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QEB Hollis Whiteman
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LONDON
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Susannah Stevens
Position
Susannah Stevens has an extensive criminal practice and is instructed to defend and prosecute in serious, complex cases covering the whole spectrum of criminal work, including murder, serious fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, rape and child cruelty. She has particular expertise in difficult cross-examinations and representing those regarded as vulnerable, including those with mental health issues. Susannah is also regularly instructed in police discipline, Courts Martial, and prison law matters. Her police discipline work includes the successful abuse of process application arising from a delay in serving the regulation notice in a case of racial assault and abuse. The proceedings followed a Channel 4 Dispatches programme and recommendations by the IPCC. Advised concerning a potential civil action of misfeasance in public office and negligence involving the conduct of a joint branch board chairman of the Police Federation. The case involved complex, esoteric issues of vicarious liability of the Chief Constable, the definition of a police federation representative, potential conflicts of interest and breaches of funding rules. Representing a Metropolitan Police sergeant in relation to a claim of false imprisonment against the Chief Constable of Kent, arising from an incident on Christmas Eve when the officer was off duty and sought to assist a Kent officer with an arrest.
Career
Called Middle Temple 1997.
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association; Association of Young Fraud Lawyers; Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers; Public Access Bar Association (PABA); registered with the Bar Council Public Access Directory.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4QEB Hollis Whiteman is ‘rising to the top of the field in inquests and public inquiries‘, the practice group headed by Nicholas Griffin KC, counsel to the Lampard inquiry into a number of unexplained mental health inpatient deaths in Essex over two decades, and also instructed for Steve Dymond’s General Practitioner in the Inquest arising from the patient’s suicide, following his filming of an episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show in May 2019 after being branded a “love cheat” after failing a polygraph test. Susannah Stevens is often sought after on inquests dealing with deaths in the workplace, experienced in representing families and professionals; she is instructed for four police officers in the inquest into the death of Thomas Orchard, who died in police custody having been restrained with a belt designed to prevent spitting and biting.
London Bar > Police law (forces and constables)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Susannah Stevens –QEB Hollis Whiteman ‘Susannah is an extremely robust advocate. She fights ferociously for her clients’ best interests. Often, her approach achieves excellent results.’
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Susannah Stevens – QEB Hollis Whiteman ‘Susannah is a superb cross-examiner as well as a confident and robust advocate. She is great with clients and quickly secures their confidence.’
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Susannah Stevens – QEB Hollis Whiteman ‘Susannah is a skilled advocate. She shows genuine care and attention to clients, making them feel reassured that she will go the extra mile.’