CALA Officers
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Steven Bird
Criminal defence solicitor recommended in legal directories running a highly rated company, Birds Solicitors. Co-author of Police Station Advisers Index. Committee member...
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Farrhat Arshad KC
Farrhat Arshad KC is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. She specialises in criminal appeal work. She is experienced in both appeals against conviction and sentence...
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David Emanuel KC
David is a specialist appellate lawyer who has spent his career representing convicted defendants protesting their innocence. His meticulous dissection of...
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Tom Wainwright
Tom has a formidable reputation in the appellate courts, with a strong track record of quashing convictions and reducing sentences both by way of...
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Dr Laura Janes
Laura Janes was admitted as a solicitor in 2006. Laura is a consultant solicitor at Associates and GT Stewart Solicitors, where she conducts her criminal appeal work, and also...
Henry Blaxland KC
Widely recognised as a leading criminal silk, Henry Blaxland QC’s practice encompasses fraud, terrorism and homicide cases. He is often instructed in...
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Greg Stewart
Since qualifying in the 1990s Greg has specialised in advocacy and appeals involving children and young people and he has been involved with many policy issues including...
Abigail Bright
Abigail's interest in CALA was spurred in January 2013 as a new tenant when Abigail's appeal against sentence was allowed (five years' replaced by...
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Emma Torr
Emma is a barrister at APPEAL, a charity law practice that specialises in representing people who have been wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced. Emma applies an investigative approach...
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Claire Bostock
Claire is a criminal defence lawyer initially qualifying as a barrister (called to the English Bar in 1999) and then re-qualifying as a solicitor (admitted to the Roll in 2002). Claire has...
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Claire Mawer
Claire defends in all areas of crime and has a developing appellate practice. In the last two years she has appeared in both the CACD and Divisional Court. Prior to being called to the bar Claire...
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Rachel Pain
Rachel is a pupil criminal barrister at Mountford Chambers. She previously worked as a paralegal in the specialist Criminal Appeals team at GT Stewart. She has experience...
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Grace Loncraine
Grace has worked exclusively in criminal defence since she qualified as a solicitor in 2018. In 2020 she joined Commons, a not-for-profit criminal defence firm with a focus on social justice. In 2022 she was asked to join the directorship.
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Georgiana McCarthy
Georgiana is an experienced Chartered Legal Executive who has specialised in criminal appeals for several years. She deals with both appeals against conviction and sentence, and CCRC applications. She takes on both legal aid and private appeals.
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