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David Lane QC
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Education
LLB, AKC, King's College London
Appointments
Recorder 1982
Silk 1991
Areas of Practice
Criminal Law
General Common Law
Trade Mark Infringements
Commercial Fraud
Transport Fraud
Areas of Expertise:
Email: clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk
Telephone: 0161 214 1500
Crime
David Lane QC has been a leader in his field of Criminal Law for almost 40 years and has an extensive practice in murder, manslaughter, arson and fraud crimes. He has appeared for the appellant in the leading House of Lords appeals of Beese and Osterman (1973) (extradition, foreign policeman and Judges' Rules); in Forbes (2002) (importation of obscene material); in Johnstone (2003) (Trades Mark Act 1994, statutory defence and burden of proof).
Recent significant cases
R v Weatherby 2008 (Murder)
R v McColl 2006 (Murder)
R v Matthews 2006 (Murder)
R v Arnaouti 2005 (Conspiracy)