Ian Bridge > Chambers of Adrian Keeling KC and Jonathan Jones KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Chambers of Adrian Keeling KC and Jonathan Jones KC
No5 Barristers' Chambers
Fifth Floor, 7 Savoy Court
London
WC2R 0EX
England

Position

Defends in regulatory crime especially health and safety and environment, corporate crime, serious financial crime, tax fraud; Attorney General’s regulatory ‘A list’. Defends in serious injury and fatal RTA and other accident and disease cases – regularly appearing in linked inquests and undertaking linked personal injury. Specialist in VAT and excise duty appearing on behalf of appellants in the tax tribunals – instructed by national firms of solicitors and accountants. Instructed in statutory and private professional disciplinary tribunals. Leading junior based in London – works throughout the UK. Please refer to No5’s website for more information.

Career

Called to the Bar 1988.

Education

Sheffield University (LLB Hons).

Lawyer Rankings

Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Business and regulatory crime (including health and safety)

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1

Ian Bridge – No5 Barristers’ Chambers

Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Chancery, probate, and tax

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1

Ian Bridge – No5 Barristers’ Chambers

Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1

Ian Bridge – No5 Barristers’ Chambers

No5 Barristers’ Chambers has expertise in handling high-profile criminal cases, including murder, financial crime, sexual abuse and drug offences, and is praised as one of the ‘leading chambers of barristers in the Midland Circuit’. Michael Duck KC has an established criminal practice and recently successfully prosecuted two young adults and a teenager who were convicted of the attempted murder of a thirteen-year-old boy in Birmingham’s Hockley Circus using an improvised firearm modified to fire shotgun cartridges; the case involved issues as to cell site analysis and the naming of the seventeen-year-old convicted. Michelle Heeley KC, who is regularly instructed for both the defence and the prosecution, prosecuted an eighteen-year-old who was convicted of killing a seventeen-year-old in Smethwick with what was referred to in the press as a “Rambo knife”; the matter involved issues of rap lyrics evidence. Ian Bridge specialises in criminal defence and has appeared in cases involving death by dangerous driving, while John O’Higgins advises on cases concerning terrorism and sexual offences.