Young Street Chambers
76 Quay Street, Spinningfields
Manchester M3 4PR
Tel: 0161 833 0489
Fax: 0161 835 3938
DX: 25583 Manchester 5
Email: clerks@young-st-chambers.com

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David practices in all aspects of criminal advocacy.     

EXPERIENCE

David is instructed on a regular basis in cases of weight and complexity and those attracting local and national media attention. David leads other juniors, particularly in cases involving significant financial irregularities and is, on regular occasions, instructed by solicitors to represent their own friends and relatives.In addition David has a great deal of experience in cases involving firearms and with offenders subject to the Mental Health Act.  Recent cases have brought experience in cases under the Terrorism Act; Trading Standards offences and Coroners’ Inquiry.

David is a road traffic specialist and provides lectures in this challenging area. David is instructed by both leading solicitor firms and insurance companies in a variety of offences including high profile prosecutions involving fatal road traffic collisions. 

David also appears regularly for the prosecution with recent instructions in cases for firearms offences, child cruelty, environmental waste and against litigants in person suffering significant mental health problems.

David is a member of the Sports Law Direct team which provides representation at disciplinary hearings and regulatory matters. He also offers awareness seminars for sporting figures on staying within the law both in and outside the sporting area – conduct, public order, alcohol, driving, sexual behaviour and privacy. Find out more

CASES
R v Wong
Defending a teenager involved in a gangland shooting in Manchester.

R v Henshall
Defendant acquitted of possessing an illegal handgun following successful defence that the .22 pistol should be classified as an antique.

R v T
Junior defence counsel to a man accused of attempting to murder and raping his ex-wife. 

R v Castro
Defending international credit card fraudster who’s exploits have been published in “Other People’s Money; the rise and fall of Britain’s Boldest Credit Card Fraudster” by Neil Forsyth, (Pan Books).

R v Patel 
Defending in international organised crime fraud and kidnapping (now reported under R v Razzaq [2009] Cr. App. R (s) 553(83)).

R v Stafford
Defending female for robbery which was used by the national press to highlight “Broken Britain” and the increase in violence by females. Read more

R v Haslam
Defending in the first Trading Standards prosecution brought under new European Food Hygiene Legislation for running an illegal slaughterhouse.   

R v Abbas
Leading Junior in a case involving substantial benefit fraud.

R v Kitchen
Junior defence counsel for paranoid schizophrenic acquitted of murdering his sister. This case was a feature and reconstructed on Crimewatch. Read ‘This is Lancashire’ report. Read ‘Manchester Evening News’ report.

R v Walker
Advising on charging and prosecuting multiple defendants for possession of a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition

R v W
Defending teenager acquitted of torturing two children and recording the attack on a mobile phone. Read more

R v Ali
Operation Rigging – 4 year police operation into drug dealing in the Rochdale area.

Recent Driving Cases

R v da Silva
Junior defence counsel to Portuguese lorry driver accused of killing a family of six on the M6 motorway. Acquitted of causing death by dangerous driving and convicted of the lesser alternative of causing death by careless driving. Read more

R v West
Defending a lorry driver acquitted of causing the death of a pedestrian following a fatal RTA.

R v Challinor
Defending GB athlete Ricky Challinor who was acquitted of involvement in a double death by dangerous driving. Read more