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John Price KC KC
Position
‘Extremely capable and a very skilled cross-examiner.’ Legal 500, 2015 : Crime
John Price QC both defends and prosecutes in all manner of serious criminal cases in courts throughout the country.
He has acquired over the years particular experience in the conduct of criminal cases in the field of civil aviation, often involving corporate defendants, including major airlines, charged with regulatory offences, relating, for example to the carriage by air of dangerous goods.
Since taking silk, he has appeared in a number of co-called cold-cases, including a case of murder from 1966 [R v David Burgess] and a retrial following the quashing of an acquittal by the Court of Appeal [R v Mark Weston].
John is regularly briefed on high profile historic sexual abuse cases involving public figures and public schools.
He is also counsel of choice for cases involving offences of Corporate Manslaughter and Gross Negligence Manslaughter [R v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Azeez & Cornish and R v Thomas and Rudling].
He appears regularly before special courts in the Court of Appeal, concerning appeals on cases of recognised public importance, for example: CPS v F [Abuse of process arising from delay] and R v H [sentencing in historic cases of sexual abuse].
Career
Called 1982; Inner Temple; junior (Midland and Oxford circuit) 1992-93; Recorder 2007; Silk 2009.
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Midland and Oxford Circuit (Former Junior to Circuit 1992).
Education
Oxford (BA Jurisprudence).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4John Price KC – 23ES ‘John has a complete command of the law. He is a superb advocate with an ability to manage multi-handed cases with ease. John is also a fierce and forensic cross-examiner. He is at the very top end of criminal silks: a go-to KC for top-end work.’
23ES is well-known as a ‘quality chambers with real strength in depth’ when it comes to general crime work, with both silks and juniors regularly involved in high-profile cases. Eloise Marshall KC, joint head of chambers alongside Kate Lumsdon KC, recently prosecuted Lawrence Jones, a successful tech entrepreneur convicted of raping and sexually assaulting three women between 1993 and 2013, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. In the last few years John Price KC has prosecuted in several historic murder trials, including the trial of a man, aged thirteen at the time of the offence, convicted of murdering six-year-old Rikki Neave in November 1994. ‘Confident advocate’ David Dainty offers expertise in sexual offences cases as well as cases involving serious violence against children.