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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 and fraud.

Recent Cases

• R v Kalbone Instructed as leading junior for defendant charged with murder
  Central Criminal Court, 18 March 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, 31 March 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, 05 May 2010, ongoing
• 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, 08 April 2010, ongoing
  

Forthcoming Cases

• R v L Potter Representing a defendant in a five handed conspiracy to commit burglary. A serious and complicated case involving stolen goods in excess of £ 1 million
  Isleworth Crown Court
• R v 'X' Representing defendant in a historical sex abuse case
  Portsmouth Crown Court

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