Community Legal Service Criminal Defence Service

Amanda Johnson

Call:
1992 Gray's Inn
Education:
LLB (Hons) University Cardiff
Practice:
Amanda Johnson is a member of the Criminal Team and practises exclusively in this field, including all aspects of Prison Law.
Experience:
Miss Johnson has a wide experience at all levels of crime and is regularly instructed as junior counsel in heavyweight criminal matters. She is instructed to prosecute at a number of different court centres, all manner of offences up to and including murder, and is currently a grade 3 prosecutor. Additionally, she has considerable experience defending in serious cases.
Recent cases include:
  • R v Mostaffa (junior brief - arson of the Yarlswood detention centre for asylum seekers)
  • R v Ralph (junior brief - serious fraud)
  • R v O'Brien, The Times, March 23 2000, CA (junior brief - child sexual abuse)