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Richard Clews

Richard is a member of the Criminal, and Regulatory Crime teams.

Mr Clews is a sensitive and experienced advocate who specialises in criminal cases involving allegations of bad driving particularly where either serious injury or death has resulted. He is a Grade 4 prosecutor and therefore acts for both the prosecution and defence. He is regularly instructed by defence solicitors acting on behalf of insurance company policyholders in all cases of this type including causing death by dangerous driving, causing death by careless driving whilst unfit through drink or drugs, dangerous driving, and careless or inconsiderate driving. He appears in such cases in both Crown and Magistrates' Courts throughout England and Wales and conferences can be arranged at any venue to suit both the solicitor and client as well as any expert witness who is instructed. He also very often represents the same clients at inquests in those cases where a death has resulted.

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Areas of Practice:

All Criminal and Coroner's Courts

Background:

Stonyhurst College, Lancashire

Kingston University, LLB Hons

1st 6 Chambers of Bruce Mauleverer QC

4 Pump Court, Temple EC4 Jeremy Nicholason

2nd 6 Chambers of Stuart Black

14 Grays Inn Square Glenn Brasse

Professional memberships and Significant Appointments:

Called to the Bar July 1986 Grays Inn

Criminal Bar Association

North Eastern Circuit

Appointed Deputy District Judge in 2006

Notable cases:

R v Liley - Fraud

R v Wahid Hussain - Death by Dangerous Driving

R v Wrigley - Rape

R v Munawar Sajjad - Court of Appeal.  Conviction quashed on the basis of failure to leave the alternative of careless driving to the jury.  Convicted of careless driving at retrial

R v Callaghan - Preston Crown Court.  Unusually, submission of no case to answer at the end of the defence evidence upheld on the grounds there was no rational basis for the jury to reject the experts defence evidence

R v Ormiston - Northallerton Magistrates' Court.  Careless driving dismissed on the basis that a sudden mechanical fault could not be ruled out despite there being no direct evidence of it