ELIZABETH DUDLEY-JONES
Call 1997 Inner Temple
LLB (Hull)
dudley-jones@deanscourt.co.uk
- Professional Discipline
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Regulatory
Professional Associations
Criminal Bar Association
Member of the Northern Circuit
GMC Panel of Advocates
Prosecutor for the CPS (Category 3)
Education
Kings School, Macclesfield and University of Hull Law (LLB)
Areas of Practice
Crime
Since 1997, Elizabeth Dudley-Jones has practised Crime, Regulatory Crime and Professional Discipline. Her general criminal work includes undertaking cases of all levels of serious sexual offending including rape, historic rapes and associated sexual offences; fraud and other dishonesty offences, drug offences including significant conspiracies, involving very large amounts of money and drugs; money laundering; and all offences of violence up to and including murder. She has represented numerous professionals charged with employment fraud. Her practice is equally split between defence and prosecution work and she also prosecutes for local authorities and for the Crown Prosecution Service at Category 3 level.
Her particular specialism is in criminal cases involving a variety of mental health issues, representing those with significant mental health problems and also vulnerable adults and children who suffer with learning disabilities, such as Asbergers Syndrome, ADHD and Downs Syndrome.
Her Regulatory Crime practice includes regularly acting for the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Civil Aviation Authority. She has prosecuted the entire range of cases at the GMC which include misconduct including clinical misconduct, conviction, deficient professional performance and regulatory findings from abroad. She is happy to undertake any defence cases in professional discipline for Health Professions Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Dental Council, British Orthopaedic Association, or any other professionals, such as Police Officers or Prison Officers.
Significant Cases
R -v- Clive Saunders and others (Birmingham Crown Court). Defence Junior. Acted for principal conspirator. Nine month trial for a £68 million VAT Carousel fraud and money laundering conspiracy involving seven defendants and a “supergrass” defendant. Criminal Justice Act 1988 confiscation proceedings amounting to £88 million, very high value assets and hidden funds, receivership and High Court restraint proceedings – ongoing since 2005.
R -v- Michael Brookes (Preston Crown Court) Defence Junior. Acted for 17 year old accused of murder of his paedophilic abuser since he was 11 years old. Acquitted of murder. 7 years imprisonment reduced to 5 years imprisonment on Appeal. Now a reported authority on whether dismemberment is an aggravating feature in manslaughter - R. v Michael Brooks, CLW/03/30/10, [2004] 1 Cr.App.R.(S.) 315(53), The Times, July 30, 2003, C.A. ([2003] EWCA Crim. 2291)
R -v- Sharif Mohammed (Manchester Crown Court) Defence Junior. Acted for the principal conspirator in a large scale conspiracy to launder the proceeds of a conspiracy to supply £4 million cocaine in the Manchester area.
Sexual Cases
R -v- R (Bolton Crown Court) Acted for a 19 year old with severe Asbergers Syndrome who was charged with oral, vaginal and anal rape of his 5 year old cousin over a significant period.
R -v- Paul D (Bolton Crown Court) Defending step father indicted with rape of young step daughter. Acquitted following trial.
R v Anthony M (Manchester Crown Court). Acted for father who admitted raping his daughter over a ten year period.
R v Gerald Butler (Preston Crown Court) Case of autrefois convict for a man charged with rape of his daughter. Crown offered no evidence.
Violent Cases
R -v- K W (Bolton Crown Court) – defended professional man charged with section 18 wounding – severe injuries following one punch to victim. Non custodial sentence imposed.
R -v- Zuba Natha (Bolton Crown Court) – defended taxi driver charged with section18 wounding on a youth throwing stones at his taxi – non custodial sentence imposed.
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/districtnews/districtatog/8807213.Suspended_jail_sentence_for_taxi_driver/
R -v- David Kay (Bolton Crown Court) – defended man charged with section 18 wounding having kicked ex wife in face shattering her jaw. Short custodial sentence imposed.
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/crime/s/1317679_thug_shattered_exlovers_jaw_with_kick_in_face
Others
R v MS (Bolton Crown Court) - Defence of a former special needs school teacher suffering with bi polar affective disorder charged with cultivation of a large quantity of cannabis acting under duress from others as a result of his mental disorder. Case not proceeded with by Crown as a result of representations made.
R v MA (Manchester Crown Court) Defence of a woman of good character charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine and conspiracy to launder proceeds of the sale of cocaine. 6 defendants.
GMC v Dr C - GMC prosecution of a family GP who ordered the administration of a fatal dose of insulin to commit euthanasia for a 90 year old woman who had gynaecological cancer. Prosecution of a very sensitive subject which was reported in the Daily Telegraph and GP’s local newspaper.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6156832/Family-doctor-asked-for-patient-to-get-lethal-injection.html
GMC v Dr Kenneth Bartley - prosecution of a GP charged with failing to pay his staff pension contributions and submission of a false invoice over £50,000– involving in excess of 15 witnesses. Erased from medical register.
http://www.nhsonline.net/news/article.asp?UId=4057
http://www.birminghampost.net/dailybulletin/2010/07/25/edgbaston-gp-struck-off-for-siphoning-off-staff-pensions-65233-26929151/
GMC v Dr H– prosecution of a Consultant Plastic Surgeon charged with poor performance in cosmetic surgery (breast surgery) on a patient. Suspended from medical register.
GMC v Dr B– GMC prosecution of a anaesthetist who, knowing or suspecting a feeding tube was incorrectly placed into the patients lungs rather than his stomach, ordered nurses to commence feeding down the tube causing damage to the lungs and to a vulnerable patient. Doctor later deliberately and dishonestly falsified the patients’ medical records to alter what he had infact done. Nurses photocopied originals suspecting he was acting oddly and presented him with the original notes against the altered notes. Reported in local newspapers. Suspended for 12 months
GMC v Dr A - GMC prosecution of a pharmaceutical director doctor who seriously sexually assaulted a vulnerable unwell work colleague who was taken to his in hotel bedroom in America whilst on a business trip in order to medically observe her well being. Reported in Daily Telegraph. Erased from the medical register
GMC v Dr Sengupta – GMC prosecution of a junior doctor who lied to two Deaneries about her professional competencies when she had been removed from a training scheme for concerns about her deficient professional performance. Later also dishonestly assumed primary authorship of a research paper. Deficient professional performance in obstetrics and gynaecology – erased from the medical register