Jeremy Barton successfully appeals the conviction of a police officer
1st Apr 2016
Jeremy Barton successfully appealed the conviction of a police officer accused of possessing indecent images of a child. In the lower court sitting at Leeds, the officer was found to posses images...
Chris Smith and Peter Byrne secure 11 convictions at the Bradford Crown Court
1st Apr 2016
Chris Smith and Peter Byrne were instructed by the Complex Crime Unit in Leeds to prosecute a series of trials known as 'Operation Bellum' between January 2015 and March 2016. Chris led Peter in...
Jason Pitter QC and Dapinder Singh at Sheffield Crown Court
15th Mar 2016
Jason Pitter QC leading Dapinder Singh secured an acquittal of murder in joint enterprise attack in one of the first cases following the Supreme Court decision in Jogee. The case attracted significant...
Back to back wins for Nicholas de la Poer in the High Court
14th Mar 2016
Following on from success when representing a youth who was sentenced to twice that an adult could receive and having changed the law in the process, the High Court has just handed down a judgment in...
Amanda Rippon appointed Circuit Judge
2nd Mar 2016
New Park Court Chambers is delighted to announce the appointment to the Circuit Bench of Amanda Rippon. H H Judge Rippon has spent the past 13 years in Newcastle and is widely respected by the...
Nicholas de la Poer secures quashing of unlawful sentence in a case with national implications for sentencing of youths
25th Feb 2016
On 24 February 2016, Nicholas de la Poer appeared before a divisional court of the High Court, instructed by Keith Allen of ABR Solicitors, Leeds, in an appeal by way of case stated. The case related...
Paul Greaney QC, Jason Pitter QC and Elyas Patel appear in the first corporate manslaughter case under the new Definitive Guideline
5th Feb 2016
On 3rd December 2015, Sherwood Rise Limited (the owner and operator of a care home in Nottingham) pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter in respect of the death of an elderly resident who had been...
Jeremy Barton successfully defends a Kurdish national charged with defrauding HMRC of the duty on cigarettes
20th Jan 2016
The defendant was one of only two men acquitted at Birmingham Crown Court after an eight day trial. The evidence included complex telephone and surveillance material which purported to show the...
Robert Smith QC and Matthew Donkin at Newcastle Crown Court
18th Dec 2015
Robert Smith QC, leading Matthew Donkin, has successfully prosecuted a mother and her partner, both of whom were convicted of Causing or Allowing the Death of a Child. Victoria Burke and Paul...
Jeremy Barton successfully defends a man at Leeds Crown Court charged with kidnap
16th Dec 2015
The defendant in this case was alleged to have attacked a lone female whilst in her car one afternoon in June. The trial issue was one of identification. After three days of evidence, he was acquitted...