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Timothy Raggatt QC

Year of call: 1972 (Silk 1993)

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Practice Profile

I practise in all areas of criminal law but particularly murder, serious fraud, drug related offences, arson and serious sexual offences cases. I am also authorised to try all Serious Sexual Offences in my capacity as a Recorder.

I have appeared in a large number of complex and serious trials in the West Midlands and South East and in particular has been at the very forefront of most of the leading cases involving “Black on Black” gun crime in the West Midlands.

I have also played a central part as Leading Counsel in the recent evolution of the law of evidence on key witness protection issues such as anonymity and special protection measures advising the police in the Midlands on overall policy as well as on a case by case basis.

During recent years I have been instructed all over the country in centres such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London. I prosecute for the CPS in the Midlands and Thames Valley areas and act for the defence on a national basis. As well as the above I also have an extensive referral practice in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.

Through the cases that I have conducted I have built a specialist knowledge in mobile phone technology and cell site analysis as well as DNA.

Professional Courses

Human Rights Act 1998 Sexual Offences Act 2003 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Vulnerable witnesses Expert Witnesses Criminal Justice Act 2003
Forensic Accounting International Criminal Court Criminal Procedure Rules

Professional Memberships

  • Inner Temple Midland Circuit Criminal Bar Association
  • South Eastern Circuit Door Tenant, St Philips Chambers, Birmingham.

Leisure Activities

  • Golf, Scuba Diving, Bridge, Snooker
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Case Profile

  • R v Sellick & Sellick [2005]
    2 Cr.App R 15
     A gangland shooting that has fundamentally altered the law involving vulnerable or otherwise intimidated witnesses and has become THE leading case on this topic.
  • R v Ellis & Others
    [The “New years Day” Shootings of Letitia Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis]
    A case with a fundamental impact on all witness Protection issues.
  • R v Cannan
    The Shirley Banks Murder and the man who remains an Important suspect in the Suzie Lamplugh enquiry.
  • R. v Cotter & Others [2002]
    2 Cr App R 29
    One of the three key leading authorities on offences of Perverting the Course of Justice. The case concerned an alleged “racist conspiracy” surrounding Ashia Hansen and other black British Olympic athletes.