Barry McElduff
CALLED TO BAR: 2002
INN OF COURT: Lincoln's Inn
EDUCATION: BA (Hons), ERASMUS Scholar (Queen’s Belfast) 1998, Lord Brougham Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn) 2001, Hardwicke Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn) 2002
PRACTICE AREAS: Criminal Law, General Common Law
- Criminal Bar Association
- Member of Western Circuit
For further information, please contact clerks@2kbw.com or ring 0207 353 1746. Alternatively, use the secure email clerks@2kbw.com.cjsm.net
Work Summary
Barry McElduff has been at 2KBW since being called to the Bar. He practises almost exclusively in crime and its related fields. He is a Grade 3 Prosecutor on the CPS Approved List of Advocates for the Western Circuit. He is also on the CPS London list.
Whilst he has developed a reputation as a tenacious cross-examiner, he is also noted for his sensitive handling of vulnerable witnesses.
EXAMPLES OF RECENT CASES
2012
- R v Harrison - defending allegations of torture, robbery and false imprisonment.
- R v O'L - defending in a conspiracy to burgle alleging incidents over a six month period across several counties in the South of England.
- R v H - defending historical sexual allegations made by the Defendant's niece.
2011
- R v O - Defending man charged with raping his daughter when she was seven, now aged eleven.
- R v B - Prosecuting multiple complainant sexual abuse allegations that involved indicting offences from outside the English jurisdiction.
- R v O'D - Prosecuting multiple complainant sexual abuse allegations that stemmed from the early 1970's.
- R v Sharpe - Defending fully contested POCA hearing where benefit figure and available amount reduced by approximately 75%
- R v Gibbs and ors - Defending main Defendant in large scale Violent Disorder arising from Portsmouth v Cardiff football match.
2010
- R V Wilson and ors - Defence of a football fan alleged to have been part of a large Violent Disorder following a Southampton-Portsmouth F.A. Cup tie.
- Operation Fawley - Led Junior representing the owner of a care home charged with allegations of neglect of mentally incapacitated aduilts who were resident in the home at the time, believed to be the first case of its kind nationally.
- R v B - Defending in a multi-complainant sexual abuse allegations case arising out of a children's home in the 1970's. Following one jury discharge and one hung jury, the case was stayed as an abuse of process.
- R v T - Representing a 17 year old charged with attempted murder, acting as sole junior.
2009
- R v Edwards - Defending a man charged with theft of tools from the MOD over a 20 year period.
- Operation Kiff - Defending in a large scale amphetamine importation.
- Operation Pantheon - Successsful defence of man alleged to be the accountant in a large scale Cocaine conspiracy.
- Operation Panwell - Prosecution of a Conspiracy to burgle elderly people by distraction methods across several counties of Southern England.
- R v Buckley - Led Junior in a large scale fraud relating to mobile SIM gateways.
Reported Cases
2012
R v Dalby [2012] EWCA Crim 701 - development in relation to what can and cannot constitute bad character evidence.
2011
R v Hopkins [2011] EWCA Crim 1513 - leading case in relation to the Mental Capcity Act 2005
