Roderick Hunt

Call: 1981 Middle Temple

Education: MA (Cantab)
                Ripon Grammar School
                Downing College Cambridge


Introduction

Rod has extensive experience and expertise in all major areas of criminal law. He regularly acts on behalf of Local Authority and Government Agencies. He is also highly experienced in Court Martial cases.

His main areas of expertise include Murder, Manslaughter, Rape, Informant and Undercover Cases, Drug Trafficking, Child Abuse and Serious Violent Offences, including false memory symptoms and satanic abuse. He has also dealt with Youth Justice and Public Interest immunity cases.

Advocacy experience has been gained in the Crown Court, Divisional Court and Court of Appeal. Rod has always been based in the North of England both in industry and at the bar.

He is also experienced in contested care matters, contact and residence proceedings.


Prosecution Experience

CPS Grade 4

Recent and significant cases, for example:

False memory syndrome and hypnosis in historic sex abuse
Lip reading and covert surveillance in prison in murder
Human rights and covert surveillance by police in court premises
Satanic abuse and witchcraft  allegations made against parents which led to an ‘Orkney’ style prosecution which closed down an entire section of a north east town
National paedophile ring operating out of a care home for disturbed children
Murder by juveniles incorporating necrophilia
Serial poisoning by wife of successive husbands
Murder by policeman of own wife
Murder by children
Drug dealing by policeman
Rapes by children upon adults
Rapes of children by children
Rapes of adults including extreme violence, group sex and high media profile rape with campaign group attached
Murders of spouses, neighbours and strangers
Two cases linked to Irish terrorism which entailed security issues at the highest level
Drug dealing involving seizures at over £1,000,000 including importation from the USA
Defence in Hunting Act protest involving direct attack on Prime Minister’s car
Court martial of Colonel in military intelligence
Court Martial of RSM accused of serial sexual abuse of young recruits
Innumerable cases of armed robbery , section 18 violence etc
Industrial fraud involving sums in excess of £1,000,000

In addition Rod has conducted child care cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal

He is a Grade 4 Crown Prosecutor

Most interesting reported case R v Loveridge, Lee and Loveridge 2001 2 Cr App R 29 CA quoted inArchbold at paras 4-30; 14-39;16-67;16-109

Associations:

Criminal Bar Association
Northern Eastern Circuit