FRASER LIVESEY

Call 1992     Lincoln’s Inn

Crime


Business crime and regulatory



LLB (Newcastle)

livesey@deanscourt.co.uk 

Education

Bolton School and Newcastle University

Areas of Practice 

Fraser Livesey specialises in the areas of Crime and Regulatory Crime. He has concentrated in these areas throughout his career and his practice involves both defence and prosecution work, having long experience in both the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal.

 

In the criminal field he has been instructed in large scale conspiracies to supply large quantities of class A drugs over a wide area and offences of laundering the significant financial proceeds thereof. He has appeared in many cases of serious violence (regularly including murder and attempted murder), armed robbery, blackmail, kidnapping, fraud (including excise frauds, tobacco smuggling and professional clients), sexual offences arson and cases involving firearms.

 

His work in Regulatory Crime includes Health and Safety Executive prosecutions, Coroner’s Inquests and local authority prosecutions, having acted on behalf of commercial clients in these areas.


Professional Association

Criminal Bar Association

Notable Cases

R -v- Campbell and Etheridge

Two defendant murder case

R -v- Bottomley

Successful defence of defendant charged with attempted murder who had no recollection of the incident

R -v- M

Junior counsel in successful prosecution of multi-complainant child sexual abuse case over several months leading to hearing of fresh evidence in a three day Court of Appeal hearing

HSE -v- MacAdam Ltd

Prosecution following an explosion in the workplace seriously injuring three people

Bradford Coroner’s Court Re S Allen

Representing company that manufactured equipment involved in fatal accident

Hunter -v- Cumbria County Council

Prosecution under Registered Homes regulations. Eight day hearing trial and judicial review to the Divisional Court

R -v- Etherington & others

Two month trial of tobacco fraud involving nationwide investigation

R -v- Tweedie

Armed robbery of bookmakers with a sawn-off shotgun

Operation Rebound

Six week voir dire to successfully exclude evidence in a large scale conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.

R -v- Smith & others

Successful defence of man of good character, alleged to be central to distribution of large quantities of heroin and cocaine

R -v- W

Historical allegations of rape and sexual abuse, defendant having significant psychiatric issues

R -v- Parkinson

Court of Appeal following Attorney-General’s Reference on the issue of the dangerous offender provisions

R -v- Smith

Successful defence of professional man indicted with arson with intent to endanger life

R -v- Buchan

Attempted murder, attack with an axe causing serious head injuries

R -v- Hamid & others

Successful defence in serious public order incident