Jeremy Barton
CALLED TO BAR: 2004
INN OF COURT: Middle Temple
EDUCATION: LLB (Hons), Inns of Court School of Law (Awarded BAFS prize 2004 for achieving first place in criminal law)
PRACTICE AREAS:
- Honorary Member of The British Academy of Forensic Science
- Criminal Bar Association
- Direct Public Access: authorised to accept direct public access work directly from a member of the public or organisation
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Jeremy Barton joined chambers in 2006 and has built up a successful practice both defending and prosecuting serious criminal matters. He has particular experience in defending cases involving police discipline and regulatory matters, serious assaults, gang related crime, multi-handed public order cases, and defending clients with mental health issues.
Most recently, Jeremy successfully defended Sergeant Mark Andrews on appeal before the Police Appeals Tribunal, Swindon where he was reinstated following the hearing. This matter is currently still ongoing and was widely reported in the media.
Sergeant Andrews was originally dismissed from the police force in 2010 following a misconduct hearing in December the same year. He faced allegations of gross misconduct arising out of the way in which he was alleged to have dealt with a suspect, Pamela Somerville whilst in his custody.
Sergeant Andrews was dismissed from the police force, despite being cleared of any criminal wrongdoing on Appeal before Mr Justice Bean at Oxford Crown Court where he originally faced charges of causing actual bodily harm to Ms Somerville. Jeremy appeared for the defendant in all matters.
This high profile case involved assessing a great deal of expert medical evidence and careful cross examination of a particularly emotional and difficult complainant. (For more information on this particular case, please click on the following link or view chambers news page.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-16007845
Jeremy frequently appears in serious cases as sole counsel and has prosecuted and defended a number of weighty matters including, rape, blackmail, aggravated burglary and armed robbery. He has appeared as Junior Counsel in complicated missing trader VAT fraud cases involving site cell analysis and expert identification evidence.
In addition to criminal work, Jeremy frequently defends at Court Martial hearings across the country and other regulatory matters for both Police and the General Chiropractic Council. Jeremy also possesses a Diploma in Basic Anatomy and Human Physiology which he obtained prior to training as a barrister.
Jeremy also has vast experience of successfully defending driving offences on technical points of law.
Recent cases include:-
- R v Police Sergeant Mark Andrews - December 2011
- R v C - Double knife point rape - Sole Counsel
- R v B - Attempted murder - junior counsel. The case involved large amounts of CCTV and complicated mobile phone evidence.
- R v C - Blackmail/Aggravated burglary/Firearms offences - sole counsel. This multi-handed trial lasted three weeks and involved extensive legal argument on the admissibility of police evidence.
- R v S and S - Conspiracy to commit £100,000 copyright offences - sole counsel.
- R v K - £10 Million MTIC VAT Carousel fraud - junior counsel.
- R v G - Large scale passport factory - sole counsel.
- DWP v K £100,000 mortgage, credit card and benefit fraud - sole counsel.
- R v C and others - Violent disorder involving thirteen defendants - sole counsel.
- R v H and others - Violent disorder - sole counsel
- R v S - Section 18 OAPA - sole counsel.
- Police v S on appeal to the PCC - Serious charges against a senior ranking police officer who was successfully reinstated - sole counsel.
- Police v A - Serious charges against a police officer - sole counsel.
- R v E - Armed robbery - sole counsel.
