Tom Mitchell

Call: 1995 Lincoln's Inn (Megarry Scholar)

Education: The Manchester Grammar School

MA (Oxon) Balliol College, Oxford

Practice Area: Defending serious crime

Extensive experience in very high cost cases involving allegations of massive fraud and organised crime as well as high value asset restraint, recovery and forfeiture.

Recent examples of VHCC and special casework in the last two years include:

R v JMW, Operation Cirrate, Liverpool Crown Court
Massive class A drugs conspiracy

R v NH, Operation Greengage, Liverpool Crown Court
Importation of class A drugs, criminal money and firearms.
Lancashire Constabulary’s largest case of it’s kind

R v GL, Operation Parkway, Teesside Crown Court
Alleged multi-million pound company fraud

R v SP, Operation MFBE/Erasure, Liverpool Crown Court
MTIC VAT fraud
Alleged to be one of the largest ever detected frauds of its kind in the UK

R v DP, Operation Oceanic, Teesside Crown Court
Massive alleged class A drugs conspiracy

R v Reed, Reed and Garmson [2009] EWCA Crim 2698
Junior counsel for the lead defendant in the leading appellate court decision on the admissibility and cogency of low template DNA evidence

Also expert in the civil law of
•    Police liability and actions against public bodies
•    Entry, arrest, detention, search and seizure

Accepts instructions in all areas of highly contentious advocacy such as
•    Courts martial
•    Care work involving findings of fact
•    Disciplinary proceedings
•    Civil fraud injunctions
•    Alcohol and firearms licensing
•    Contested property claims
•    Inquests
•    Discrimination claims

Associations

Criminal Bar Association
Association of Military Court Advocates
North Eastern Circuit