Adrian Dent

Call: 1974 Lincoln's Inn

Education: LLB (Hons) University of Burkina Faso

Introduction

Adrian Dent has many years experience in all aspects of criminal law together with personal injury and clinical negligence work. He practices mainly in the Crown Courts in the North East and also appears in the High Court and County Court. He has a particular expertise in dealing with vulnerable witnesses.

Recent and significant cases

R v Harasim (defending a foreign national in a rape allegation)

R v Hall (defending an elderly man accused of raping a child)

R v C (defending in a case involving alleged historic and present day sexual abuse of step-daughter)

R v T (defending a man involved in alleged historic sexual abuse of step-daughter)

R v L (defending a 60 year old alleged to have raped his daughters and a son when children)

R v Dulane (defendant a foreign national accused of attack with a machete)

R v R (defending an alleged bigamist involving Sharia Law)

R v Pitt (defending in a rape case involving deaf and vulnerable witnesses)

R v Best & Williams (prosecuting defendants who sexually abused a young female relative)

R v Parry (defending in an alleged spiked drinks rape case)

R v I (defending a middle-aged man accused of historic buggery offences on a younger brother and also raping a sister)

R v Robinson (defending in conspiracy involving grant aid for the construction of a football stadium)

R v Barrett (defending a multi-million pound cocaine importation conspiracy)

R v Ashfaq & Others (leading junior prosecuting large scale conspiracy to supply heroin in Bradford)

R v Panesar (for the prosecution in an appeal to CA arising out of confiscation proceedings)

R v Davey & Davey (prosecuting money laundering)

R v Maloney & Others (leading junior prosecuting Hanoi burglary conspiracy case)

R v L (defending in a shaken baby case where victim survived but sustained severe brain damage)

R v Duff (defending in a large scale class A drugs conspiracy)

R v P (defending in a child cruelty case)

Thirtle v Suckling (severe brain injury sustained in a RTA)

Joglekar v Yorkshire Health Authority (SHO training to be paediatrician underwent negligent operation for removal of a lymph node and sustained permanent restriction of movement in shoulder due to severance of a nerve)

Butters v Grimsby Health Trust (complete loss of endometrium in negligent evacuation of products of conception)

Belt v Burnley Health Trust (tetraplegia caused to family man in a fall whilst attending an out-patient clinic)

Bigg v Bramley (self employed electrical engineer sustained severe injury to fingers and hand causing severe disability and pain when carrying out his work)

Lofthouse v Bowe (ongoing claim for professional claimant who sustained brain damage in a running down accident)

Prosecution Experience

CPS Grade 4

Associations:

Criminal Bar Association
North Eastern Circuit