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Paul Lewis QC

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Paul Lewis QC

 
 
 

Year of Call

1980

QC

2001

Areas of Practice

Crime

 
 

Practice Overview

Paul Lewis was educated at Pontypridd Boy’s Grammar School before gaining an LL.B at Leicester University, where he studied from 1976 to 1979. He then studied Bar Finals at the Inns of Court School of Law, London. After being called to the Bar he then undertook a pupillage at Thirty Park Place before becoming a tenant in 1983.

He practices exclusively in Criminal Law and his areas of specialisation within this field are serious fraud, homicide and sexual offences. He took silk in 2001 and continues to practice from Thirty Park Place in addition to his London chambers.

Appointments

  • Assistant Recorder (1998)
  • Recorder (2000)
  • Queen's Counsel (2001)
  • Chairman of the Counsel of the Inns of Court Bar Disciplinary Tribunals

Memberships

  • Criminal Bar Association

Education

  • LLB (Hons) Leicester

Notable and Reported Cases

  • R v Lloyd & Lewis - Swansea Crown Court prosecuted first case of familial homicide heard in Wales
  • R v Joel Smith - Double murder of a father and daughter Toni-Ann Byfield case. Heard at the central criminal court
  • R v Juwaid Abu Hamza (Birmingham Crown Court) The Kyhra Ishaq Case.
  • R v Duvall and others - Acted for the prosecution in the multi-handed trial of a gang who attacked and killed a man on his own doorstep
  • R v Osbourne and others - Acted for the defendant in a 5 month trial of a drugs related contract murder
  • R v Riches - Acted for the defence in an allegation of historic murder by a father of his child some 25 years earlier
  • R v Stewart and others - Acted for the defence in a trial concerning the abduction and murder by fire of a local youth
  • R v Morrisey and others - Acted for the defence in the trial of four defendants charged with the armed robbery of a Worcestershire post office/murder of the son of the postmaster /attempted murder of this father
 

 

 
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