DAVID FISH QC

Call 1973     Inner Temple
Queen’s Counsel 1997

Crime

Licensing, Betting and Gaming

All aspects of licensing, betting and gaming work undertaken.
Instructions accepted from the Isle of Man and Gibraltar.
Non-Executive Chairman of 32Red Plc, an online gaming company based in Gibraltar.

Professional Discipline

Many police officers represented and also represented Alan Berry (trainer) and Darren Williams (jockey) at their disciplinary hearing before the Jockey Club. 

 

LLB (London School of Economics)

fish@deanscourt.co.uk

‘A thorough and polished brief’
– Chambers UK, 2007
‘A fantastic advocate...Imbues in the client the feeling that everything will be all right on his watch’
– Chambers UK, 2008
‘Highly talented and personable’
– Legal 500, 2008
‘A street-fighting style – you give him the ammunition and he’ll fire it very accurately.’
– Chambers UK, 2009
'...cicruit heavyweight'
- Legal 500, 2009 
'...a very tough advocate with real style'
- Legal 500 2010

Individual

Appointment

Recorder 1993
Queens Counsel 1997

Professional Associations :  

Criminal Bar Association                                               
Member of the Northern Circuit 

Notable Recent Cases:- 

Fraud 
Regina v Lopera Pacheo – Operation Cowhead (2000) Bonded Warehouse Diversion Fraud  
Regina v Stuart Greene – (2001) Trading Standards Mobile Phone Fraud 
Regina v Robert Bone – (2002) Charity Fraud committed by serving Local Councillor 
Regina v Alan Hodgkinson – (2002) SFO Fraudulent Trading 
Regina v Kelly & Hilton (2004) Large Scale Solicitors Fraud 
Regina v Clive Saunders – Operation Shepherd (2005) MTIC (Mobile Phone Carousel Fraud)  
Regina v Christopher Sanders – Operation Emersed (2005/06) MTIC (Mobile Phone Carousel Fraud)  
Regina v John Heppenstall – Operation Fulcrum (2005) Bonded Warehouse Diversion Fraud 
Regina v Alan Berry  (2007) Horse race-fixing scandal 
Regina v John Byrne – (2008) Commercial Diesel Laundering/Duty Evasion Fraud  

Murder 
Regina v Paul Seddon – 1998 Bolton Gangland Accidental Crossfire-Shooting of Dillon Hull        
Regina v Thai Anh Nham – 2001 10 Week Triad Triple Murder Trial 
Regina v Andrew Synott – 2002 Gangland Murder 
Regina v John Jarvis -2003 Triple Murder of own wife and children due to pathological hatred of Smokers 
Regina v Angela Walmsley - 2006 Murder by scalding of Husband 
Regina v Kiernan McKerney – 2007 Avenham Race Murder 
Regina v Michael Bamford – 2008 Murder of wife by husband committed in Zimbabwe, tried in UK 

Other 
Regina v Kevin O’Rourke – 2000/01 Large scale conspiracy to Import Class A drugs 
Regina v Jonathan Woodgate – 2001 S.18 and Affray Defence of Professional Footballer 
Regina v Alan Smart - 2003 S.47 Defence of Professional Footballer
Regina v Lee Hughes – 2004 Death by Dangerous Driving Defence of Professional Footballer  
HSE v Centec – 2005 Fatal HSE Prosecution 
Regina v Ivan Mazour – 2006 Death by Dangerous Driving Defence of son of Russian Billionaire 
Regina v Leo Joiner -2006 Death by Dangerous Driving Defence 
Regina v Brenda Emerson – 2006 Double Death by Dangerous Driving Defence