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9 Carmelite Street
London EC4Y 0DR
Tel: 020 7936 6300
Fax: 020 7936 6301
Out of Hours Number:
07760 261 795
Email clerks team
LDE: 226
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| Douglas Hogg QC |
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Rt. Hon Douglas Hogg QC Viscount Hailsham
CALLED 1968 Lincoln's Inn
1990; appointed Queens Counsel.
1992; appointed a Privy Counsellor.
1999; made a Bencher of Lincolns Inn. |
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PRACTICE AND SPECIALITIES
Crime; involved in heavy leading work especially in homicide, rape, conspiracy, drug importation and serious fraud cases often in the London area and on the North eastern circuit.
BACKGROUND
Born 1945
Oxford. M.A. (Christ Church; scholar 1963-1966)
Journalist with the Sunday Express (1966)
Called Lincolns Inn (1968)
Libel lawyer with D Sketch, D Mail, Times and Sunday Times (1973-1976)
Special Constable; Metropolitan police (1973-1976)
Elected to Parliament (1979)
Member of Parliament (1979 – 2010).
Government Whip (1983-1984)
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Office (1986-1989); responsible for prisons, life sentence tariffs, the police, firearms, police appeals, elections, special hospitals, licensing laws.
Minister for Industry and Enterprise at the DTI (1989 – 1990); responsible for industrial and regional policy, aviation, telecommunications, R & D, space and science, shipbuilding and the automobile industries.
Minister of State at the Foreign Office (1990-1995); responsible for policy toward the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, arms control and related security matters;
Minister of Agriculture and a member of the Cabinet (1995-1997); as such was responsible for agricultural and rural policy and the fishing and food industries. As a member of the Council of Ministers in Europe represented British agricultural interests within the Common Agricultural policy.
Member of the House of Commons Justice Select Committee (2009-2010)
NOTABLE CASES
(in recent years always for the defence)
Murder/manslaughter/rape
R-v-Hobin
At the Manchester Crown Court (2009) secured the acquittal of a defendant who was charged with manslaughter. The defence was lack of intent and self defence.
R-v – Tarasenko
At the Leeds Crown Court (2008) a trial followed by a re-trial; murder by stabbing; the defence was lack of intent and the consequences of drink; conviction on the re-trial. A complicated trial because that the defendant spoke no English and had to give his evidence through an interpreter.
R-v-Morris
At the Birmingham Crown Court (2005) represented one of two defendants for murder involving death by shooting with a cross bow and the total dismemberment of the body of the victim and subsequent disposal around the country. The defendant pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of diminished responsibility. She elected not to give evidence and was convicted of murder.
R-v- Chantelle Day
In the Hull Crown Court (2003) secured the acquittal of the defendant who with others was charged with the murder by arson of a (wrongly) suspected child molester.
R-v-Ashley Hanson
In the Leeds Crown Court (2005); secured the defendant’s acquittal of murder. Issues included whether it was the defendant who struck the fatal blow.
R-v-Jose Manuel Caboz
Advising as to whether under the law of the Island of Jersey the defences of “diminished responsibility” and provocation had an application to the offence of attempted murder (2003)
R-v-Anthony O’Brien
At the Leeds Crown Court (2004); trial of mother and son for the murder of a fellow lodger; each defendant blaming the other; the case was especially difficult because throughout the trial the defendant required medical help to deal with his addiction to heroin which was available to him in prison.
R-v- Grundy
At the Leeds Crown Court (2003); on a submission of “no case” secured the acquittal of a brutal gang murder of a camper. The other defendants were convicted
R-v-Karen Hanson.
At the Leeds Crown Court (2001). The Defendant was charged with the murder of her two children, the alleged offences being separated by a number of years. The Crown accepted a plea to the infanticide of one of the children
R-v- Jan Toft
At the Hull Crown Court (2006) and on a submission of “no case” secured the acquittal of the defendant on the charge of attempted murder.
Re Harry White (deceased)
In the Belfast Coroners court (2006) represented the family of the deceased who was a serving soldier shot by other soldiers during a training exercise.
R-v- Jennifer Allwood
At the Hull Crown Court (2007) represented the defendant on a plea to the attempted murder of her father and secured a suspended sentence.
R-v-Darren Gregson
At the Leeds Crown Court (2005); the defendant was convicted of the murder of his stepfather; the case was complicated because the defendant said that he had no recollection of the events; the defence was “provocation” as described by witnesses and as set out in the interviews of the defendant; on appeal a verdict of manslaughter was substituted.
R-v-Rajeeb Ahmed and others
At the Old Bailey (2005) secured the acquittal of a defendant charged with attempted murder; the defence was that the defendant was not present and had no knowledge of the identity of the assailant.
