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Crime (general and fraud)

John Elvidge KC

John Elvidge KC

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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.
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Crime/Regulatory

Position

John Elvidge KC has led in many important high profile criminal cases throughout the North of England.

He receives instructions from specialist criminal solicitors to defend and prosecute in complex cases including those brought by CPS CCU, CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division and the Serious Fraud Office.

Examples of recent work: Corporate Manslaughter, Gross Negligence Manslaughter, Terrorist Murder, and multi-handed prosecutions in cases of Murder and Serious Organised Crime.

Career

Called 1988; QC 2010; head of York Chambers 2011; head of Dere Street Barristers 2011 to date; Leader of the North Eastern Circuit 2014 to 2016

Education

King Edward VII School, Sheffield; University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Inns of Court School of Law.

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