Chambers of Orlando Pownall QC
TEMPLE, LONDON, EC4Y 7BH, ENGLAND
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Peter Wright QC
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Position
Barrister in crime general and crime corporate, particularly serious gang-related homicide, extortion and drug dealing; cases of interest: R v Shipman (GP, serial murderer); R v Gordon Mutch (DCI, Special Branch, head of Irish Desk and SIO, Manchester bombing charged with criminal misconduct; R v Massey and R v Lydiate and Others (gangland conspiracies to murder); R v O’Neil (gangland contract killing); Operation Waddington and Operation Torch (multi-million pound Class A drug conspiracies); R v Davies (gangland contract killing); R v Akinmurele (serial murderer); R v Thai Anh Nahm (Triad gang triple murder); R v Keung and others (Triad protection racketeering). Peter Wright was Senior Treasury Council between 2006 and 2010, in which capacity he led prosecutions including R v Wright ('Suffolk Strangler'); R v Ali & ors (Heathrow Airport liquid bomb plot); R v Ali Dizaei (Metropolitan Police Commander – misconduct in public office); R v Chaytor & ors (MP expenses cases).
Career
Called 1981; Inner Temple; QC 1999; Recorder 2001.
Member
Senior Treasury Counsel 2006; Criminal Bar Association.
Leisure
Sport, travel.
Practice Areas
Crime - corporate; Crime - general
