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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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| Katharine Spears |
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EDUCATION
BA (Hons) Law, University of Nottingham
Bar Vocational Course, Nottingham Law School
CALLED 2005 by Middle Temple |
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PRACTICE
Criminal defence practice with experience in the full spectrum of offences; both as junior alone and as lead junior.
Frequently instructed in cases of fraud, drugs, serious violence, sexual crime and trademark/regulatory infringement.
Regularly instructed in post-conviction financial proceedings, such as applications for confiscation and forfeiture, challenges against such orders in both the Crown and High Courts, contested applications for ‘behaviour orders, such as ASBOs and SOPOs, and prison adjudications.
Experienced in dealing with particularly vulnerable individuals including youths and those with mental health difficulties.
NOTABLE CASES
Higher Courts:
JK v R – Court of Appeal (Crim)
Instructed by the Registrar in Appeal proceedings in relation to appeal by way of section 13 of the AJA 1960.
R v IC – Administrative Court
Application for Certificate of Inadequacy and attendant legal argument about the correct forum for the challenge of a confiscation order made in the defendant’s absence under the CJA 1988. Successful legal argument and application.
SERIOUS VIOLENCE
R v TJ – Kingston CC
Section 18 attack with a metal bar and subsequent section 20 attack on cell mate with a wooden chair leg.
R v MW – Wood Green CC
Successful defence against allegation of knife point assault in context of neighbour dispute featuring visible slash wounds.
R v TW – Woolwich CC
Allegation of attack by long standing victim of domestic abuse on her ex-partner with a meat cleaver. Successful half time submission. Complainant bound over to keep the peace.
R v SL – Inner London CC
Defending youngest individual in multi-handed attempted robbery. Acquittal.
R v KR – Lewes CC
Multi-handed affray/multiple count ABH. Defending youngest individual in a large group brawl outside of a nightclub.
DRUGS SUPPLY
R v CA – Basildon CC
Multi-handed Supply class A and possession of firearms described by Crown as ‘deals on wheels’.
R v AM – Lewes CC
Junior Counsel led in large scale conspiracy to supply class A drugs and its accompanying violence across the East and West Sussex area.
R v AM – Southwark CC
Multi-handed brothel management, controlling prostitution and class A drugs supply in Central London nightclub.
FRAUD
R v JK – Croydon CC
Junior alone on large scale conspiracies to defraud, handle stolen goods and to obtain property by deception after defendant absconded for over a year. Sentenced to equivalent of time spent in custody.
R v PM – Manchester MS CC
Multi-handed conspiracy to defraud insurance companies through staged car accidents.
SEXUAL CRIME
R v SH – Woolwich CC
Possession of large quantity of indecent images of children. Third conviction for offences of a similar nature. Suspended sentence order imposed. Contested SOPO application.
R v SB – Exeter CC
Allegation of sexual assault on cleaning staff whilst defendant on football tour.
R v RB – Southwark CC
Allegation of outraging public decency at film premiere of St Trinians 2.
TRADEMARK/REGULATORY
R v MA – Snaresbrook CC
Possession of large quantities of counterfeit DVDs in the course of a trade or business. Successful half time submission founded on legal challenge to Crown case on both the definition of ‘possession’ and possession ‘in the course of a trade or business’.
R v SL – Sutton MC
Trademark and Consumer Protection Regulations offences regarding counterfeit and dangerous toys. Protracted negotiations lead to no evidence being offered.
MEMBERSHIP/OTHER INFORMATION
• Liberty
• Amnesty International
• Criminal Bar Association
• Fluent French, conversational Italian and Spanish.
• Previously worked as a solicitors’ agent across the UK instructed to appear in the county court and High Court in various civil proceedings, including small claims trials, enforcement, landlord and tenant, bankruptcy petitions, before Circuit Judges in appeal proceedings and before the Masters in the High Court Chancery Division.
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