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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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| Barry Kogan |
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EDUCATION
LL.B. (Hons.) University of Hull
CALLED 1973, Inner Temple |
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APPOINTMENTS
1998 Assistant Recorder
2000 Recorder
PRACTICE
I have specialized in criminal law throughout my career, having acted for the defence, often as Leading Counsel, in a wide variety of serious cases. These include murder (as Leading Counsel), other homicide cases (including death by dangerous driving), armed robbery, arson, kidnap, blackmail, drug supply and importation, people smuggling, firearms offences, fraud and money-laundering. I have very considerable experience of trials involving allegations of rape and other serious sexual crime (committed against both adults and young children). I have appeared in several internet pornography cases. I have also been briefed regularly in Court Martial cases.
NOTABLE CASES
R v Saundh & another - Leicester C.C
A father of a teenage girl was charged with the murder of her boyfriend, of whom he disapproved for racial reasons. He was acquitted, following my successful submission of no case to answer.
R v P(uttock) & another – C.C.C
I appeared as leading Counsel throughout the following proceedings: In 2007 a five-week trial took place in which the two defendants were charged with the murder, in 2000, of an elderly man; the case depended in part on facial mapping and DNA evidence. Although, after 7 days of deliberations, the defendants were convicted, their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2008, and a retrial ordered. That retrial was heard over an 8-week period in the Summer of 2009, with the jury unable to reach a verdict. A third trial was due to commence in June 2010, but on the opening day, the prosecution indicated for the first time, their willingness to accept a guilty plea to manslaughter from each defendants; such pleas were duly entered.
R v Green and others – Leicester C.C
This defendant, while acting as unofficial carer for a mentally and physically handicapped man, starved and beat him to death. Guilty plea.
R v Ali - Reading C.C
I appeared as leading counsel in this five week trial, for one of four men charged with the murder of an elderly man in his own home, following a failed burglary.
R v Harman - C.C.C
The defendant threw a brick from a motorway bridge, which pierced the windscreen of a passing lorry driver and killed him. The defendant, originally charged with murder, ultimately pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
R vDolman & others - Court Martial hearing, Kosovo
I represented one of three Paratroop corporals, alleged to have shot and murdered two armed men in Pristina, Kosovo. After a two-week preliminary enquiry, in which the soldiers had claimed to have been acting in self-defence, the Army Prosecuting Authority resolved not to charge the men with any offence.
R v Price – Guildford C.C
This defendant pleaded guilty to causing the deaths
by dangerous driving, of three men, while heavily under the influence of alcohol and drugs. He had stolen the car and taken the men (all strangers to him) for a ‘joy-ride’.
R v Decapet – C.C.C
The defendant pleaded guilty to the rape and attempted murder of a middle-aged lady, along the River Thames towpath. He had been sought by the police for 12 years before his arrest.
R v Rattray – Croydon C.C
The defendant was charged with concealing a corpse. He pleaded guilty to a lesser offence and received a non-custodial sentence.
R v Gibbard – Snaresbrook Crown Court
This defendant was acquitted of a number of rape offences against his partner, some of which had allegedly occurred whist she had been very ill in hospital.
R v Vasilyevs – Snaresbrook C.C
This defendant, aged 19, was acquitted of the sexual assault of two sisters aged 4 and 6 respectively.
R v Stewart - Isleworth C.C
My client was acquitted of the rape, false imprisonment, and assault of a former partner, in her own home.
R v Hernandez - Southwark C.C
This defendant was acquitted of the repeated rape of woman he had met earlier in the day.
R v Hedley – Guildford C.C
My client was acquitted of all charges of serious sexual misconduct against a woman with mental impairment (autism).
R v Robinson – Isleworth C.C
This defendant faced many counts of rape and other serious sexual offences against his two sisters-in-law, when they were aged 11-13, in the early 1980’s. On the day fixed for trial, he offered guilty pleas to one offence of indecent assault against each complainant; his offer was accepted, and he received a suspended sentence of imprisonment.
R v Durn & others - C.C.C
My client, the mother of three young children, was said to be the head of a paedophile ring, who systematically abused her children over a long period. She was eventually cleared of all charges, some by the jury (after a 6–week trial), and the remainder upon an appeal against conviction to the Court of Appeal.
R v SSejjuko - Snaresbrook C.C
My client was acquitted of raping a girl of 11, he having claimed that she had consented to sexual intercourse.
R v Mavrides & others - C.C.C
I represented a boy of 14, charged with 7 other teenagers, with the gang-rape of an Austrian tourist, on the bank of the canal at Kings Cross. Guilty plea.
R v Curtis – Guildford C.C.
My client, a young man with learning difficulties, shook his 3 _ month old daughter, leaving her blind and severely brain-damaged. He pleaded guilty to shaking the child, but was acquitted, after a jury trial, of doing so with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm. The prosecution had relied upon eight expert witnesses.
R v Karia - C.C.C
This was a 4-week trial of a man employed as a security guard at a major London hospital; he was said to have set a number of fires at the hospital, one of them forcing the urgent evacuation, at night, of 80 patients, and causing £3 million worth of damage.
R v Loh and others – Southwark C.C
My client was one of six Malaysians who pleaded guilty to smuggling women into the UK, for the purposes of prostitution; the largest case of its type.
R v Laszlo Budai & others - Croydon C.C
After a 6 week trial my client was acquitted of all charges relating to trafficking 5 Hungarian women into the UK and controlling their activities as prostitutes. One woman had claimed to have been kept prisoner in London for five months.
R v Eastwood & others - Winchester C.C
A 2-month trial of 4 men charged with conspiracy to defraud a number of old-age pensioners out of their life savings.
R v Willison & others - Winchester C.C
A conspiracy to steal motorcycles worth £4 million pounds; this was the largest case of its type.
R v Baker - Southwark C.C
As leading counsel I represented the main defendant in this large-scale ‘fresh-air invoicing’ fraud. Guilty plea.
R v Phillips - Bournemouth C.C.
This defendant was charged with forgery and a large fraud in relation to his activities as a company director.
R v Connors – Northampton C.C
The defendant pleaded guilty to money laundering offences from which he gained in excess of £1 million.
R v Wilson – Chichester C.C
The defendant was charged with a £1 million fraud against his bank.
R v “Miss X” & others – Guildford C.C
A widely-publicised 3-week trial of a 14 year-old schoolgirl, charged with stabbing a co-pupil in the eye with a pair of scissors, in the school grounds.
R v Wadham & Others – Winchester C.C
This was a much-publicised case involving several animal activists, charged with conspiracy to blackmail. The trial, which lasted three months, related to their efforts to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences.
FORTHCOMING CASES IN 2010-11 INCLUDE
R v M & Others – Derby C.C
My client is one of 17 defendants charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs and firearms offences.
R v H – St Albans C.C
The defendant is charged with the attempted murder (by strangulation) of his wife.
R v C & Others - Teesside C.C
My client is one of 11 defendants charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs
R v H – Court Martial
This defendant faces serious sexual offences (including attempted rape) against his step-daughter; she is now aged 14, but the offences are said to have commenced when she was aged about 8.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Criminal Bar Association
South Eastern Circuit (formerly co-opted committee member)
Central Criminal Court Bar Mess
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