Adrian Waterman QC. Year of Call: 1988 Year of Silk: Solicitors told Chambers & Partners:

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1 Adrian Waterman QC Year of Call: 1988 Year of Silk: 2006 Profile Solicitors told Chambers & Partners: He s client-focused in all areas of work. He is a totally safe pair of hands, committed to his clients, works the jury and judge really well, and achiees fantastic results. He is wonderful to work with. He s probably the cleerest barrister I e eer met, he s super bright. In one sexual offence case, he managed to come up with more legal arguments than I thought were possible. He s exceptionally good. He was outstanding in a difficult case." His legal analysis is ery sophisticated, but he also manages to speak to juries in a way that eokes 1 of 6

2 sympathy and understanding. My colleagues hae worked with him on financial crime. They say he is outstanding, has a fantastic eye for detail and is ery good to work with. Adrian has a reputation for being skilled in dealing with legally and factually complex issues, whilst at the same time being tactically astute and presenting een the most difficult case attractiely to a jury. Whether in a criminal or a ciil case he brings the same skills to bear each and eery time, no matter who the client. He has represented clients from the most forgotten to the most high profile. Throughout his career at the Bar, Adrian has appeared in cases which hae taken place in the glare of publicity, and which hae therefore required the additional sensitiity that this requires, such as the case of Leeds United Footballers ( Woodgate and Bowyer), the first eer trial to be filmed by the BBC from its inception ( Blackstone and Morrison), the trial of Boy George ( O Dowd), and the first eer double-jeopardy trial ( Dunlop). His skill in handling sensitie cases is frequently employed in cases inoling sexual allegations, including historical and high profile allegations, such as Operation Yewtree (the inestigations flowing from the publicity surrounding Jimmy Saile). His ability to master and control large amounts of detail is demonstrated in his fraud work, which has included not just mainstream fraud, but also other cases inoling the alleged manipulation of information, such as election frauds. He also has considerable experience and skill in both ciil and criminal cases inoling complex expert eidence, including gross negligence manslaughter, inquests and cases inoling state agents and national security. He is deeloped etted. His wider criminal and ciil work includes adising indiiduals and corporations at an early stage of proceedings. These hae included those inoled in particularly troublesome areas such journalism. Adrian accepts instructions under the Bar's Public Access scheme. He is a member of the Editorial Adisory Board of Blackstone's Criminal Practice (OUP) and is a lecturer and contributor to legal journals. In Legal 500 (2010): "Adrian Waterman QC has an outstanding legal brain and is a 2 of 6

3 commanding and confident adocate". In Legal 500 (2012): "Adrian Waterman QC is frequently instructed in serious and complex matters". In 2013, he was described as: a commanding and confident adocate. Articles and Lectures Abusing a Stay for a Grant, Coert Policing eiew, 1 October Bad Character: Feeling Our Way One Year On. [2006] Crim L 614. An article with Tina Dempster, reiewing of the principles of admissibility of bad character eidence. Be the Expert You Are. Adances in Psychiatric Treatment [2008]. An article on the role of the expert witness. Lectured to senior journalists of a national broadsheet newspaper on the legal implications of undercoer journalism [2009]. Prosecution Appeals Too Much of a Good Thing? [2010] Crim L 169. An article with Professor Daid Ormerod and udi Fortson QC, reiewing the proisions as to prosecution appeals. Lack of esponsibility. (Blackstone s Bulletin) An article addressing the iniquity of the unique common law imposition of the legal burden of proof being placed upon the accused where the accused raises insanity. A member of the Editorial Adisory Board for Blackstone s Criminal Practice (OUP). Homicide and elated Grae Offences Examples of Homicide Murphy and others. A multi-handed, high-profile, racist murder of an Asian taxi drier. Milakoic. Defence of a profoundly deaf social worker for the "mercy-killing" murder of his seriously ill baby son. 3 of 6

