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Daniel Janner KC

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Called: 1980

QC: 2002

Telephone: 020 7430 7430

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Daniel Janner QC

Daniel Janner KC is an experienced criminal silk with a wide-ranging practice and a highly successful track record. He is qualified to accept instructions directly from clients under the Bar Council direct access scheme.

“I was fortunate enough to be represented by Daniel Janner in civil and criminal matters for almost 19 years.  He was professional and extremely hardworking at all times.  He always listened and his advice was invariably spot on.  I realised that he was respected by opposition barristers and judges.  Mr Janner served me well and is a credit to the profession” – Frank McGrath.

“Daniel is a consummate tactician and persuasive advocate both at first instance and on appeal.  He inspires confidence in clients and is totally committed to every case, supremely well prepared and leaves no stone unturned enabling him to achieve the best possible outcomes” – Katherine Sheldrick,  Partner, Hempsons solicitors.

“Daniel’s written and oral advocacy in the Court of Appeal were incisive and compelling, which showed a true grasp of the human and legal issues in a case that he had not even presented at trial.  The President of the Court made special mention that Daniel’s skeleton argument was a model.”  – Rupert Butler, barrister and Head of Leverets Legal Practice.

“I have instructed Daniel Janner QC on many of my most complex and difficult cases, where the stakes for my clients are extremely serious.  His intellect, wisdom and formidable advocacy skills are matched by his high standard of client care and his commitment to achieving the best possible outcomes.”  – Daniel Berke, solicitor 3d Regulatory Law.

“Daniel provides excellent first instance and appellate advocacy…has excellent rapport with juries…first rate legal acumen and particularly fine drafting.”  – Legal 500.

Daniel is a Bencher of the Middle Temple and was a Jules Thorn scholar.

He has been an editor of the Criminal Appeal Reports since 1994.

He has been called to the Cayman Islands Bar.

He has been appointed Duty Counsel at the International Criminal Court.

He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he was elected President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1978.

Areas of Law

Criminal law:  Including homicide; sexual offences; fraud; drugs and firearm offences. Daniel advises clients pre-charge and throughout the criminal proceedings.

Disciplinary law:  Including representing doctors before the General Medical Council.

Prominent Cases Include

  • Heysel Stadium football extraditions.
  • Knightsbridge Safety Deposit box robbery.
  • Oyston and Martin rape trials.
  • French Student murder trial.
  • “Happy Slap” murder trial.
  • London City Bond fraud trial.
  • Rodley “Lord of Fraud” trial.
  • McGrath corruption and money laundering trial.
  • Cleeve Prior missing body murder trial.
  • Gouldbourne Cayman Islands murder trial.
  • Howeson historic sexual offences trial
  • Crossharbour DLR murder trial.

Direct Access

Daniel Janner KC is approved to accept instructions direct from international and UK clients on a direct access basis, without the need for a solicitor intermediary in appropriate cases.