Callum Munday
- CPS Advocate Panel: Level 3
- South-Eastern Circuit
- Criminal Bar Association
- Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
- Vulnerable Witness Training, Inner Temple
- Bar Professional Training Course, BPP London
- MA (Cantab), Law, University of Cambridge
Instructing Callum Munday
To instruct Callum or for any further information please contact our clerks on +44 (0)20 7440 8888 or clerks@2br.co.uk.
Callum has a busy criminal practice, prosecuting and defending the most serious offences. He has particular experience as a jury advocate and appears in the Crown Court on a daily basis, along with the magistrates’ courts and Youth Court. Callum is often instructed in cases involving multiple defendants, youth defendants, and defendants with learning and developmental difficulties.
Appearing both as a junior alone and led junior, Callum deals with cases involving allegations across the whole spectrum of criminal law. Callum has been instructed to represent clients charged with murder, attempted murder, serious violence, large-scale drug importation and dealing, complex fraud, serious sexual offences, and human trafficking. He also has significant experience dealing with road traffic offences, including those involving death and serious injury.
Alongside his criminal work, Callum has a strong regulatory practice and is experienced conducting contested fitness to practise hearings before the NMC, GDC, GPhC, and the HCPC. He has appeared successfully in contested regulatory proceedings in the High Court.
Callum also regularly practises before Courts Martial, representing members of the Armed Services, as well as acting in cases of police misconduct.
Callum has previously been instructed as disclosure counsel by the Serious Fraud Office, and has experience reviewing voluminous material in public inquiries. Callum was also instructed as part of the high-profile review of convictions of Post Office workers involving the ‘Horizon’ computer system.
Callum is Direct Access qualified. If you would like to instruct him on a Direct Access basis, please contact the clerks.
Practice Areas
Callum is a Level 3 advocate for the Crown Prosecution Service and is regularly instructed to prosecute serious and complex cases across the South Eastern Circuit, including those with multiple defendants. He accepts instructions from local authorities and licensing bodies, such as Transport for London. Callum also has significant experience conducting appeals against sentence and conviction on behalf of prosecuting authorities.
In addition to his oral advocacy, Callum is regularly instructed by prosecuting bodies to provide written advices on charging, evidence, disclosure, and appeal.
Notable prosecution cases
Callum is an experienced defence advocate who regularly represents clients in trials in the Crown Court, as well as the magistrates’ courts and Youth Court. His practice covers the whole range of serious criminal offences from murder and serious violence, rape and serious sexual offences, large-scale drug dealing and importation, robbery, burglary, complex fraud, weapons offences, and serious driving offences.
In addition to his trial advocacy, Callum has a strong practice in contested appellate proceedings, having conducted a significant number of appeals against conviction and sentence. He also regularly represents clients in quasi-criminal matters including confiscation and other proceedings brought under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Alongside his oral advocacy, Callum is regularly instructed to provide written advices on evidence, sentence, and appeal to assist clients in navigating court proceedings, as well as in assessing the strengths of their cases.
Notable defence cases
R v X (Central Criminal Court)
Led junior. 13-year-old client charged with attempted murder of their adoptive mother.
R v K (Basildon Crown Court)
Led junior. Murder (householder defence). Client accused of killing a masked man who broke into his flat with others whilst carrying weapons.
R v HH (Maidstone Crown Court)
Junior alone. ‘Stranger rape’ case. Client charged with rape of a woman in an alleyway adjacent to Maidstone High Street in the early hours of the morning.
R v AK (Southwark Crown Court)
Led junior. Client was a former solicitor charged with conspiracy to defraud the Legal Aid Agency out of over £1.2million.
R v S (Chelmsford Crown Court)
Junior alone. Historic sexual offences. Client charged with multiple counts of child rape, having been the ‘babysitter’s boyfriend’ in the early 1990s.
R v KP (Basildon Crown Court)
Led junior. Client charged with conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs on an industrial scale throughout the South-East.
R v A (Southwark Crown Court)
Led junior. Human trafficking case. Client charged with conspiracy to facilitate the unlawful entry of non-EU migrants into the UK.
Callum has developed a strong practice in fitness to practise proceedings brought by professional regulatory bodies and is regularly instructed in cases before the NMC, GDC, HCPC, and GPhC, as well as other regulatory bodies. He has experience conducting contested substantive proceedings involving sensitive and serious allegations of misconduct, including serious sexual offences and serious dishonesty.
Callum also deals with a high volume of interim regulatory proceedings, including the imposition and review of conditions of practice and orders for suspension.
Notable professional discipline cases
GDC v RP
Registrant had pleaded guilty in criminal proceedings to attempted sexual communication with a child.
NMC v D
Registrant accused of providing sub-standard care to a baby who passed away shortly after being born.
GPhC v BG
Registrant alleged to have practised for years without indemnity insurance whilst issuing prescriptions to family members.
GDC v DS
Registrant accused of sexually assaulting patients who were sedated or under general anaesthetic.
Callum regularly represents and advises clients charged with serious road traffic offences including incidences of causing death and serious injury by dangerous and careless driving, as well as driving whilst under the influence of drink and drugs.
He has particular experience in cases where clients are at risk of being disqualified from driving, conducting ‘exceptional hardship’ and ‘special reasons’ hearings.
Notable road traffic cases
R v SK (Wood Green Crown Court)
Junior alone. Client charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving for crushing a cyclist against a bollard with his vehicle after a road rage incident.
R v NS (Snaresbrook Crown Court)
Junior alone. Client charged with causing serious injury by colliding head-on with a cyclist when turning into a side road.
R v IV (Swansea Crown Court)
Junior alone. Client charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving after having performed an overtake on double white lines around a blind bend, causing a head-on collision.
R v MT (Oxford Magistrates’ Court)
New Driver case. Client disqualified for only 14 days despite having driven at over double the speed limit.
R v BS and JE (Southend Youth Court)
Represented both BE and JE, acquitted of racing despite being filmed by an off-duty police officer repeatedly driving at speeds over 100mph along a stretch of dual carriageway.
Callum is regularly instructed to represent members of all three Armed Services before Courts Martial at both the Bulford and Catterick Military Court Centres.
Notable military law cases
R v X (Bulford)
Junior alone. Client was a special forces instructor charged with subjecting recruits to cruel and inhumane treatment.
R v X (Catterick)
Junior alone. Client was a Senior Aircraftsman in the RAF charged with gouging the eye of a colleague.
R v X (Bulford)
Junior alone. Client was a Corporal in the Royal Marines charged with sexually assaulting a colleague in their bed.
R v X (Bulford)
Junior alone. Client was a Royal Naval Police Officer charged with sexually assaulting a colleague whilst onboard.
