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John Hallissey

Call: 2003

Barrister

Testimonials

His practice covers the whole spectrum of criminal law. Legal 500 2017

Clear, Succinct and admired by clients Legal 500 2015 (Recommended Leading Junior - Crime - Midlands)

An excellent communicator who adopts a methodical approach in court Legal 500 2014 (Recommended Leading Junior - Crime - Midlands)

He has dealt with numerous complex cases and has gained a reputation as one of the leading junior barristers on the Midland Circuit Leicestershire Law Society (2013 Barrister of the year)

Practice Profile

John is a criminal law specialist whose practice is focussed upon serious and organised crime. He is a grade 4 prosecutor, a grade 4 member of the Serious Crime Group Panel and a member of the CPS Rape and Child Sexual Abuse list.

John’s ability to make large volumes of material readily intelligible to a jury means that his practice primarily involves complex and paper-heavy prosecutions. John’s cases typically involve a significant amount of telephone and surveillance evidence or significant amounts of financial documentation.

In recent years John’s practice has seen a bias toward large-scale drug operations, firearms offending, people trafficking/modern slavery and homicide

John prosecutes for local and regional Trading Standards Services, typically being engaged at an early, often pre-charge, stage of the proceedings to advise on the best strategy from the outset.

A natural advocate, John is forceful and persuasive in front of a jury and has an ability to cut straight to the point of a case. Work Undertaken

Serious and Complex Crime Consumer Law

Publications

36 Crime Newsletter

Appointments & Memberships

Criminal Bar Association Middle Temple Midland Circuit

Notable Cases

Operation Flash (Ongoing)

Leading junior for the Crown Multi-kilo class A and class B supplies. 20+ defendants

Operation Carter (Ongoing)

Leading junior for the Crown An ‘Operation Venetic’ case arising out of the NCA infiltration of the EncroChat system 20+ defendants

Operation Cloak (2021)

Prosecuting alone.

Multi-kilo class A OCG who exploited a 15-year-old boy, forcing him to prepare and sell drugs. Northamptonshire’s first successful prosecution of a drug dealing gang for Modern Slavery Act offences.

See here.

Operation Jazzy (2021)

Prosecuting alone.

‘Inside job’ robbery of a bank customer. D1, a bank employee, on learning of a customer’s arrangement to withdraw £38,000 in cash, arranged for D2 and D3 to rob him as he left the bank.

See here. Operation Undeserve (2021)

Prosecuting alone.

Offences of arranging/facilitating travel with a view to exploitation and forced/compulsory labour.

D brought his victim from Romania to the UK on the promise of good wages and a better life. Instead, the victim slept on a sofa, was not given enough food to eat and his wages were retained by the defendant. See here

R v Patel and others [2021] EWCA Crim 231

Junior counsel for the Crown. In these conjoined appeals the Court of Appeal considered how the courts should approach sentencing of defendants whose sentences were adjourned, through no fault of their own, until after the commencement of ‘The release of prisoners (alteration of relevant proportion of sentence) order 2020'

Operation Maker (2020 - 2021)

Leading Junior for the Crown. 10-defendant, multi-kilo drug dealing operation exposed by undercover officers.

R v Reynolds: [2021] EWCA Crim 10

Prosecuting alone. The Court of Appeal considered the propriety of a s45A MHA order as compared to a s37 order with s41 restrictions