Park Square Barristers

Criminal

Crime

Ranked in The Legal 500 (2025) and Chambers and Partners (2025) for Crime.

Julian is a specialist in serious and complex crime. He is instructed for the prosecution and defence in approximately equal proportions. He appears as leading junior counsel, sole counsel, and is led by King’s Counsel.

• CPS Advocates' General Panel (Grade 4) (North Eastern, London and South Eastern Circuits)
• CPS Advocates' Serious Crime Group Panel (Grade 4)
• CPS Advocates' Specialist Fraud Group Panel (Grade 4)
• CPS Rape and Child Sexual Abuse List
• Serious Fraud Office List A 2017-2020; renewed 2020-2024
• Pupil Supervisor

Julian has experience of very substantial width and depth in trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, the giving of advice and case management.

He brings very thorough preparation and a firm grip on case management to every case he undertakes.

Julian is fully committed to giving every case the best he possibly can and those who instruct him know their case is in trusted hands. In the current resource stripped climate he will “go the extra mile” and do whatever he personally can for CPS or SFO Lawyers, Paralegal Officers and Defence Solicitors so as to make a case ready for hearing.

He takes great pride in client care, whether it be working with senior prosecution lawyers and police officers on prosecution strategy, or fulfilling the pastoral side of the job with a vulnerable defence client.

Julian is firmly committed to a mixed practice of both defending and prosecuting and believes experience on each side has helped him on the other.

His experience includes cases involving abuse of process, judicial review, confiscation, PII, notification hearings, RIPA/IPA, witness anonymity, third party disclosure, police texts, fitness to plead.

He has a particular interest and expertise in disclosure and has recently lectured to a leading Legal 500 criminal defence firm (Lloyds PR) and to senior Metropolitan Police Service detectives on this topic.

Private Prosecutions Team

Julian specialises in private prosecutions and has over many years successfully secured convictions on behalf of his clients.

He is able to act from cradle to grave in such cases advising on the prospects of success pre charge through to applications for costs following conviction.

He conducts private prosecution work in both the Magistrates and Crown Courts. His clients include companies, charities and private individuals.

Call 1999

Appointments: CPS Advocates’ General Panel (Grade 4) (North Eastern, London and South Eastern Circuits)

CPS Advocates’ Serious Crime Group Panel (Grade 4)

CPS Advocates’ Specialist Fraud Group Panel (Grade 4)

CPS Rape and Child Sexual Abuse List

Serious Fraud Office List A

1997 The University of Birmingham, Faculty of Law LLB (Hons)