Park Square Barristers

Criminal

Christopher Dunn has defended and prosecuted a wide range of serious criminal cases in the Crown Court and Higher Courts for over 27 years. Christopher is a Grade 4 prosecutor and is on the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) panel for the Crown Prosecution Service.

Christopher is known for his robust yet surgical approach to advocacy with a down to earth attitude always with a reassuring presence for vulnerable witnesses and defendants.

Christopher has extensive experience of preparing large, serious and multi-handed cases, including advising on preparing defence and prosecution cases pre-charge, drafting complex legal arguments as well as advices on appeal against sentence and conviction and drafting respondent's notes for the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.

Christopher has a specialist professional interest in motor manslaughter cases, and fatalities arising out of driving offences. Christopher is a police trained driver and rider and holds the highest civilian qualification in the United Kingdom for driving cars and riding motorcycles and is an examiner and assessor for IAM Road Smart. Christopher has defended and prosecuted in numerous cases where drivers have been charged with causing death or serious injury by the standard of their driving. Christopher has also prosecuted for the Independent Office of Police Conduct in relation to a serving police officer whose standard of on duty driving caused serious injury to members of the public.

Christopher appears for either side in serious criminal cases involving murder, rape, firearms and conspiracies.

Call 1996

Appointments: 2015 RASSO panel

Grade 4 Prosecutor

North Eastern Circuit

1991 Newcastle Polytechnic, BSc (Hons) in Sociology (2.2)

1993 Newcastle University, MA in Legal Studies (Distinction)

1994 Northumbria University, Legal Practice Course

1995 Newcastle University, LLM by Research (Distinction)

1996 Inns of Court School of Law, BVC (Competent)