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Barnabas Branston

020 7410 2000 barney.branston@5essex.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Barney specialises in police law, inquests, police discipline, personal injury and health and safety defence.

Position

Barney acts for a range of clients including police forces across England and Wales and other organisations in the public and private sector. He is currently representing Serco Home Affairs, Devon and Cornwall Police, West Midlands Police, Dyfed Powys Police and South Wales Police on a variety of matters.

Barney represented West Midlands Police in the inquest into the shooting of Trevor Smith and continues to represent Serco Home Affairs in inquests into the deaths of prisoners in custody. He is currently representing Dyfed Powys Police in the inquest into the death of Kianna Patton, Staffordshire Police in the inquest into the death of Joshua Ball and Thames Valley Police in the inquest into the death of Neal Saunders. He also continues to represent various police forces in misconduct proceedings on behalf of the Appropriate Authority.

Career

Barney maintains a near-fluent proficiency in French since graduating from Oxford University and continues to use his language skills at every opportunity. He travelled fairly widely in the Army, notably as an Aide de Camp to a British Army General and to an American General visiting the UK before leaving the Army to undertake the Graduate Diploma in Law. As a pupil and junior tenant at 5 Essex Chambers he learned valuable courtroom experience from his early years at the criminal bar before focussing exclusively on his civil practice.

Please visit the 5 Essex Chambers website for Barney’s profile, which sets out full details of his practice including relevant work of note.  

Languages

French

Memberships

Barney is a member of ARDL and PIBA