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16/10/2025

Gateshead grooming gang found guilty

Anne Richardson recently finished prosecuting a six handed, seven week case involving a Gateshead grooming gang who sexually assaulted and raped young girls. Anne Richardson was leading Emma Dowling of the Crown Prosecution Service. You can view full media coverage here and here. If you would like to book Anne or any of the Criminal […]

13/10/2025

Liam O’Brien Secures Acquittal

Liam O’Brien was instructed by Amy Lamb of David Gray LLP to represent a male accused of anally raping a teenage girl in 2002. The Accused, now in his forties, was found not guilty by the jury after less than one hour of deliberations. The case notably featured a successful defence application to adduce hearsay […]

09/10/2025

Liam O’Brien Secures Acquittal

Liam O’Brien was instructed by Amy Lamb of David Gray LLP to represent a 20 year old male accused of committing a series of anal and oral rapes on a younger boy when he (the Accused) was just 10 years old. This was a complex and sensitive case which involved both the Complainant and the […]

02/10/2025

Jessica Noble successfully prosecutes “The Birdman of Hartlepool”

Jessica Noble successfully prosecuted a well-known local man, know as The Bird Man of Hartlepool, who appealed his conviction and sentence. He was sentenced to a criminal behaviour order, for feeding birds around Hartlepool which also resulted in attracting rats, following a trial in the Magistrates Court and appealed to Teesside Crown Court. Jessica Noble […]

01/10/2025

The Legal 500 2026 – Chambers are delighted to have over 20 members, from across all disciplines, including Rising Stars, recognised in the 2026 publication

Dere Street Barristers is renowned for its ‘brilliant, dedicated, and persuasive advocates, handling cases of the utmost gravity across all practice areas’. John Elvidge KC was recently instructed to prosecute a case involving five men charged with the attempted murder of a 16-year-old boy in Salford. Peter Makepeace KC represented a father who was charged with murder and […]

01/10/2025

Congratulations to our new tenants

Members of Chambers and staff extend a warm welcome to Hawa Jogi, Jessica Noble, Zackeray Fixter, and Laura Peto who secured tenancy within Chambers after their successful pupillage. Hawa, Jessica and Zackeray under the supervision of Ruth Phillips, Jennie Smith and Crispin Oliver respectively underwent a Common Law Pupillage and Laura, under the supervision of Andrew Walker, specialised in […]

29/09/2025

Dere Street’s Pupil Deck

As you will have seen from our news thread, each week leading up to their start we have been introducing our 5 new pupils to you all, Lidia Beqiraj, Lydia Gibson, Samantha Herman Amelia Taylor and Robert White. Today is the day they all commence their pupillage here in Chambers, Lidia Bequiraj, Lydia Gibson and […]

24/09/2025

Dan Edwards successfully defends £11.5m claim in High Court

Following an accident at a construction site in April 2007, for which liability had been admitted, the Claimant sought to revisit the settlement agreement concluded in 2010, alleging inter alia fraud, misrepresentation and material GDPR breaches on the part of the Employer’s Insurer. The Claimant further disputed whether he had capacity to enter into such an […]

22/09/2025

Dere Street’s Pupil Deck

It won’t be long now until we welcome our 5 new pupils, Samantha Herman, Lydia Gibson, Lidia Beqiraj, Robert White and Amelia Taylor. The pupils will soon be commencing their pupillages on the 29 of September 2025 and each week, leading up to their start, we have been introducing each of them individually. This week […]