Sophie Murray is a barrister specialising in criminal and family law.
Year of Call: 2007
Sophie Murray is a highly experienced Barrister who specialises in serious sex, child injury and mental health cases where she demonstrates considerable expertise together with a sensitive and pragmatic approach. She is regularly instructed as junior counsel in multi-handed murder, drugs and fraud cases receiving excellent feedback from senior counsel and members of the Bench. She often appears in the Court of Appeal and recently was successful in reducing a youth sentence of 4 years custody for rape, to a community order.
Sophie Murray is a CPS Level 4 Prosecutor and is on the CPS Panel for Rape and Serious Sexual Offences.
Sophie Murray has presented seminars on mental health sentencing regimes and has specialises in defending clients with autism. She is listed in the Legal 500, 2022, as a Leading Junior.
St Ives Chambers 10 January 2022 – Present Day
No5 Chambers Fountain Court – 2016- 09 January 2022
2007 Call Lincolns Inn
2006 -2007 UWE – BVC (commendation)
2003 -Law Society – Qualified as a Solicitor
1999 – 2000 UCL – LLM
1996 – 1997 College of Law – LPC
1993 – 1996 UEA – 2.1