DAVID FISH QC

Call 1973     Inner Temple
Queen’s Counsel 1997

fish@deanscourt.co.uk

Education

Ashton-Under-Lyne Grammar School
LLB - London School of Economics

Appointments

1993 - Recorder
1997 - Queens Counsel
2005 - Non-Executive Chairman of 32Red Plc

Professional Associations 

Criminal Bar Association
Member of the Northern Circuit



What the Directories Say

' is visible in licensing work as well as serious crime.'
Chambers UK, 2012
'extremely popular senior'
- Legal 500 2011
"a serious opponent for anyone however great their standing."
Chambers UK 2011
'...a very tough advocate with real style'
- Legal 500 2010
'...circuit heavyweight'
- Legal 500, 2009
‘A street-fighting style – you give him the ammunition and he’ll fire it very accurately.’
– Chambers UK, 2009
‘Highly talented and personable’
– Legal 500, 2008
‘A fantastic advocate...Imbues in the client the feeling that everything will be all right on his watch’
– Chambers UK, 2008
‘A thorough and polished brief’
– Chambers UK, 2007

Legal 500 

 

 

 



Areas of Practice

 

Licensing, Betting, Gaming, and Sports Law

Sports Personalities Recently Represented

Regina -v- Jonathan Woodgate - Defence of a professional footballer charged with S18/Affray
Regina -v- Alan Smart - Defence of a professional footballer charged with S47 Assault
Regina-v- Lee Hughes - Defence of a footballer charged with causing death by dangerous driving
Regina -v- Ravel Morrison - Defence of a professional footballer on two occasions when charged with witness intimidation and criminal damage.
Regina -v- Alan Berry - Defence of a Racehorse trainer charged in alleged race fixing scandal
Regina -v- Bernard Wharfe - Defence of professional Jockey on the charge of causing death by dangerous driving
Regina v- Chedwyn Evans - Ongoing Defence of professional footballer on charge of rape
Ronnie O'Sullivan - Advisory
Gibraltar Regulatory Authority and Betfred (Gilbraltar) - betting dispute with a leading racehorse trainer - Advisory

 

Professional Discipline

Appearances before various professional disciplinary bodies representing police officers, professional jockeys, bookmakers and employees. Representation includes Alan Berry (Racehorse trainer), Darren Williams (Jockey), Terry Myers (Bookmaker), Newton (Bookmaker), Stephen Duffy (Solicitor) and numerous police officers before their various disciplinary bodies. 

 

Crime

 

Notable Recent Cases:- 

Fraud

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

Murder

David Fish QC has appeared in more than 100 homicide cases, including:
 
Regina v Paul Seddon –  Accidental Crossfire-Shooting of 5 year old Dillon Hull        
Regina v Thai Anh Nham – 10 Week Triad Triple Murder Trial 
Regina v Andrew Synott – Gangland Murder 
Regina v John Jarvis - Triple Murder of own wife and children due to pathological hatred of Smokers 
Regina v Angela Walmsley - Murder by scalding of Husband 
Regina v Kiernan McKerney – Avenham Race Murder 
Regina v Michael Bamford – 2008 Murder of wife by husband committed in Zimbabwe, tried in UK
Regina -v- Thompson (& Mendez) - Leading case on intent in joint enterprise murder.

 

Other 

Regina v Kevin O’Rourke –  Large scale conspiracy to Import Class A drugs 
Regina v Ivan Mazour – Death by Dangerous Driving Defence of son of Russian Billionaire 
Regina v Leo Joiner - Death by Dangerous Driving Defence 
Regina v Brenda Emerson – Double Death by Dangerous Driving Defence

Mr Fish QC has appeared in numerous cases involving death by dangerous driving and cases involving all aspects of Road Traffic law 

 

Health and Safety/Regulatory

Mr Fish QC undertakes all aspects of the above fields and was formerly Standing Counsel to the London Borough of Bexley on Health and Safety/Regulatory matters

Notable Cases Include

HSE -v- Centec - Appeared for the defence in a Health and Safety prosecution of a teenage trespasser.
Blackpool Borough Council -v- Smith and Beauketty - Noise Pollution case.
Blackpool Borough Counsel -v- Gillett - Planning Appeal.
R -v- AMEC - Defence of Plc in noise pollution case.
Lancashire County Council  -v- Belmont Homes - Appeal for defence in application to revoke care home licence.
National Rivers Ass -v- Field Farm Eggs - Defence of a factory farmer polluting a river.
HSE -v- Wallis - Appeared for defence in prosecution of the operator of a dangerous fairground ride
London Borough of Bexley -v- Erith Haulage - Prosecution for lorry overloading on a vast scale.
Regina -v- Richard Read - Defence of a large haulage firm in pollution case
Bury Borough Council - James Halstead - Appeared for defence of Plc in noise pollution case
Rotherham Borough Council -v- TARMAC  - appeared for the defence of a public company for large scale supply of faulty roofing materials.
Blackpool Borough Council -v- Baguley -v- Breach of planning regulations.
Regina -v- Cawood - Health and Safety prosecution of a farm worker killed whilst working in a slurry tank
Regina -v- Tank  Clean - Appeared for the defence of a company alleged to have caused a major explosion due to the escape of petroleum.

Also numerous appearances in cases brought under the Trade Descriptions Act

Employment Law

Unfair dismissal and disciplinary work