Anna Vigars > Chambers of Anna Vigars KC > Bristol, England > Barrister Profile
Guildhall Chambers Offices
Guildhall Chambers
23 BROAD STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 2HG
England
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Anna Vigars
Work Department
Crime; health and safety.
Position
Anna is a criminal, health and safety and environmental law barrister with 18 years’ experience. She is CPS Grade 4 Prosecutor and is on included in the ‘A’ List panel of specialist regulatory advocates in health and safety and environmental law.
Career
Called 1996.
Since taking Silk in 2017, Anna has prosecuted and defended cases involving allegations of murder, manslaughter, the multiple rape of children and vulnerable people, human trafficking, and planned mass shooting. She is very experienced in leading a team dealing with the prosecution of multiple defendants and enjoys the challenges of drawing together scattered or complex strands of evidence to build a compelling picture for the jury. Anna has worked extensively with witnesses who have faced multiple challenges to being able to give evidence and has worked with them so that they are able to repose trust in her and give powerful evidence despite the hurdles.
Anna has also worked with many defendants who have struggled with vulnerabilities and sometimes severe psychiatric problems. She’s been able to inspire confidence in them, engage them in the process they are facing and give them the necessary agency. She has also worked with a number of companies, professional bodies, and other agencies facing or prosecuting regulatory offences and is skilled at complementing a team within those organisations, balancing the commercial realities of their world with the practical and legal issues in the case.
Memberships
- Criminal Bar Association
Education
- City University, London
- St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Anna Vigars KC – Guildhall Chambers ‘Anna is an exceptional advocate. She has a sharp and incisive mind and an ability to quickly grasp and retain large amounts of information. She also quickly builds a rapport with even the most difficult of clients.’
Guildhall Chambers ‘has an unrivalled team of excellent criminal barristers‘. Richard Smith KC, ‘a formidable trial advocate‘, is well-known for handling murder cases and recently prosecuted a man who was convicted of murdering his ex-partner in the 1990s by setting her on fire; she died of her injuries more than two decades later, after the defendant had already served fifteen years of a life sentence for GBH. With a ‘beautiful advocacy style‘ Andrew Langdon KC regularly defends and prosecutes in homicide and gang-related cases, among others. Christopher Quinlan KC, ‘with impeccable judgement and a formidable grasp of the law‘ and Anna Vigars KC, whose ‘courtroom work is carried out with great skill and precision‘, also both have broad experience in serious crimes cases, as well as in cases with several complicating factors, both evidential and medical. Ray Tully KC ‘understands every nuance of a case‘ and recently acted for the defence in the case of a man who killed a stranger with a claw-hammer at a bus stop in Plymouth. Chloe Griggs, ‘a star in the making‘, was recently involved in a murder trial involving a defence of diminished responsibility founded on evidence of long-term coercive control and domestic abuse.