Stephen Parish
CALLED TO BAR: 1966
INN OF COURT: Inner Temple
EDUCATION: LL.B. (Hons)
PRACTICE AREAS: Criminal Law

• Recorder of the Crown Court (since 1987)
• Western Circuit
• Criminal Bar Association
• Contributor to Criminal Law Review and Archold News including “Self-Defence, the wrong Direction?” [1997] Crim LR 201 and “Drafting Indictments” Archbold News December 1994

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

Stephen Parish is a criminal practitioner who prosecutes and defends a whole range of cases, including serious violence, child abuse, sexual offences, computer crime and drugs. He has prosecuted and defended numerous cases of attempted murder, manslaughter and, as junior, murder.  He is a grade 4 Prosecutor and on A list of the Attorney General's Unified List of Prosecution Advocates.

He has particular expertise in fraud, having been involved in mortgage, franchise and company fraud cases. He regularly prosecutes and defends in serious sex cases. He was leading Counsel for the Crown in the prosecution of Robert Wells, the Hampshire forensic medical practitioner charged with rape and drug offences and likewise in Operation Mermaid, said to have been the largest counterfeiting enterprise in the history of the Bank of England.

Crown court cases undertaken in 2009-10 include attempted murder, rape and other sexual offences against children and adults, downloading child pornography, kidnapping, blackmail, drugs supply, conspiracy to commit armed robbery (leading for the Crown), dockyard fraud and causing death by dangerous driving.  Specific details can be obtained from his clerks.

His hobbies are said to be playing tennis and reading Archbold.

EXAMPLES OF REPORTED CASES UNDERTAKEN

• R v Lambert [2009] EWCA Crim 2860 (blackmail).
• R v. Mintern [2004] 2 Cr App R 343 (conspiracy indictments)
• R v Winchester Crown Court ex p Forbes [1999] 1 Cr App R 409 DC (leading case on custody time limits)
• R v Buckman [1997] 1 Cr App R (S) 325 (drug trafficking, confiscation)
• R v. Sharp (C) [1988] 1 WLR 7 (HL) (hearsay, mixed statements)
• R v Hucklebridge; Attorney General's Reference (No.3 of 1980) (1980) 71 Cr.App.R. 171 (Firearms; definition of shotgun)