Emma Kutner has recently secured acquittals for three defendants in separate trials involving allegations of rape and serious sexual offences.
You can read more here at https://t.co/wrx145hJW4
Alex Stein, leading Emma Kutner, prosecuted the murder trial of Codey Nolan, convicted of murdering Hassan Bousanguar after a brutal 2024 assault.
Following a rare GBH-to-murder case and s.74 PACE ruling, Nolan received life with a 23-year minimum term.
https://t.co/Iqqbls8OeV
A few days ago, David Lammy wrote a letter to the Justice Committee answering some questions about his proposals to restrict jury trial.
This is a welcome step.
It’s a telling letter.
But not for the reasons you might think.
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2BR is delighted to have won the awards for both the Crime Set of the Year and Financial Crime Junior of the Year (Alastair Smith) at the @Legal500 Bar Awards 2025.
We were also shortlisted in 7 other categories.
You can read more at https://t.co/NGx7tNTgcJ
#legal500barawards
20% of courtrooms are closed today. Worth remembering that when people suggest restricting jury trials. Juries aren’t the problem. They aren’t causing the delays. They aren’t halting justice.
They can’t get in the door.
Any competent government would have seen this problem hurtling towards them for months. And yet. Here we all are. Asking guilty offenders to queue nicely and wait a little longer for a prison bed to become available so that they can then be punished.
Dismal. Utterly dismal.
Keir Monteith KC of the Garden Ct Crime Team secures half time acquittal for joint enterprise murder.
Keir Monteith represented the client, leading Emma Kutner (@EmmaKutner) of @2BedfordRow and was instructed by Tommy Polycarpou of Faradays Solicitors.
https://t.co/o1nnTOYv3b
Last week my trial was adjourned because there was no heating in the court. Today 2/4 courts at St Albans are not sitting due to lack of heating.
@CEOofHMCTS and @DominicRaab need to get their house in order before they start criticising barristers for causing a backlog.
Today, criminal barristers begin indefinite strike action, in response to years of government cuts to legal aid and defunding of the criminal justice system.
Here is a post I wrote giving the truth behind the government spin: https://t.co/dYMoimHDiC