Barristers

Mark Ainsworth

Mark Ainsworth

Exchange Chambers, North West

Work Department

Criminal; Regulatory

Position

Mark has an extensive criminal and regulatory practice involving both prosecution and defence work. He is regularly instructed in large and complex fraud cases in cases involving homicide, drugs, firearms, sexual offences, fraud and health and safety.

He is a Category 4 Prosecutor on the Attorney General’s list for the Northern Circuit. He is also authorised to prosecute rape and other sexual offences.

Mark also regularly represents professionals in disciplinary proceedings, and he has also been instructed in proceedings on appeal to the Divisional Court. Mark is routinely instructed in cases involving General Practitioners, Consultant Anaesthetists, Consultant Gynaecologists and Consultant Pathologists. Mark also represents the interests of doctors whose performance has been the subject of scrutiny during an inquest in the Coroner’s Court. He has experienced of variety of such proceedings, including an Inquest into the death of a patient detained under the Mental Health Act.

Career

Called 1992; Recorder (2008)

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association