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Crime

Our crime barristers enjoy an unrivalled reputation for providing advice and representation in criminal trials.

Recognised for in depth ability at all levels, 2BR’s service is highly specialised providing insightful advice to those accused of criminal offences together with outstanding advocacy at a criminal trial. Our barristers strive to ensure that the client is provided with the best possible service.

Members of Chambers are widely recognised as bringing an extraordinary breadth of experience to each case, and tailor that knowledge and meticulous preparation to the needs and demands of each client. Particular attention is paid when defending to:

  • identifying appropriate defences and preparing legal arguments;
  • ensuring compliance with the prosecution’s duty of disclosure;
  • first-class court room advocacy; and
  • taking all steps necessary to ensure that the client’s best interests are maximised.

Members have been instructed on behalf of both the prosecution and the defence in the following kinds of cases:

Members of Chambers have been instructed in most of the leading and celebrated criminal trials of the last twenty years including:

  • MP’s expenses scandal
  • The South Thanet by election trial
  • Rolf Harris
  • The Oxford grooming case
  • The Tottenham Turks murder
  • Phone hacking (Operations Elveden and Weeting)
  • The Rachel Nickell murder
  • The Stephen Lawrence murder
  • The Greenwich Dome Robbery
  • The Brixton Nail Bomber
  • The Kenneth Noye murder

Get in touch

For further information and enquiries please contact our clerks team.

Call: +44 (0)20 7440 8888
Email: clerks@2br.co.uk

Clerk: Paul Rodgers
Telephone: +44 (0)7894 125 434
Email: Click here


Latest Crime news and publications

News 20th May 2025

Dean George KC secures murder acquittal for Sikh Afghan Man who defended his family amid a background of police failures

Dean George KC’s client, a Sikh Afghan man who clear CCTV footage showed fatally stabbing another man 14 times, was...

News 13th May 2025

Sam Magee KC successfully defends terrorist conviction before the Supreme Court

NP appealed to the Supreme Court following her conviction and unsuccessful appeal before the Court of Appeal for...

Cases 6th May 2025

David Patience successfully acts for TfL in High Court Case Stated Appeal

David Patience represented the successful Respondent, Transport for London (TfL), in the recent High Court case stated...

Blog 9th Jan 2025

UK Sanctions against people smuggling gangs: legal analysis. By Hugo Lodge.

Introduction David Lammy’s key promise on 9 January 2025 was that, ‘the UK would be the first country in the...

Cases 20th Dec 2024

Nick Bonehill successfully defends sexual assaults

Nick Bonehill, instructed by Aqsa Farooq from JSP solicitors, successfully defended a client accused of sexual...

News 17th Dec 2024

2BR members successful in CPS gradings

Chambers warmly congratulates 6 of its members who have been successful in obtaining improved gradings in the recent...

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