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Tim Banks

1983

Tim has substantial experience, having prosecuted and defended in a wide variety of serious cases. In the last ten years he has tended to specialise in defence work. He has been instructed in major and complex cases involving drug importation and supply. In addition he has acted, both in London and the provinces, in cases of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, sexual offences against children, armed robbery, blackmail, fraud and private motoring offences.

Recent Cases

• R v N Durbidge Counsel for the defendant. The latter was a mortgage broker charged with a serious ‘glassing' offence 
  Southwark Crown Court, 2010 (further reading: Evening Standard, 22 October 2010)
• R v K Albone Instructed as leading junior for defendant charged with murder
  Central Criminal Court, 2010  (further reading: BBC News, 18 March 2010; BBC News, 22 January 2010)  
• R v N Carpenter Represented defendant charged with a series of armed robberies. The defendant had escaped from prison in order to commit these offences
  Reading Crown Court, 2010 (further reading: Thames Valley Police - News, 22 December 2009)
• R v R Grant Represented one of the main defendants in a case that involves a large scale conspiracy to supply class A drugs
  Warwick Crown Court, 2010
• R v E Parris Represented one of seventeen defendants all charged with a series of customer impersonation frauds. The total value of the fraud is £4 million. The defendant was an employee of a bank
  Southwark Crown Court, 2010

Forthcoming Cases

• R v O Instructed to defend care worker charged with various sexual offences
  Kingston Crown Court, 2011
• R v S Acting for the defence in £4 million tobacco smuggling operation
  Warwick Crown Court, 2011
• R v S Instructed for defence in a case involving conspiracy to convey prohibited articles into prison. One of the defendants in the conspiracy is a solicitor
  Blackfriars Crown Court, 2011
• R v M Representing one defendant in a serious case of conspiracy to blackmail
  Newcastle Crown Court, 2011

News

• Tim Banks secures acquittal in serious and high profile gang rape case
  Three men have been jailed for raping a 16-year-old girl in an attack in which caustic soda was thrown on her.
  11 February 2009