Gordon prosecutes and defends both on the Midland Circuit and in London. He has experience of a wide variety of cases but in particular those involving organised crime, homicide (including gross negligence manslaughter and causing death by dangerous driving), serious sexual offences, drug trafficking, corruption and fraud. He is instructed in his own right as a leading junior.
Gordon is a member of the SFO Panel and has been a Grade 4 Prosecutor for over 10 years.
Key cases
- R v Szopa (2008): prosecuting trial of manslaughter and robbery
- R v Martin Paul Clarke [2007] EWCA Crim 2532; The Times, October 29, 2007: the ambit of the Crown's right to appeal against terminating rulings under the CJA 2003
- R v Mallard & Watson (2007): defending a man who tried to conceal non-accidental injuries to his girlfriend's four-month old baby by crashing and setting fire to a car with the baby inside
- R v John Lewis Brown [2006] EWCA Crim 141: quashing of a conviction for robbery despite a guilty plea
- R v Colin Gunn & Ors (2006): the "Trusthorpe murders" - the revenge killing of John and Joan Stirland in their own home by an organised gang. Case reported on the use of discretionary life sentences for conspiracy to murder
- R v Brown & Ors [2005]: The Lincoln Prison riots. Leading counsel for the prosecution in the first case in modern times of the authorities losing control of an entire prison
- AG's reference (no.25 of 2004) sub nom R v Gay [2004] EWCA Crim 1203; (2005) 1 Cr App R (S) 15: sentence for false imprisonment
- R v Hart (2001): defending in trial arising from the Selby train crash
Contact Gordon Aspden
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7242 3555
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2511
Email: clerks@7br.co.uk