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5 Paper Buildings  is noted for having a ‘reputation for delivering a high quality service’ according to clients, with members appearing for the defence and prosecution in a range of very serious cases. In one of the highest-profile criminal cases of recent years, Deanna Heer KC  prosecuted Axel Rudakubana for the murder of three primary school-age children in a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport; the defendant received a life term with a minimum of 52 years, the second-longest minimum term short of a whole-life tariff on a life sentence, notwithstanding that the defendant was seventeen at the time of the offence. Miranda Moore KC prosecuted a man who was charged with murder stemming from in incident for which he was already serving a sentence for GBH with intent, after a pedestrian who he had rammed with his car died, while Benjamin Douglas-Jones KC  prosecuted a man who, as a struck-off paediatric surgeon, circumcised infants in unsanitary conditions and without anaesthesia.
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  • '5 Paper Building is full of very able barristers, who have a reptuation for delivering a high quality service.'
  • 'Strength throughout. Useful therefore for returns. Clerks very reliable and proactive.'
  • 'The clerks will always go the extra mile to assist their instructing solicitors - always helpful and attentive.'
  • 'A good criminal set with a talented mid-level.'
  • 'Excellent chambers, very hardworking and personable clerks. '
  • 'Strong throughout so helpful for returns.'

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