The Legal 500 says:
Jeremy Gold QC of Westgate Chambers deals easily with the complex and often harrowing crimes allegedly committed by his solicitors’ clients within the circuit, passing from back-to-back murder trials to drug trafficking trials with aplomb. Philip Meredith, ‘ a very senior junior of silk quality’ is also in demand. Nicholas Howard Hamblin has defended most types of fraud, including carousel and mortgage fraud, ‘ with considerable ingenuity’. Jeremy Wainwright is a very experienced advocate and highly recommended, as is Jeffrey Lamb. Ahmed Hossain is noted as an ‘ effective advocate, with wider experience in conspiracy and fraud than would be expected at his call’. Andrew Selby is a good choice for criminal defence, especially where the examination of expert witnesses is required.
Westgate Chambers's Aviva Le Prevost is very busy in child law cases. Duncan Watson has considerable expertise in complex ancillary relief cases involving offshore trusts, disputed disclosure, and pension splitting.
Chambers and Partners says:
Jeremy Gold QC is the leading light of the set, and works on serious and complex crime cases. His recent notable work includes defending a multi-handed gang murder and also acting for the defence in an eight-handed drugs conspiracy. He also regularly prosecutes. Specialising in “blood-and-guts crime,” Philip Meredith is “well able to get to the relevant points in double-quick time.” He proves popular as he is “a good scrapper - give him a difficult case or a difficult client and he will deal with it very well.” During the past year, he has been working almost back-to-back on murder cases. Leading junior Jeffrey Lamb is especially skilled at work on serious sex cases, although his practice also recently involved a seven-week murder trial and a three-month drugs conspiracy. He is “both technically and academically very good.” Andrew Selby “always goes that extra mile” and is “very confident.” Interviewees observed that he is “a fearless advocate who doesn’t shirk difficult trials.” Also recommended is Jeremy Wainwright, whose crime-focused practice recently involved acting in the third trial arising from the attempted 21/7 bombings and successfully defending in a drugs factory trial.
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19 November 2008
