Robert Forrest
CALLED TO BAR: 2007
INN OF COURT: Lincoln's Inn
EDUCATION: MA (Cantab); CPE/Diploma in Law and BVC - BPP Law School
PRACTICE AREAS:

• Droop Scholarship (2006)
• Hubert Greenland Pupillage Award (2007)
• Hardwicke Scholarship (2007)

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Robert joined Chambers in 2008 after completing his pupillage under Adam Feest and Adrian Fleming.  Since then he has been instructed in all areas of Chambers’ work but now specialises exclusively in crime; he prosecutes and defends in equal measure in both Hampshire and London.  Robert has recently been instructed in cases involving the making of indecent images, perverting the course of justice and offences involving serious violence.  He has particular experience in drugs and related offences.

Robert is a member of the Western Circuit and the CBA.

Interesting (completed) cases:

2011

• R v B, Newport Crown Court - Indictment containing drugs offences that could have been preferred before B had pleaded guilty to other drugs charges; stayed as an abuse of the court’s process on Connelly v DPP principles;
• R v RH, Inner London Crown Court - Prosecuting RH on three separate indictments after he had been found unfit to plead;
• R v X, Youth Court - Defending a young person charged with the theft of nearly £100,000 in cash; only evidence against X was obtained from his ABE interview after he had been treated as a witness when suspected of the offence; consequently there were multiple breaches of PACE;

2010

• Operation Lanner, Central Criminal Court - Led prosecution junior in three handed, 5 week attempted murder; in an horrendous case of bullying the victim, who had significant learning difficulties, was lured from his flat, knocked unconscious and set alight with accelerants by ‘friends’;
• R v W, Southampton Crown Court - Defending a man charged with violent disorder after a Portsmouth and Southampton FA Cup clash; he was responsible, the Crown said, for the ‘iconic scene’ of the incident;
• R v C, Central Criminal Court - Prosecuting contested confiscation hearing involving hidden assets and offshore funds.