Jose Olivares-Chandler

Practice Areas

Jose is often the first port of call for both defence firms and the CPS in sexual cases of the utmost seriousness and sensitivity.

Jose defends and prosecutes in criminal cases involving the most serious allegations including murder, sexual offences, violent offences, firearms offences, drugs offences, fraud and confiscation proceedings.

He is a Grade 3 prosecutor on the Advocate Rape Panel. He is an expert trial advocate who goes the extra mile for his clients.

In 2024, Jose was sought-after counsel following numerous successfully-defended and prosecuted high-profile trials.

“A wonderful man whose writing skills and legal arguments are second to none. We go to him for his writing ability and anything that requires an analytical brain.”

Chambers & Partners 2023: Crime.

Career

Jose read law at UCL and was called to the Bar in 2000.

Professional Memberships

CBA, SE Circuit.

Publications

• Advisor to Dragonfly TV productions (‘One born every minute’, ‘The Job Centre’, ‘The Hotel’) on a documentary series about members of the public sitting on a mock murder trial.

• Advisor to CBBC on the second series of ‘All Over the Workplace’ (which takes children aged 8-13 from around the UK and gives them the opportunity to try out their dream jobs) in relation to criminal courts.

• 3 articles for Lexis Nexis on R v Twist (Hearsay), R v Guthrie (jury tampering) and the CrPR 2011.

• Main speaker at the Legal Aid Conference 2006 at the Law Society on Evidence of Bad Character and Hearsay.