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5 St Andrew's Hill is a well-regarded set with "barristers who are able to cover everything to the highest level of sophistication" including cases relating to homicide, drugs and human trafficking. The set takes on matters involving serious sexual offences, including those pertaining to historic child abuse, gang-related assaults and rape. Recent cases for the set include prosecuting R v Southwood, a murder case involving new analysis techniques for physical evidence.
Strengths
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"The set has a first rate and longstanding clerking team."
"5 St Andrew's Hill has really good clerks. Senior clerk Gary Norton is great."
"Senior clerk Dean Cook is exceptional. He is always available and solves the greatest of problems with ease."
"The clerking team is very good and chambers director Dave Scothern is particularly easy to deal with."
"The set has a first rate and longstanding clerking team."
"5 St Andrew's Hill has really good clerks. Senior clerk Gary Norton is great."
"Senior clerk Dean Cook is exceptional. He is always available and solves the greatest of problems with ease."
"The clerking team is very good and chambers director Dave Scothern is particularly easy to deal with."
Notable Practitioners
"He is a seasoned prosecutor and can turn his hand to anything."
"He is tactical when deciding on the strategy for a case and is a spectacular advocate who carries the confidence of the court and the client."
"He has the gravitas to deal with a complex case, a great court presence and understands the minutiae of a case. He is strategic, commands the court and sees through issues clearly."
"He pays close attention to detail and effectively presents complex material."
"He is meticulous in preparation and presentation and has an extremely good brain. He is very good with technical issues and a very good advocate."
"John is a very reassuring member of the team and has very attractive manners in court. He is very hardworking and clients like him."
"John is an incredibly bright and hard-working barrister, who gets up to speed even on late instructions very quickly and works very proactively with the solicitor."
"Jose is tactically very intelligent, very impressive and hard-working."
"He is thorough in his preparation and very knowledgeable. He explains issues in layman terms, is extremely user-friendly and clients like him."
"Danielle is sharp, intelligent and personable and clients instantly warm to her. She quickly identifies the issues in a case and proactively pursues lines of enquiry."
"Kevin is calm and unflappable. He has a considerable command of the factual detail of a case and a very nice way with the jury."
"Kevin is reliable in court, very measured and detailed."
"Kevin is very clever and incredibly astute. He is good before a jury and juries like him. He has a great mental dexterity and is legally very forceful."
"Kevin is extremely thorough and has forensic attention to detail."
"He is a very gentle and persuasive advocate and does an excellent job."
"Oliver is incredibly straightforward and pragmatic and he has a brilliant way with clients. He has a way of bringing people to his way of thinking, has good judgement and juries adore him."
"He is superbly well-prepared and deals with clients very well. He creates very good skeleton arguments."