Kelly Brocklehurst
CALLED TO BAR: 2010
INN OF COURT: Gray’s Inn
EDUCATION: BA, GDL, BVC (Outstanding), Uthwatt Award (Gray’s Inn) 2009
PRACTICE AREAS: Criminal Law, Military Law, Common Law

For further information, please contact clerks@2kbw.com or ring 0207 353 1746. Alternatively, use the secure email clerks@2kbw.com.cjsm.net

Kelly has defended in a wide range of criminal matters including those involving violence, fraud and dishonesty, sexual offences, and drugs cases, both in London and on the Western Circuit. He also has experience of defence work at Courts Martial, civil hearings in county courts across the south, and prosecution work in the Crown Court.

Before coming to the bar, Kelly held a commission in the Royal Marines where he specialized in the conduct of domestic and overseas counter-terrorism operations. This work included advising various police forces and government agencies.

Recent cases include:

2012

• R v S - Winchester Crown Court - representing defendant on counts of robbery involving vulnerable victims (ongoing).
• R v S - Harrow Crown Court - representing defendant on counts of affray and making off without payment involving issues of fitness to plead (ongoing).

2011

• R v M & N - Newport Crown Court (IOW) - represented both defendants during a two day appeal on charges of benefit fraud
• R v EW - Southampton Crown Court - represented defendant in a matter of affray.
• R v W - Southampton Crown Court - represented defendant in seven-handed violent disorder.
• R v H - Colchester Military Court Centre - represented defendant soldier on a charge of desertion where he had been absent for over a year.
• R v S - Winchester Crown Court - represented defendant on matters of theft and multiple breaches of an ASBO.
• R v T – Newport Crown Court (IOW) - represented a vulnerable client at trial on a count of perverting the course of public justice.
• R v O – Southampton Youth Court- represented at trial one of two defendants charged jointly with section 20 GBH.
• R v B - Southampton Magistrates’ Court- persuaded the court to find special reasons in a drink driving matter following ‘shortness of distance’ legal argument.