indictment involving multiple rape and judicial review (an additional specialist area) in police discipline have all been part of his practice. Before those cases, two months at Worcester for the first defendant in a cigarette importation fraud worth over £1 million. In Birmingham the defence of a director of another company involved in a fraud which was said to have resulted in the liquidation of Ciro Citterio plc.

Jeremy has considerable experience in fraud and white collar crime. In silk, with regulatory work this has been his main area of practice.. Many of the crimes, particularly those involving VAT or taxation have an international aspect. For example, in recent years, he has defended money laundering counts involving Bureau de Change in the then largest cigarette importation trial - a case involving cross examination of a member of the board of Customs and Excise. He has defended (successfully) a million pound VAT fraud which had money laundering and false accounting as its centre and appeared (again successfully defending) in a fraud involving the misclassification of eggs from England and from abroad. In the administrative court he has appeared (successfully) in a case involving almost solely the true construction of money laundering legislation as it related to the facts of the case. On paper he has advised jointly with a revenue silk on whether a cross boarder proposed scheme to avoid tax amounted under UK legislation to money laundering.

He appears in all types of criminal case. Throughout his 18 years in silk, he has defended in murder, manslaughter terrorism and serial rape cases. More recent examples include (successfully) a murder defence based on medical causation, the defence (unsuccessfully) of a 15 year old in a revenge firearms killing and (successfully) a defence of diminished responsibility for a woman who killed a visitor to her home when she was drunk. In addition, the group killing of a man was successfully defended (manslaughter) on the basis of lack of knowledge and intent and 25 years of multiple rape was defended, albeit for the most part unsuccessfully He has also appeared to argue unfitness to plead amongst many other issues which arise in such cases. He defended (unsuccessfully) in the first prosecution for over 100 years for causing grievous bodily harm by passing the HIV virus during sexual intercourse..

In appearances before the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal he has appeared for the solicitors concerned and in Police Disciplinary proceedings for an individual police officer whose (eventually successful defence) required appearances over 6 years at first instance, on appeal, in the High Court and then at first instance again. Various judicial review proceedings and advice have involved matters as various as crime in international air space to illegal fishing in private water. Much previously he advised Lord Cullen on English firearms law following the Dunblane massacre and gave written evidence to the Public Enquiry report into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School (1996).

Appointments

Appointed a Recorder in 1993, he is entitled to sit in Crown Court Crime and County Court Civil and Family work.

Former Director of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (1999 - 2005) (a Bar Council appointment to a Home Office funded body designed to register and regulate expert witnesses in court)

Master of the Bench of Middle Temple (since 2002)

A former Chairman of the Mental Health Review Tribunal appointed to preside over restricted cases

Former Chairman of the Surrey and South London Bar Mess (a Division of the South Eastern Circuit of the Bar)

Lately a member of the committee of the South Eastern Circuit and liaison committee chairman for Surrey.

Reported Cases

R v. Dica - HIV positive man passing on the virus

R v. Early and others [2003] 1 Cr App R 19 - London City Bond Customs and Excise fraud appeal

R v. W (Dennis) - a rape conviction appeal (21st June 2002)

R v. Luminar Leisure ex parte the Licensing Justices - a jurisdiction in costs appeal (11th March 2002)

R v. Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset ex parte Bird - a police discipline tribunal procedure appeal (10th July 2000)

R v. DPP ex parte Lee [1999] 2 All E.R. 737

R v. Met Stipendiary Magistrate ex parte J (on double translation of evidence (12th July 1999)

Westminster City Council v. Blenheim Leisure (Restaurants) Limited (The Times 24th February 1999)

R v. Sargent - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) 18th January 1999

R v. Norwich Magistrates Court ex parte Elliott - Crown Officer List 21st December 1998

R v. Warley Justice ex parte The Director of Public Prosecutions [1999] 1 W.L.R. 216

R v. Pearson and Others - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (1998)

Other

In his early years at the Bar, Jeremy lectured in banking law and associated subjects and (occasionally) in the law of contract at the University of London. He has (much more recently) lectured in criminal advocacy in London, Africa, the West Indies, Hong Kong and Malaysia. He has lectured on the role of the prosecutor in the Divisional Court and on the European Human Rights Legislation to a conference of lawyers organised by Sweet & Maxwell publishers. He now teaches advocacy to the students of the Middle Temple.