Clare Wade KC > Garden Court Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Garden Court Chambers, ‘full of dedicated and passionate advocates‘, is ‘amongst the best sets for serious and general crime work‘. James Scobie KC is ‘at the top of the profession in terms of criminal defence work‘ and is known especially for his expertise handling gang-related murder cases. Clare Wade KC defended a murder trial in which a defence of diminished responsibility was founded on a history of coercive control in the defendant’s relationship with her partner; the defendant was ultimately acquitted of murder and convicted of manslaughter, a domestic abuse expert having been called for the first time in such a trial to give evidence. Keir Monteith KC is instructed in an application to the Criminal Appeals Review Commission by three men serving life sentences for the murder of Abdul Hafidah in 2016, a case which has spawned discussion of the law of joint enterprise, gang membership evidence and the use of drill music videos as evidence.