4 Walsh. Defending in a double murder of the accused s partner and her daughter, with bodily mutilation and complex psychiatric issues. Hunt. A woman charged with murder and section 5 of the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004, relating to her baby, inoling a two week abuse argument. (One of the recent notorious Doncaster cases.) Mendez. A joint enterprise murder. Complex post-ahman issues. Subsequently taken to the Court of Appeal and widely reported. Operation Amarillo City. City. A case of attempted murder, inoling allegations of police officers deliberately listening to and iewing priileged material in the possession of a solicitor defendant. Doherty. A woman charged with murdering her ex-police officer partner. Operation Pencader. A high profile multi-handed, joint enterprise murder of an Asian shopkeeper in Huddersfield. Inquest touching the death of Jackie Fisher. epresenting a mining company in an inquest and ciil claim relating to the death of an employee and the ensuing ciil claim for damages. Smith. A man charged with murdering his infant, in which the injuries were bilateral, complex skull fractures, and which inoled ery complex medical issues. Kemp. A woman charged with the joint murder of her infant whilst she and he were detained in hospital, based entirely on complex medical opinion. Boadi. Defence of one of 10 defendants charged with a joint enterprise murder, inoling difficult issues of joint enterprise. Foster. Defence of a man charged jointly with another for the murder of a church organist on Christmas Ee. egulatory and Financial Crime Examples of egulatory and Financial Crime Webster. A four month trial of nurse charged with large scale fraud in relation to theft of controlled drugs from hospital. Lane. SFO prosecution of fraudulent asset stripping. Donnygate. Many cases arising out of local councillor corruption in Doncaster. Norris. A case depending on the analysis of hundreds of thousands of pages of medical records. G. Instructed post-coniction to appeal in a case of alleged fraud and corruption inoling hundreds of millions of pounds and oerseas politicians. M. Ongoing adice to one of the suspects during a huge SFO inestigation into international commercial corruption. P. Adice on the potential criminal implications of a compromise of a commercial dispute. Disciplinary hearings inoling arious professions, such as the police, professional sports and health professionals. Other Serious Criminal Offences Examples of Sexual Allegations 4 of 6

5 McG. A young professional charged with date rape. Simpson. A cold case prosecution for rape. A. A businessman in the City, charged with date rape. S. A teacher charged with sexual actiity with a pupil. H. A case arising out of Operation Yewtree. Examples of other Serious Criminal Offences Marshall. Two ery large alleged drug conspiracies, inoling extensie legal argument. A. An allegation of a heroin and cocaine smuggling operation run by the accused from oerseas. Blackstone and Morrison. Conspiracy to commit armed robbery. It was the first of a series of cases filmed from its inception, with the approal of the judiciary, by a BBC documentary team for a program called "Anatomy of Crime". O'Dowd. Defending singer Boy George for false imprisonment of a male escort. F. The defence of a student for alleged iolent disorder inside the Treasury during the student protests of B. A successful, high profile businessman alleged to hae kidnapped and beaten a person, arising out of a business dispute. Inquests Examples of Inquests Fisher. An industrial death at a mine. Jones. A death in custody. Booth. A death in custody. Barnes. A suicide in a hospital. Criminal Appeals Examples of Criminal Appeals B [2003] 1 WL The prosecution of an allegation of rape in which the accused was conicted and appealed on the basis that the question "Do you know of any reason why the complainant should hae made the allegation up?" was impermissible. The highest judicial authority in some Commonwealth jurisdictions forbids the question. Considerable Commonwealth case-law was cited. The Court of Appeal held that the question was a proper question. Pattison DPP [2006] 2 All E 317. A judicial reiew, in which the Administratie Court redefined how a court can proe that a memorandum of coniction related to a particular accused, oerruling Derwent Magistrates s Court, Ex P Heaiside. D [2007] 1 WL The first re-trial of an acquitted person under the proisions of the 5 of 6

6 Criminal Justice Act Mitchell [2009] 1 Cr App 31. Court of Appeal. The legal principles of joint enterprise murder and withdrawal. Mendez & Thompson [2011] QB 876. Court of Appeal. Introduced the "altogether more life-threatening" test in fundamental difference joint enterprise cases. Barry Ward [2011] 1 WL 766. Establishing that the Court of Appeal has no jurisdiction to hear an appeal against a refusal to ary a confiscation order pursuant to section 23 of the POCA. Julian Jones [2013] 2 Cr App 10. eising the contemporary application of the principle of autrefois acquit. Gohil. An ongoing appeal from conictions for ery large-scale fraud and money laundering as a result of allegations of corruption during the original inestigation. Additional Information ecorder 2004 (authorised to try Class 2 cases) 6 of 6