Dere Street Barristers

Dere Street Barristers is renowned for its ‘brilliant, dedicated, and persuasive advocates, handling cases of the utmost gravity across all practice areas’. John Elvidge KC was recently instructed to prosecute a case involving five men charged with the attempted murder of a 16-year-old boy in Salford. Peter Makepeace KC represented a defendant facing charges of murder and attempted murder for encouraging his father to drive into a group in revenge for an earlier attack - the accused was convicted of manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm, but the latter conviction was quashed on appeal. Anne Richardson prosecuted a man sentenced to eight years after being convicted of seven counts of perverting the course of justice for making false rape allegations against multiple men.