Criminal

Call 1985, Silk 2010 (Door Tenant)

Appointments:1999Committee member, Funding of Independent Schools Committee

South Eastern Circuit Bar MessCriminal Bar AssociationPlanning Bar AssociationVice-president, Association of Sri Lankan Lawyers, UK

Lee is a highly experienced specialist criminal defence counsel. He has been practising for over 30 years and has built up a reputation and following amongst solicitors and lay clients alike such that he is instructed in serious criminal cases across the country. He is deeply passionate about his cases and is committed to achieving the best result for his clients. He has appeared in many serious and high profile cases from homicides and sexual cases to international financial crime.

Lee began his career as a barrister practising general common law being instructed in civil, family and criminal cases. Within a short period he was committed to an exclusively criminal practice. He built a reputation as a hardworking and talented junior barrister and was instructed in many high profile and serious cases, becoming a regular at the Old Bailey.

Since 2005 (taking silk in 2010), Lee’s practice has expanded from London to serious and high-profile cases in Leeds and elsewhere on the North Eastern Circuit.

1979University of Westminster

1985 College of Legal Education