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Kate Blackwell KC
Lincoln House Chambers
TOWER 12, BRIDGE STREET, SPINNINGFIELDS
MANCHESTER
M3 3BZ
England

Work Department

Business Crime & Financial Regulation
Criminal Law
Professional Discipline
Regulatory

Position

Joe came to the Bar in 1993 having originally been a Branch Crown Prosecutor and national Head of Strategy with the CPS.  He has also been a lecturer at Chester Law College.

He has a large criminal practice that incorporates all areas of criminal law including fraud, murder, manslaughter, drugs, violence and sex cases.  Joe is also regularly instructed in regulatory cases involving the Police.

Joe has experience tackling a wide-range of intriguing and serious cases. He has been involved in a number of complex, high- profile trials, both defending and prosecuting.

He continues to present seminars and lecture on regulatory and criminal topics to a wide variety of professional audiences.

Career

Called 1993; lecturer in law, College of Law, Chester; CPS branch Crown prosecutor and head of field operations, CPS HQ; regular lecturer to law firms, law societies, police etc, on topics relating to criminal law and human rights.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association

Education

Loretto School, Musselburgh
St John’s College, Cambridge
“Late Exhibitioner”

Leisure

Football, golf, tennis, squash, sailing, skiing.