Peter Makepeace KC

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 man, and Elvidge KC his son, in a murder and manslaughter trial and appeal after the father killed a man in a deliberate hit and run revenge attack. 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.