R-v Glazer
In the Teeside Crown Court (1999) secured the acquittal of a defendant charged with the murder of his brother
R-v- Ross
At the Leeds Crown Court (2001); on a conviction of manslaughter when the defendant has assisted the deceased to inject himself with drugs; secured a suspended sentence
R-v-Deakin
In the Leeds Crown court (1999) conviction for murder. A complicated case in which the defendant with other members of his family murdered the deceased who had previously paid them to murder another person; very extensive “cell site” evidence.
R-v-Karim Joumni
At the Old Bailey (2006) secured the acquittal of the defendant on a charge of murder. The defence asserted “accident” and / or self defence.
R-v-Latham
At the Bradford Court (2005) a particularly brutal murder by beating of the defendant’s girlfriend which attracted a minimum term of 20 years but reduced on appeal to 18 years as insufficient credit had been given for the plea of guilty.
R-v-Done
At the Leeds Crown Court (2006) represented a defendant almost exclusively on DNA evidence in respect of a rape committed many years previously by a man of otherwise good character. Complicated issues relating to the DNA evidence.
R-v-Fraser
In the Liverpool Crown Court (1999); the trial of a teacher for alleged rape of former pupils allegedly committed over 20 years prior to the trial; application to stay the trial on the grounds that a fair trial was impossible; first trial was stopped because of the non disclosure by the Crown of material evidence; a second trial did not proceed because the defendant was terminally ill with cancer.
R-v-Chizoba Miller
At the Old Bailey (2004) trial of a Defendant charged with a number of rapes committed at the homes of his alleged victims; in respect of one of the rapes the defence was that the sexual intercourse was consensual and in relation to the others it was denied that the defendant was the rapist
R-v-Jason Hemingway
At The Leeds Crown Court (2006) trial of a defendant charged with the rape, buggery and robbery of the victim, the alleged offence being committed some 14 years prior to the trial; there was an application for a stay on the grounds of destruction of material evidence.
R-v-Javed Akhter
At the Wolverhampton Crown Court (2004); trial of a defendant who was a teacher charged with the rape and indecent assault on the complainant who was then 11 years of age. The offences were alleged to have been committed over an extended period; the defendant asserted that the allegations were false and that insofar as he did have a relationship with the complainant it was at her instigation;
R-v-Catherine Tye
At the Old Bailey (2004) secured the acquittal of the defendant was charged with conspiracy to murder together with the possession of firearms and ammunition;
Fraud and other financial offences
R-v-Russell Jones
At the Nottingham Crown Court (2001); secured the acquittal on an alleged large scale conspiracy to defraud investors through the sale of ostriches;
R –v- Metzler
At the Peterborough Crown Court (2009); substantial fraud by an accountant complicated abuse of process arguments.
R-v-Azam
At the Kingston Crown Court (2008); defeated a very extensive “Proceeds of Crime” application involving over 3000 transactions mostly in cash and amounting to over a million and a half pounds.
R v Iktalat and Frigieri; Woolwich Crown Court
At the Woolwich Crown Court (2009) represented a defendant in a trial which lasted more than 70 days involving many defendants on a charge of conspiracy to launder money which the Crown alleged involved over £90 million pounds and was allegedly the product of drugs; the Crown appealed the sentence of 12 years on the grounds of undue leniency.
R-v-Yasser Ali
At the Kingston Crown Court (2008) On a submission of no case secured the acquittal of the Defendant who with others was charged with three counts of “evading the prohibition on the unauthorised use of a trade mark in relation to goods under section 92 (1) (b) of the Trade Marks Act 1994.
R-v-Trevor Guest
At the Stoke on Trent Crown Court (2002) secured a suspended sentence for a defendant on an extremely complicated charge of conspiracy to defraud involving many defendants and following a trial lasting 44 days.
Conspiracies and offences involving misconduct in public office
R-v- Azam
At the Kingston Crown Court (2007); secured the acquittal of a former police officer on a charge of misconduct in his office; the allegation being that he disclosed confidential information held on police computers to criminals.
R-v-Fiaz Choudry and others
At the Bradford Crown Court (2006); represented the defendant on a charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by arranging false evidence following an attempted murder. The sentence was subsequently reduced on appeal.
R-v-Sarai and others
At the Reading Crown Court (2007) represented a defendant in a serious conspiracy to import and supply large quantities of cannabis from Holland; consequential POCA proceedings; the defendant’s case was that he was a wholly innocent bystander
R-v-Kashif Tahir and others
In the Leeds Crown Court (2008) represented the defendant on a charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by the payment of money to procure false evidence.
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