Barristers

Jonathan Davies

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Practise area and specialisations
Cases of interest

Called

1981

Appointments

Recorder of the Crown Court
Appointed to the CPS Advocate Panel at Level 4
Appointed as a specialist rape prosecutor

Practice Areas and Specialisations

Criminal law. Both prosecution and defence.

Jonathan is regularly instructed as a leading junior.

CPS Grade 4 Prosecutor and included in London "Rape List".

Education and Qualifications

LL.B (Hons) - London
Qualified to receive instructions through direct public access.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association
South Eastern Circuit

Languages

French

Cases of Interest

R v. Sahota and others - Reading Crown Court, September 2002 to January 2003. Conspiracy to handle stolen goods worth £7.5million. Leading junior, defence.

R v. Hales - Basildon Crown Court. Time estimate six months. Serious fraud. Leading junior, defence.

R v. Chauhan - Leicester Crown Court. £4 million VAT fraud. Leading junior, defence.

R v. Chinyoka - Central Criminal Court. Multiple rape with exceptional violence and cruelty. Two victims. Leading junior, prosecution.

R v. Petley - Guildford Crown Court. Multi-handed conspiracy to cultivate cannabis. Largest cannabis factory found in Surrey. Leading junior, prosecution.

R v. Davis - Guildford Crown Court. Neglect of elderly patient in care home. Cause of death given as pressure sores. Leading junior, prosecution.

R v. Wragg - Lewes Crown Court. Murder. Father who killed his terminally ill ten-year-old son. Considered by media as "mercy killing". Led junior, prosecution.

R v. Parratt and seven others - Guildford Crown Court. Affray. Leading junior, prosecution.

R v. Larmont - Kingston Crown Court. Armed robbery at Heathrow airport £90million. Led junior, defence.

R v. Dimmock - Guildford Crown Court. Incest father /daughter. Junior alone, prosecution.

R v. Bettle - Guildford Crown Court. Drugs case resulting in then largest Proceeds of Crime Act (PoCA) order yet in Surrey, prosecution.

R v. Blackburn - Central Criminal Court. Police officer who killed his wife in suicide pact. Led junior, prosecution.

R v. Whittington - Central Criminal Court. Murder. Resolved as manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, defence.

R v. Roberts. Rape by husband of wife throughout their marriage with divorce and remarriage in middle of campaign of rape, defence.

R v. Arnold. Police officer possessing indecent images of children, defence.

R v. Ball. Foster parent accused of sexual offences against girl in care, defence.

R v. Clarke and others - Winchester Crown Court. Conspiracy to supply class 'A' drugs, four-month trial. Leading junior, defence.

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