18 St John Street Chambers

Criminal law, employment law.

Daniel is an experienced trial advocate and regularly prosecutes and defends serious and complex criminal cases in the Crown Court. His practice covers serious violent and sexual offences, including murder, manslaughter, causing death by dangerous driving, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, rape, sexual assault, armed robbery, firearms, arson, fraud and cases involving the large-scale importation, production and supply of drugs.

Daniel has a particular specialism in criminal appeals, having spent 18 months in employed practice at the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), providing legal support and advice to the Registrar of Criminal Appeals and the senior judiciary. He has worked on high-profile reported criminal conviction and sentence appeals of the utmost seriousness, up to and including murder, invoking highly technical and complex principles of appellate law. He has an insider’s knowledge and experience of the practice of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and has been assigned by the Registrar to appear on behalf of unrepresented litigants at the Court of Appeal.

Daniel is instructed as leading and as led junior counsel in serious cases across the spectrum, including murder, high-value white collar crime and allegations of non-recent sexual offending. He co-defended in the UK’s first prosecution for Film Tax Credit fraud, a complex and high-profile conspiracy attracting international media coverage.

He is appointed as a Level 4 prosecutor on the Crown Prosecution Service Advocate Panel and has been appointed to the Crown Prosecution Service Advocate Panel Rape and Serious Sexual Abuse List.

Called 2008; Lincoln’s Inn.

Criminal Bar Association; Northern Circuit; Lincoln’s Inn.

University of Manchester; Manchester Metropolitan University. Qualifications: LLB (hons) first class; MA international politics (international relations); postgraduate diploma in legal practice (BVC). Lord Denning Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn); RG Lawson Senior Legal Scholarship (University of Manchester); RW Stead Scholarship (University of Manchester); RG Lawson Prize for Criminal Justice (University of Manchester).