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Owen Williams

Owen Williams

9 Park Place

9 Park Place

England - Regional Bar • Wales and Chester Circuit

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Crime (general and fraud)

9 Park Place has ‘a wide range of counsel of all levels’, with members regularly instructed in serious prosecution and defence work, including terrorism, murder, drug offences, and sexual crimes. Heath Edwards has a broad practice, frequently defending in complex, multi-handed organised crime cases and is ’a superb advocate, quickly getting to grips with a case and conducting persuasive cross-examination’. Owen Williams, known as ‘a tenacious advocate’, is currently representing a defendant in an ongoing murder trial. Matthew Cobbe is praised as ’a robust and tenacious advocate’, bringing strength and determination to his criminal defence work.
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Profile

Position

Owen specialises in criminal law.  He is regularly instructed to appear for both the prosecution and the defence in cases involving homicide, serious violence, large-scale drugs conspiracies and rape and serious sexual offences.

For several years Legal 500 has ranked Owen as a Tier 1 practitioner and a Leading Junior.
“Owen has a grasp of the case very quickly and is able to communicate this in an effective way to the client and Court very effectively. No case is too problematic for Owen to resolve”.
(Legal 500 2022)

In previous editions of the Legal 500 he has been "recommended for cases involving murder, serious sexual offences and gross negligence manslaughter".

He is a Grade 4 prosecutor and is on the Specialist Panel for Prosecuting Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO).

Additionally, Owen has experience of prosecuting and defending in a wide range of cases brought by local authorities and government departments.

Career

Called 2000, Gray’s Inn.

  • Tribunal Judge – Mental Health Review Tribunal Wales
Education
  • Cardiff University Law (LLB)      1996-1999
  • Cardiff Law School BVC                1999-2000

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