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Mr Brian Williams

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Work Department

Criminal

Position

Prior to being called to the Bar, Brian Williams worked in the commercial and financial sector including two years with a large firm of commercial solicitors dealing with insolvency and commercial disputes.

After starting at the Bar with a mixed practice, he soon gravitated towards criminal work and for the last 25 years his main practice has been in criminal advocacy.

He has extensive experience in dealing with criminal cases of every type for both defence and prosecution.

He has been instructed in many cases involving historic sexual abuse, large scale drugs conspiracies and homicide.

Recent examples of his work include prosecuting a solicitor for fraud, prosecuting a pharmacy dispenser for supplying drugs which contributed to a young boy’s death, defending in an historic sexual abuse cases in which two brothers abused their younger step sister over a number of years defending in a multi handed gangland firearms conspiracy and defending in a multi handed people trafficking conspiracy.

Although regularly instructed in the most serious cases he maintains the ethos that no matter what the circumstances are, every case is important to his client and is deserving of the best representation

He has been described as a thorough and persuasive jury advocate with a good manner with clients of all types.

Outside work his time is taken up by his family and his interests in music and outdoor activities.

Memberships

Grade 4 prosecutor
Criminal Bar Association
Fraud Lawyers Association