Christopher Drew

EXPERTISE

Crime (prosecution and defence) specialising in fraud, company directors liabilities, and sexual offences. Standing counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry from 1989 to 2004. Civil practice includes housing, insolvency (personal and corporate), probate, and Inheritance Act claims. Family law, particularly public law children cases.

NOTABLE CASES

R v Abdullahi [2007] 1 Cr App Rep 14 (Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.14)
R v Doring [2003] 1 Cr App Rep 9 (Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, s.11)
R v McCredie & French [2000] BCC 617 (Misconduct in winding-up a company)
R v Christou [1997] AC 117 HL (Severance of indictment in case of serial sexual offences)

PUBLICATIONS

'Malicious Prosecution' in Atkin's Court Forms (Vol 25(1), Butterworths, London, 2007)
'Nuisance' in Atkin's Court Forms (Vol 29, Butterworths, London, 1991)

LANGUAGES

French (Conversational).