JANET IRONFIELD

Call 1992     Gray’s Inn

Crime

Business Crime & Regulatory



BA (Oxon)

ironfield@deanscourt.co.uk 

Education

Bolton School and St. Hilda’s College, Oxford (BA)

Areas of Practice

Crime

Janet Ironfield is principally a Preston-based practitioner, instructed to prosecute and defend in a wide range of serious cases, including murder, robbery, sexual offences, offences of violence and drugs conspiracies

International Work

Janet has also contested trials in the Falkland Islands and in March 2010, Defended a Chilean national (non-English speaking) charged with sexual and violent offences against his partner during a protracted 'domestic' incident. The case involved disputed issues of fact and legal argument in relation to the definition of 'sexual touching'. The resulting acquittal was not overturned on a subsequent Appeal. 

Professional Associations

Criminal Bar Association

Notable Cases

R -v- Wilson (Murder)
R -v- Tait (Murder)
Operations Rebound, Rattler and River (Large scale class A and B drugs conspiracies. Significant evidence successfully excluded)
R -v- Mace (multi-child complainant; sexual offences)
R -v- Berry (Commercial production of controlled drugs/making indecent images of children)
R -v- Carter (Armed robbery of bookmakers)
R -v- F (13 year old boy accused of rape of 9 year old boy)
R -v- J. Cancino Contreras (International Law - Falklands)