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CHAMBERS OF MARK KIMSEY
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Andrew Dowden
Year of call: 1991
Trinity Hall Cantab. MPhil.
Andrew is a senior junior with a broad experience in crime, inquests and employment law. Andrew has a particular interest in fraud and financial crime including confiscation. Andrew’s general crime practice revolves around serious violence, sexual offences and drug related crime, including large scale conspiracies to supply.
R-v-Dixon and others. Conspiracy to rob. Firearms.
R-v-Ali and others. Leading counsel for the first defendant in a 12 handed Child sex trafficking case. Rape and other serious sexual offences. The first trafficking case under the new legislation.
R-v-Mangere and others. International conspiracy to defraud involving hundreds of million pounds of stolen banking instruments.
R-v-S and others. Multi million pound long firm fraud.
R-v-C. Confiscation of properties.
R-v- Coe. Large scale business cheque fraud.
R-v Mahmood and others. Inter-city conspiracy to supply drugs.
R-v- N. & others. Theft and distribution of tens of thousands of UK travel visas.
R-v-Ali, Conspiracy to defraud, bogus marriages.
R-v-K. S18 GBH. Unprovoked stabbing of bystander.
R-v-Ahmed. S18 GBH. Gang ‘induction’ stabbing.
R-v-M. S18 GBH. A series of 4 random knife attacks on strangers in the course of one evening.
R-v-S and others. Knife point robberies. One victim, a surgeon received career threatening injuries.
R-v-Kilac Bomb hoaxes.
R-v-S. Serious assault by a solicitor on a Claimant in the High Court. Solicitor struck off.
Lakanal House Inquest. 3 month inquest, representing the family of three of the deceased.
Bicknell-v-Newton. House of Lords. Architects contractual dispute. Costs. Vexatious Litigant.
Memberships.
Criminal Bar Association.
Chambers Management Committee.
British Society of Criminology.
Grade 3 Prosecution Counsel.
Prosecution Rape List.
Lincoln’s Inn Bar Representation Committee 2006-2011
British Cycling.