Chambers News
Team 4KBW will be running in the Reading half marathon on 1st April 2012.
We are running for a charity called Launchpad Reading, which provides supported housing to disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Reading. We appreciate that you may get many requests to dig deep but we’d be delighted if you’d support us and our chosen charity.
January 2012
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Patrick McMorrow and Isaac Maka have joined chambers.
December 2011
New Tenants: Chambers is delighted that Farah Amin, Peter Collins and Michaella Jacobs have joined chambers.
October 2011
Building on their work in this specialist area Michael Salter of Ely Place, and Chris Bryden of 4KBW this week gave evidence to a Parliamentary Group Inquiry into potential amendments to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997(Click here for more info.
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Lee Harris has joined chambers.
June 2011
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Gwynn Price Rowlands has joined chambers.
Robert Spencer Bernard
Practice Profile
I have appeared regularly in the Crown Court since its establishment both prosecuting and defending. I have defended as Leading Junior in murder and fraud cases. I have prosecuted numerous murders as a junior to Silk and attempted murder as a junior.
I have prosecuted on behalf of the Serious Crime Squad in very substantial drugs cases including one that involved being subject to security vetting so that I could advise on disclosure. I have prosecuted and defended in serious sexual cases (rape, buggery, incest and child pornography). It follows that I have considerable experience in Special Measures (in all its forms) and the use of intermediaries. I have prosecuted and defended in cases of very serious violence, kidnapping, false imprisonment, child cruelty etc.
As a Recorder I have also tried indecency cases involving children, using the video link, as well as such offences as Causing Death by Dangerous Driving and Securicor robbery.
I have appeared frequently in the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, in appeals against conviction as well as against sentence, again acting for both the Respondent and Appellants, including R.v. Allsop & Ors. an authority on RIPA.
I have appeared in the Divisional Court in firearms appeals. I have been instructed regularly by the Solicitor for the Metropolitan Police and by The Chief Constable of Humberside in firearms matters. On the recommendation of the Metropolitan Police I supervised a revision of practice for Humberside Constabulary. Advices I have written have been put before ACPO.
Professional Courses
- JSB Human Rights
- Bar Human Rights
- JSB Criminal Refresher Courses
- JSB Continuing Papers
- CBA - Excellence in Advocacy (2008)
Professional Memberships
- Inner Temple
- Criminal Bar Association
- Midland Circuit.
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