With a team of 21 specialist crime and regulatory King’s Counsel, and over 30 Senior Juniors, Lincoln House Chambers is renowned for its regular involvement in the most significant murder and manslaughter cases nationally. We are instructed by both defence solicitor firms and the CPS (including Complex Casework Units, Special Divisions and Headquarters).
Several of our team have national reputations for being leaders in their specialist fields within murder and manslaughter areas and are recommended year after year in the leading legal directories. Over the past three decades a very significant number of those cases that have attracted national public interest and media attention have involved members of Lincoln House Chambers.
Our team includes members with specialist expert knowledge of joint enterprise, complex and highly specialised medical and pathological evidence, the deaths of young children and babies, partial defences, causation and several other key areas. Members are regularly sought out to represent young and very vulnerable defendants. Our expertise in regulatory areas allows us to provide the highest levels of service in gross negligence and corporate manslaughter areas.
Our service can be provided from the very earliest stages of the case and covers the entire range of homicide cases including:
- Conspiracy to commit murder
- Terrorism
- Gangland executions
- Multi-handed murders
- Causing death by dangerous and careless driving (also see Driving Offences section of this site)
- Baby shaking murders
- Infanticide
- Familial homicides
- Sexually motivated murders
- Gross negligence manslaughter (also see Health & Safety section of this site)
- Corporate manslaughter (also see Health & Safety section of this site)
- “One Punch” murders
- Attempted murder
We have an outstanding working relationship with the leading solicitors firms and experts and can assist you in finding the right team for the specific needs of the case.
“Lincoln House Chambers is a highly rated set on the Northern Circuit, lauded by instructing solicitors as having ‘many strong advocates and some real superstars’.” Chambers UK, 2024
“The set offers expertise spanning the full range of criminal offences, and members regularly undertake cases of the utmost gravity including those relating to homicides, serious violence, drug offences and sexual assaults.” Chambers UK, 2024