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Called: 1991

Email: clerks@187chambers.com

Telephone: 020 7430 7430

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Richard Potts Criminal Defence Barrister

Richard was called in 1991 having previously spent 10 years practising as a solicitor specialising in crime. He now has a mixed criminal practice predominantly, but not exclusively, in East Anglia where he both defends and prosecutes criminal cases up to the most serious level.

He has been instructed numerous times as a leading junior for both defence and prosecution and has acted in a wide range of cases.

He is on the CPS Advocate Panel at level 4 for both London and the South Eastern Circuit generally and is an accredited rape prosecutor.

Areas of Law

Richard deals with general crime in both civilian and military courts; as a leading junior he has prosecuted multi-defendant murder and other serious and complex cases of sexual allegations, violence, drugs and dishonesty and defended in similar cases. Richard has also defended in murder trials (including multi-defendant) as junior alone.

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Asset Forfeiture and Confiscation

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Criminal Defence

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Criminal Prosecution

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Fraud & Financial Crime

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Courts Martial & Military Law

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Regulatory Law

Sports-Law

Sports Law

Trading-Standards

Trading Standards

Cases

Criminal Defence

R v S & Others – Kidnap

R v T – Drugs – Successful modern slavery argument

R v E & Another – Drugs supply – Youth defendant – Psychological evidence

R v G & Another – Causing child to suffer serious physical harm – Multiple medical experts

R v M – Threats to kill – Mental health

Criminal Prosecution

R v S – Stranger sexual assault on schoolgirl

R v K & 4 Others – “County lines” supply conspiracy

R v W – Property fraud and associated POCA

R v C & Another – Historic sexual case

R v K & Another – Kidnap

R v S & 4 Others – Conspiracy to burgle (domestic and commercial across six counties)

R v H – Historic sexual abuse

R v G & 3 Others – Aggravated burglary

Professional Memberships

Criminal Bar Association

South Eastern Circuit

East Anglian Bar Mess

Essex Bar Mess

Awards, Qualifications & Other

LL.B.(Hons)

Grade 4 CPS Counsel

CPS Rasso Panel

Direct Access

Richard Potts 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.

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