Star Individuals
Star Individuals
Band 1
Band 1
About
Provided by Adrian Darbishire KC
Practice Areas
Adrian Darbishire specialises in the defence of individuals and corporations charged with offences which arise from the conduct of their work. Under that broad heading, the three principal areas of his practice are commercial crime (fraud, bribery, money laundering etc.), health and safety and regulatory breaches (corporate and gross negligence manslaughter, HSWA offences, professional misconduct and environmental crime) and the defence of private prosecutions. He has featured in many high-profile cases and is widely recognized as one of the leading barristers in the country within these fields. Examples include, in Fraud: Barclays LIBOR, Tesco, Serco, Akle/Unaoil (on appeal), ENRC and Tom Hayes (on appeal to CACD and Supreme Court). Health and Safety/Manslaughter cases include Hatfield Rail Crash, M5 Fireworks Crash, Grenfell, Dr Garg, Isle of Man Anaesthetists and Auriol Grey (on appeal). He has successfully defended many private prosecutions, including in the leading Divisional Court cases of Kay, Boris Johnson, Haigh and Morjaria, as well as many other cases which did not reach that stage.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Joint head of chambers Adrian Darbishire KC is a highly popular silk known for his winning approach in white-collar crime cases. According to commentators, he is excellent on the paperwork and has strong advocacy skills. They further praise him for his lateral thinking and superb interpersonal skills. He acts for high-level executives and professionals in all areas of fraud and financial crime, and has worked on marketing manipulation and accounting fraud cases. Darbishire is further valued for his advice to corporates on a range of financial crime matters.
Joint head of chambers Adrian Darbishire KC is a highly popular silk known for his winning approach in white-collar crime cases. According to commentators, he is excellent on the paperwork and has strong advocacy skills. They further praise him for his lateral thinking and superb interpersonal skills. He acts for high-level executives and professionals in all areas of fraud and financial crime, and has worked on marketing manipulation and accounting fraud cases. Darbishire is further valued for his advice to corporates on a range of financial crime matters.
Joint head of chambers Adrian Darbishire KC is a highly popular silk known for his winning approach in white-collar crime cases. According to commentators, he is excellent on the paperwork and has strong advocacy skills. They further praise him for his lateral thinking and superb interpersonal skills. He acts for high-level executives and professionals in all areas of fraud and financial crime, and has worked on marketing manipulation and accounting fraud cases. Darbishire is further valued for his advice to corporates on a range of financial crime matters.
Adrian Darbishire KC of QEB Hollis Whiteman is a renowned practitioner who represents companies facing prosecution for corporate manslaughter. His other areas of expertise include fraud, professional misconduct and cases relating to health and safety breaches.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Adrian is primus inter pares for jury advocacy and just plain advocacy – you want him on your side and not on the other side."
"Adrian is super-bright and very down-to-earth. He is excellent, charming in court, and a really good person to lead a team in tricky cases."
"Adrian is absurdly clever and astonishingly good on his feet. He simply loves his subject and it shows. He is a consummate communicator, able to set clients and the court at ease and earn their trust."
"Adrian is known for his health and safety work. He is tactically sharp, very capable, very successful and comfortable to work with."
"Adrian is exemplary. He is a leader in his field and he's so articulate. He is so good at drafting, and the way his mind operates is phenomenal."
"Adrian is a star performer in everything he does."
"Adrian has been excellent. He has come from a corporate crime background and inserted himself into the health and safety sector with relative ease. Clients love him."
"Adrian is primus inter pares for jury advocacy and just plain advocacy – you want him on your side and not on the other side."
"Adrian is super-bright and very down-to-earth. He is excellent, charming in court, and a really good person to lead a team in tricky cases."
"Adrian is absurdly clever and astonishingly good on his feet. He simply loves his subject and it shows. He is a consummate communicator, able to set clients and the court at ease and earn their trust."
"Adrian is known for his health and safety work. He is tactically sharp, very capable, very successful and comfortable to work with."
"Adrian is exemplary. He is a leader in his field and he's so articulate. He is so good at drafting, and the way his mind operates is phenomenal."
"Adrian is a star performer in everything he does."
"Adrian has been excellent. He has come from a corporate crime background and inserted himself into the health and safety sector with relative ease. Clients love him."
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