Stephen Moses

Year of Call: 1997

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Health & Safety, Inquests & Public Inquiries

“Stephen Moses is a class act” according to senior members of the judiciary. “He steps effortlessly into his Leaders’ shoes whenever called upon. He has developed a first class criminal practice”.

Stephen is regularly instructed as a led junior on large scale and high profile cases at the Central Criminal Court and beyond. He has conducted trials of murder, armed robbery, human trafficking, large scale drug importations, serious fraud, money laundering, rape and other sexual offences.

He has also appeared in recent years as a leading junior in matters of attempted murder, serious and organised violence, large scale fraud, complex money laundering and drugs conspiracies.   

Amongst his impressive catalogue of high profile cases are a £62 million cocaine importation, successful defence of the famed “Hard Bastard” Victor DARK, the much heralded attempted theft mid flight of £1.5 million whilst endangering the safety of an aircraft, several “gang land” murders, the “Mastermind” in the much publicised conspiracy to rob Securitas in Tonbridge of £53 million - the largest cash robbery in history and the  murder of Harrods Shop Assistant, Egeli RASTA (“Jogger in the Park”).

Stephen is presently defending the first defendant in the landmark first “judge alone” trial before Mr Justice Treacy – the £1.75 million robbery at Menzies Warehouse, Heathrow Airport. This case follows two 6 month trials before HHJ Roberts Q.C. and a jury at the Central Criminal Court in 2007 and 2008.

Further, he has regularly appeared successfully on appeals against both conviction and/or sentence in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and has often been instructed on criminal appeals to advise on the merits of “old” convictions where there is “new evidence”.

Stephen is a member of the South Eastern Circuit and the Criminal Bar Association. He is a Pupil Supervisor and Advocacy Trainer at Gray’s Inn.