Mr Callum Church > Chambers of Sara Lewis KC > Birmingham, England > Barrister Profile
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Mr Callum Church
Work Department
Crime
Position
Callum is a criminal practitioner with a practice significantly ahead of his year of call and has been ranked as a Tier 1 Rising Star for Crime (General & Fraud) in the Legal 500 UK Bar Rankings 2024.
His combination of in-depth research, persuasive manner before juries, and a conference style which puts Defendants at ease makes him a sought-after counsel.
Beyond the Crown Court, Callum has a particular expertise in Road Traffic Law and is regularly instructed to defend individuals on a private basis.
Callum undertakes a wide range of regulatory matters in the Magistrates Court, Crown Court, and professional tribunals, acting for both private prosecutors and those accused.
Career
CPS Panel Advocate – Grade 2
Memberships
Middle Temple
Midland Circuit
Education
Downing College, University of Cambridge (Law BA)
BPTC – London Holborn (Very Competent)
LLM Legal Barrister (Distinction)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1Callum Church – St Philips Chambers ‘Callum is thorough, patient and extremely well-prepared. He is unflappable in difficult situations.’
St Philips Chambers is ‘one of the best set in the West Midlands’, which ‘offers a high-quality service’ across the criminal law space. The team has significant expertise across a wide range of criminal matters, including drug conspiracies, fraud, murder, sexual offences and regulatory crime. Richard Atkins KC is highly adept at handling serious crime and murder matters – he prosecuted a woman for stabbing her mother to death. Jonathan Barker is regularly involved in multi-handed murder cases and currently represented a TikTok personality accused of being part of a group who murdered two men by forcing their cars off the A46 – the prosecution’s case is that the deceased were blackmailing the defendants. Jennifer Josephs successfully appealed a sentence for attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity (the “child” being an undercover police officer posing as one) – at issue was how to approach sentencing for a second similar offence when the law had changed between the first and second convictions. In September 2022, Andrew Smith KC, as was, was appointed as a circuit judge, and in July 2023 Marcus Harry and William Douglas-Jones joined from St Ives Chambers, and in October Rebecca Wade KC, Amy Jackson, Sara Wyeth and Callum Church followed.