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John O'Higgins
Position
Serious Crime
Career
Articled to Tony Edwards at T.V. Edwards & Co, London E1 1984-86
Admitted Solicitor 1986
Called to Bar of Middle Temple 1990
[Pupil master Anthony Leonard – now HHJ Leonard QC]
Tenant at Chambers of Stephen Hockman QC, 6 Pump Court, Temple, London: 2004 to present
Tenant at No5 Chambers Birmingham concurrently from January 2017
Formerly Senior of Kent Bar Mess
Sometime member of South East Circuit committee.
Memberships
South Eastern Circuit
Midland Circuit
Kent Bar Mess
Criminal Bar Association
Education
Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester
Queens’ College, Cambridge University 1979-82
B.A. Hons in Modern History
M.A. 1986
Nottingham Law School [Trent Polytechnic] 1983-4
Common Professional Examination 1983
Law Society Final Examination 1984
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1John O’Higgins – No5 Barristers’ Chambers ‘John is very thorough and approachable. His attention to detail is remarkable. When he speaks, he ensures the entire court notices.’
No5 Barristers’ Chambers has expertise in handling high-profile criminal cases, including murder, financial crime, sexual abuse and drug offences, and is praised as one of the ‘leading chambers of barristers in the Midland Circuit’. Michael Duck KC has an established criminal practice and recently successfully prosecuted two young adults and a teenager who were convicted of the attempted murder of a thirteen-year-old boy in Birmingham’s Hockley Circus using an improvised firearm modified to fire shotgun cartridges; the case involved issues as to cell site analysis and the naming of the seventeen-year-old convicted. Michelle Heeley KC, who is regularly instructed for both the defence and the prosecution, prosecuted an eighteen-year-old who was convicted of killing a seventeen-year-old in Smethwick with what was referred to in the press as a “Rambo knife”; the matter involved issues of rap lyrics evidence. Ian Bridge specialises in criminal defence and has appeared in cases involving death by dangerous driving, while John O’Higgins advises on cases concerning terrorism and sexual offences.