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Tim Kiely

020 7520 6000 chambers@18rlc.co.uk View profile

Position

Tim manages a busy Crime practice across a wide range of matters in both the Crown and Magistrates’ Courts. He has experience of prosecuting and defending on a variety of criminal matters, including Serious Violence, Drugs Offences, Road Traffic Offences, Fraud, burglaries and cases involving domestic violence. These matters frequently involve dealing with vulnerable defendants and witnesses.

He has undertaken drafting work for the Government Legal Department on Immigration matters and he is currently part of the Metropolitan Police counsel team on the Undercover Policing Inquiry chaired by Sir John Mitting. He has also handled confiscation matters following conviction in Money Laundering & Proceeds Of Crime Act (POCA)-related proceedings.

Tim has completed the ICCA ‘Advocacy and the Vulnerable’ training course.

Prior to joining chambers, Tim worked both as a county court advocate in a variety of civil matters on the Midlands circuit, and as a paralegal at Corker Binning and Fulcrum chambers in London. From January to April 2015 he was an intern at the Capital Appeals Project, a legal non-profit based in New Orleans where he assisted with the most complex and contentious criminal appeals, as well as campaigning more generally for the abolition of the death penalty in Louisiana.

Career

Year of Call: 2014

CPS Advocate General Crime (Grade 3)

Panel Member for Fraud and POCA (Grade 2)

Panel Member for Serious Crime (Grade 3)

Junior Immigration Advisory Scheme

Publications:

‘Demonstrators who topple statues should not be prosecuted’, The Times, 11/06/2020, with Ed Vickers QC

‘After Edward Colston, what next for our monuments to white supremacy?’, Counsel Magazine website, 15/06/2020

‘A view from a Junior Barrister’, Bar Council blog, 10/12/2020

‘Are we taking the right approach to knife crime?’, Open Access Government, 21/11/2019

‘44% of crime investigations are dropped’, Open Access Government, 12/12/2019

‘Is Covid-19 Changing How We Think About Criminal Justice Reform?’, Each Other, 26/03/2020

‘Patel should have taken notice of domestic violence long before coronavirus’, The Times,  with Kate Bex QC, 23/04/2020

Memberships

CBA

Young Fraud Lawyers Association

Gray’s Inn

Education

BPTC, City Law School

GDL, University of Birmingham: Commendation

BA(Hons) English Language and Literature, St Johns’ College, Oxford – BA(Hons) English Language and Literature: 1st