Tim is a specialist criminal practitioner who is instructed to prosecute and defend in the full range of criminal offences, from murder, armed robbery and serious sexual offences to fraud and money laundering. He is a grade 3 prosecutor for the CPS. He is currently advising one of the largest companies in the UK in the course of a corporate manslaughter investigation.
Tim has considerable experience in defending and prosecuting high value confiscation proceedings. He has acted for the Crown in cases arising out of substantial drugs supply surveillance operations and is experienced in dealing with sensitive material and public interest immunity. He regularly advises as independent counsel on questions of legal professional privilege.
His appellate work has involved advising on the competence of leading and junior counsel in a £190,000 bookkeeping fraud, and the preparation of argument for the Court of Appeal in respect of the propriety of police officers serving on juries, and issues surrounding Public Interest Immunity and RIPA. He appeared in the Divisional Court in a leading case limiting police powers of arrest, and has recently appeared in a case limiting the use of the ‘interests of justice’ exception to admit hearsay where a witness is reluctant to give evidence.
Key Cases
- R v Jackson – defendant accused of murder following his release from a life sentence for an earlier murder
- R v Sainsbury - prosecution of defendant who stabbed his former partner to death, having been bailed for threatening to kill her
- R v Freeman [2010] EWCA Crim 1997 – blackmail conviction quashed due to the wrongful admission of a witness statement under the hearsay provisions. Originally tried on multiple indictments alleging aggravated burglary, kidnap, blackmail, threats to kill and a series of assaults
- R v Adams & Mills - prosecution of father and partner for engaging in group sexual activity with his children
- R v SW - defendant acquitted in respect of numerous allegations of rape and other sexual offences against family members
- R v DH - defendant acquitted of alleged gang rape of a fourteen year old girl
- R v I – defendant acquitted of sexual assault by penetration on a mentally ill pensioner
- R v T & R – the imprisonment and torture of a suspected ‘poison pen’ author
- Wood v DPP, The Times, May 23 2008, [2008] EWHC 1056 (Admin) – appeared for the applicant in case determining the relevance of a police officer’s intention when detaining a suspect
- Operation Culloden – number of indictments alleging possession with intent to supply drugs with street value in excess of £½million, money laundering and fraud. Confiscation proceedings to value of more than £2million
- R v Majavedi – attempted arson of a high rise block of flats
- R v Seo - £105k accounting fraud perpetrated through the commission system at Burberry
- R v Aniakor - £100k money laundering relating to cash found within a safe depository
Contact Tim Bowden
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7242 3555
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2511
Email: clerks@7br.co.uk