Mr Neil Griffin > Foundry Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
Foundry Chambers Offices
QUALITY HOUSE, 5-9 QUALITY COURT
CHANCERY LANE, LONDON
WC2A 1HP
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Mr Neil Griffin
Work Department
Foundry Chambers
Position
YEAR OF CALL 1996
Career
Neil Griffin is a specialist criminal advocate, with experience in prosecuting and defending a wide range of serious criminal offences, including murder and attempted murder, offences of serious violence, kidnapping and blackmail, firearms offences, sexual offences and drugs offences. He also has experience in high value fraud trials. He has appeared alone and as a leading junior in trials involving some of the most serious criminal offences.
He is also available to be instructed to appear as an advocate for both lay and professional clients in professional disciplinary and regulatory tribunal hearings.
Neil has regularly been instructed privately to represent clients appearing in the Magistrates’ Court accused of road traffic offences, minor offences of violence, including domestic violence and breaches of protective orders. Past clients have included sports personalities and high-wealth and some well-known individuals. He has also appeared in the Crown Court to represent clients accused of being drunk on an aircraft or endangering an aircraft.
He has defended companies and private individuals accused of breaches of Health & Safety and Fire Regulations, and also in private prosecutions brought against them.
He has also been instructed by local authorities, Royal Mail and OfCom.
Languages
French, Spanish, basic Italian and very basic Punjabi.
Memberships
Memberships
South Eastern Circuit (Committee member)
Surrey & South London Bar Mess (Isleworth Crown Court Representative)
Criminal Bar Association
Fraud Lawyers’ Association
Appointments
CPS Advocate Panel at Level 3
Gray’s Inn Advocacy Trainer
Other languages spoken
French, Spanish, basic Italian and very basic Punjabi.
Education
LL.B (Hons) – University College London (1991-95)
Universite d’Aix-Marseille III (1993-94)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Neil Griffin – Foundry Chambers ‘Neil is a fantastic advocate who holds attention in court. Judges listen to him. He is also very good with clients.’
In recent years Foundry Chambers has grown into ‘a superb set with quality barristers of all years of call‘. Alexandra Healy KC recently prosecuted 80-year-old John Apelgren, alleged to have strangled a sex worker to death in June 1974, with the case reopened after DNA samples were acquired from Apelgren following his arrest for assaulting his wife in 2019 – he was found guilty of manslaughter and indecent assault. Neil Griffin’s varied practice covers drugs, homicide, and sexual offences cases – he recently defended one of the individuals charged alongside Marius Gustavson, the self-styled “eunuch maker”. Warwick Tatford has been particularly active of late in sexual offences cases, especially on the prosecution side. He prosecuted in a trial concerning the assault, robbery, and rape of a teenager in a Greenwich bike shed, with the defendant ultimately convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison.