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Karim S. Khalil QC

Qualifications
Called to the Bar 1984
Queen's Counsel 2003
MA Hons (Law) – Queens' College, Cambridge

Professional Associations
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
South Eastern Circuit Liaison Committee (Chair)
Cambridge & Peterborough Bar Mess (Chair)
Criminal Bar Association
Norfolk Bar Mess
Bar Disciplinary Tribunal
Member of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences

Appointments
Recorder 2000
Assistant Recorder 1997
Judging panel member of the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire's Award for Forensic Excellence

Specialisation
Criminal Law
Civil actions against the Police arising out of "criminal "allegations
Health & Safety

Experience
Karim Khalil has been "recommended in crime" for many years in the Chambers & Partners Directory.

He spent three years on the Professional Conduct and Complaints Committee of the Bar.

He acted as an approved pupil supervisor for 15 years

Practice
Karim Khalil has built up a substantial defence and prosecution practice in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and London and the surrounding counties, appearing in many serious and high profile cases.

He advised successfully a former Government scientist investigated in the Porton Down "chemical testing" enquiry. He was also instructed as junior counsel to prosecute the Soham murder trial, and continued as the second Silk after his appointment.

He was the first Counsel engaged to represent Steve Wright (alleged serial Suffolk murderer).

Karim Khalil has an unblemished record in successfully prosecuting and defending in a number of baby shaking/assault cases and has a significant interest in the medical issues involved.

Notable cases

R-v-Huntley & Carr
(prosecution – Soham murders) Download trial article

R-v-Harvey
(defence – murder and dismemberment of relative)

R-v-Brown
(defence – sado-masochism)

R-v-Jacques
(prosecution – Cambridge University antiquarian thief)

R-v-Wyner & Brock
(defence –- "The Cambridge Two" - drugs premises)

R-v-Rand
(prosecution – baby assault despite defence successful in family proceedings)

R-v-Wang
(appellant in House of Lords – Judge wrongly directing conviction– with Andrew Shaw

R-v-Cheong
(defence–- alleged murder in Guyana 20 yrs ago – manslaughter)

R-v-Varian
(defence – VAT fraud - conditional discharge)

R-v-Jalil
(defence – 3 month insurance fraud)

Hannan -v-DTI
(defence – Company Directors Disqualification Act)

R-v-Pepper & others
(defence – Health & Safety Executive – penalty restricted to Magistrates’ Court level fine despite death of employee)

 

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