No5 Barristers' Chambers

No5 Barristers' Chambers

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Barristers

John O'Higgins

John O'Higgins

No5 Barristers' Chambers, West Midlands

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

Mentions

Midland Circuit • Regional Bar

Crime (general and fraud)

Leading junior1
John O’Higgins – No5 Barristers’ Chambers ‘John has excellent communication skills with clients, with the ability to reassure clients who are anxious about proceedings. His performances in court are masterclasses. He is the most powerful advocate around and his cross-examination of witnesses is strategically brilliant and phenomenal.'

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