Stuart Stevens

Call:	1970
Inn:	Inner
Expertise:	Common Law (Leader) Crime White Collar Fraud
Telephone:	0207 242 6060
Experience	Called in 1970, and a member of both Inner Temple and Grays Inn, Stuart Stevens has established himself as a leading practitioner in criminal law and general common law and is head of Holborn Chambers. He has served on the Bar Council Race Relations Committee and has lead substantial criminal cases especially business crime. Other notable cases include the Brinks-Mat trial and Daqir (Iraqi nuclear triggers).
Recent Cases	R v Mathayaparan and Others at the Central Criminal Court (2005/2006). This was a gangland double murder involving substantial mobile phone cell site evidence. The defendant represented by Mr Stevens and his junior was acquitted on both murders on submissions. Mr Stevens continues to conduct substantial criminal matters as a junior leader.
Selection of Reported Cases	Re A Solicitor Div Ct QBD January 1982 Law Soc Gazette Meaning of unbefitting conduct *R v Isleworth Crown Court ex parte* Commissioners of Customs & Excise Div Ct QBD 1991 Crim LR 859** Bail subject to Judicial Review R v Blake and others 1991 CLR 119 Sections 76 and 78 Pace. Hill Samuel Fraud *R v Newington (Ct of App) The Times* 27th Feb 90** Meaning of ill-treatment under Mental Health Act *R v Delaney (Ct of App) The Times* 30th Aug 88** Breaches of PACE *Day and Another v Grant / R v Manchester Crown Court ex parte* William Div Ct 1987 3 All ER** Meaning of ‘Criminal cause or matter’ R v Alexander Grant (Ct of App) 82 Crim App Rep 234 Difference between common law and statutory conspiracies R v Tomsett (Ct of App) 1985 Crim LR 369 Jurisdiction in international conspiracy *R v Harman and others (Ct of App) The Times* 21st Feb 84** Documents wrongly admitted in re-examination by prosecution Dyson Holdings & Fox (Ct of App) 1976 QB 503Common law wife can inherit statutory tenancy

Call:

1970

Inn:

Inner

Expertise:

Common Law (Leader)

Crime

White Collar Fraud

Telephone:

0207 242 6060

Experience

Called in 1970, and a member of both Inner Temple and Grays Inn, Stuart Stevens has established himself as a leading practitioner in criminal law and general common law and is head of Holborn Chambers. He has served on the Bar Council Race Relations Committee and has lead substantial criminal cases especially business crime. Other notable cases include the Brinks-Mat trial and Daqir (Iraqi nuclear triggers).

Recent Cases

R v Mathayaparan and Others at the Central Criminal Court (2005/2006).

This was a gangland double murder involving substantial mobile phone cell site evidence. The defendant represented by Mr Stevens and his junior was acquitted on both murders on submissions.

Mr Stevens continues to conduct substantial criminal matters as a junior leader.

Selection of Reported Cases

Re A Solicitor Div Ct QBD January 1982 Law Soc Gazette

Meaning of unbefitting conduct

R v Isleworth Crown Court ex parte Commissioners of Customs & Excise Div Ct QBD 1991 Crim LR 859

Bail subject to Judicial Review

R v Blake and others 1991 CLR 119

Sections 76 and 78 Pace. Hill Samuel Fraud

R v Newington (Ct of App) The Times 27th Feb 90

Meaning of ill-treatment under Mental Health Act

R v Delaney (Ct of App) The Times 30th Aug 88

Breaches of PACE

Day and Another v Grant / R v Manchester Crown Court ex parte William Div Ct 1987 3 All ER

Meaning of ‘Criminal cause or matter’

R v Alexander Grant (Ct of App) 82 Crim App Rep 234

Difference between common law and statutory conspiracies

R v Tomsett (Ct of App) 1985 Crim LR 369

Jurisdiction in international conspiracy

R v Harman and others (Ct of App) The Times 21st Feb 84

Documents wrongly admitted in re-examination by prosecution

Dyson Holdings & Fox (Ct of App) 1976 QB 503Common law wife can inherit statutory tenancy