9BR Chambers
Barristers
Justin Hugheston-Roberts
- Phone020 7489 2727
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.9brchambers.co.uk
Position
Justin is a highly experienced practitioner, a seasoned jury trial advocate and formidable opponent. He is also a direct access barrister and regularly acts as a ‘leading junior’ in defence cases.
He was admitted as a solicitor in 1986.
Background and Expertise
Justin’s case experience includes multi-million pound frauds; very large drug importations; murders; rapes and other serious sexual assaults; and other offences involving violence especially instances where fatalities occur.
His approach to his work is both meticulous and clinical.
Before being called to the Bar, Justin was a senior equity partner in a Legal 500 firm of solicitors and has practiced as a criminal defence lawyer for some 38 years.
He has a very detailed understanding as how to run a case.
His practice covers all criminal courts across England and Wales, and he is regularly involved in defending high-profile cases.
He was admitted as a Associate Writer to the Signet of Scotland and is still a member of the Law Society of Northern Ireland.
Justin was one of the first solicitor-advocates to be appointed and was also one of the first to be instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to prosecute in the Crown Court.
He is a direct access barrister and also has qualifications to enable him to act in police stations as a duty solicitor holding a dual capacity practising certificate.
A former member of the Secretary of State's standing committee for the review of military law, and appears for the defence in courts martial wherever UK troops are stationed.
He is also president of 'Forces Law', the national organisation that provides assistance and representation to service personnel and their families.
Justin is a signatory on the Armed Forces Covenant.
He is still a member of one of the six companies of the Sovereigns Warranted Body Guards and participates in State Ceremonial Occasions.
Justin sat for many years as a member of the Legal Aid Agency's complex case appeals committee, and he undertook work as an independent cost adjudicator.
He has written articles on military law, appeared in training videos, and has advised on the production and scripting of feature films.
A freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of a City livery Company, he lives on the Welsh border spending his spare time with his horses and spaniels.