London Bar
Crime
Leading junior4David Smith – Foundry Chambers ‘David is a tenacious advocate, calm in difficult situations and gives solicitors confidence. He is not one to duck giving difficult advice when needed.’
Foundry Chambers
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David Smith
Foundry Chambers, London
- Phone020 7400 1800
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.foundrychambers.com
Work Department
Foundry Chambers
Position
YEAR OF CALL 1988
Prosecution and defence.
Career
David Smith has been practicing at the bar continuously for over 30 years and has a practice spanning the whole criminal calendar. David both prosecutes and defends in equal measure and finds there to be a great advantage in practice to possessing both skill sets.
David has both prosecuted and defended in multiple defendant trials as leading and junior counsel in cases involving serious violence, drugs, fraud, child cruelty and sexual offending.
David is known for his work with vulnerable witnesses and defendants, children and the mentally ill.
Memberships
Appointments
CPS External Advocates Panel: Level 4 CPS Specialist Rape List
MembershipsThe Honourable Society of the Middle Temple The South Eastern Circuit The Criminal Bar Association Fraud Lawyer Association
AwardsCommander’s Commendation, Metropolitan Police, (awarded for prosecuting multiple defendant drugs cases involving undercover police officers)
Education
Leeds Beckett University CIFE [Centre of International Federalism, Vorarlberg, Austria] The Inns of Court School of Law