Kristian Garsed

Areas of Practice

I receive instructions principally for criminal work but I also undertake work involving personal injury, landlord and tenant, social security, licensing and contract.

Prosecution Experience

I prosecute frequently in the Magistrates’ Courts and have experience in prosecuting a range of different offences including; theft, obtaining property by deception, possession and use of false instruments, common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, sexual assault, harassment, public order offences, driving offences and drug offences. I also prosecute on behalf of the National Probation Service dealing with allegations of breaches of community orders.

Defence Experience

I regularly defend clients facing allegations of theft and dishonesty (including offences under the new Identity Cards Act 2006) and cases prosecuted by Trading Standards, motoring offences, violence and public order offences (including racially and religiously aggravated offences of these types) and possession of drugs. I frequently defend young people and those with language difficulties.

Civil Law Experience

I have successfully undertaken many small claims trials involving road traffic accidents (with and without an element of personal injury) and contract (including Credit Finance Agreements). I often represent children and their litigation friends at infant settlement approval hearings and have represented applicants and respondents at a number of final charging order hearings. I am instructed by both applicants and respondents at hearings relating to orders for possession (both mortgage and rent). I have experience of a number of appeals in the Social Security Appeals Tribunal challenging decisions relating to disability living allowance and incapacity benefit and also in the Unified Appeals Tribunal in relation to child maintenance payments. I have advised on licensing and have represented clients before the licensing sub-committee.

Education & Qualifications

1999 - 2002 University of Southampton.

BA English Literature and Film Studies (Critical Theory) 2:1

2002 – 2003 University of Kent, Canterbury.

MA Film Studies (Critical Theory). Postgraduate Merit.

2004 – 2005 BPP Law School, Waterloo, London.

Graduate Diploma in Law (Law Conversion)

Commendation

2005– 2006 BPP Law School, Holborn, London. Bar Vocational Course

Very Competent

2006 Called to the Bar by Inner Temple.

Professional Courses

LAMDA Presentational Skills, 2005

Inner Temple BVC Students Advocacy Training Day, 2005

No Place to Die? : Deaths In Custody, 2006

Inner Temple Pupils Advocacy Training Weekend, 2006

Forensic Accountancy, 2007

Professional Memberships

Inner Temple

Criminal Bar Association

 
Interests

Skiing, tennis, badminton, 5 a – side football, hill walking, fishing, chess and backgammon, galleries and museums, cinema, music, reading and cooking.