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Peter Alcock
Position
His extensive criminal practice covers the entire spectrum of crime including murder, serious non-fatal violence, rape, other sexual offences, dishonesty offences, fraud, drugs offences, duty evasion and illegal entry. His practice also includes regulatory and road traffic work. His practice involves both defence and prosecution work. He has the longstanding following of a significant number of excellent defence solicitors. He is also regularly instructed by the CPS as a grade 4 advocate (which includes the rape panel). Since 1995 he has been an extremely busy practitioner in his field and accordingly has acted both as counsel alone and also as junior counsel in many high-profile cases. In more recent years he has been instructed as leading counsel in such cases within his field including murder, drugs offences, fraud and duty evasion. He has superb presentation and communication skills which enable him to master complex, multi-handed and sensitive cases, including those involving defendants or witnesses who are vulnerable. He is currently instructed in significant on-going work of the above type including murder, serious fraud, regulatory and sexual offences.
Career
Called 1995; Gray’s Inn.
Education
BA Hons.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > South Eastern Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Peter Alcock –Six Pump Court ‘Peter is an excellent and widely respected advocate.’
Six Pump Court is a ‘solid set with a wealth of experience’ in all areas of criminal practice, with particular expertise in cases involving sexual offences and homicide. Experienced practitioner Richard Barraclough KC recently secured acquittal of a man being tried for murder and manslaughter in a case related to murder of a drug supplier by a competitor, and jointly heads the team with Nina Ellin KC, who is renowned for her ‘calm, confident and reassuring manner’ and successfully defended a young man, aged eighteen at the time of the alleged offence, accused of manslaughter after punching a man who was subsequently punched again by a co-defendant. Peter Alcock has extensive experience of acting for both the defence and the prosecution in criminal cases and acted as prosecutor in a two-handed corporate manslaughter case that involved a fatality at a waste management site (R v FDS Waste Limited & Phillip Pidgely). Danny Moore is a ‘first class defence barrister’ who also prosecutes. ‘Tenacious defender’ John Fitzgerald is known for ‘his meticulous preparation and written applications’ – he and Ellin KC represented a man who was charged with murder and only convicted of lesser offences after a homeless unregistered barrister was beaten to death with, among other objects, a gavel in a car park in Canterbury; a co-defendant was convicted of murder.