Alistair Fell’s practice covers a broad variety of offences in which he has been instructed both as leading counsel and a junior. He is on the Attorney General’s List of counsel to prosecute for government departments and has been instructed by solicitors to defend in serious cases.

 

His practice is comprised of both prosecution and defence work, the later representing the greater part of his work.

 

He has appeared frequently before the Court of Appeal and he has been granted leave to appeal in cases involving the interpretation of ‘false impressions’ and ‘propensity’ [s.101(1)(d),(f)] Criminal Justice Act 2003.

 

He has been instructed in defence cases at varying levels of gravity. This has included cases involving grave violence, kidnapping, false imprisonment and serious offences of dishonesty. He has acted as leading counsel in an attempted murder case (R v A, 2007) in which the victim sustained devastating injuries, from which he later died.

 

He has also been instructed in a case of violent disorder in which the victim was murdered R.v.N, 2007.

 

He has defended in two cases of causing death by dangerous driving, securing an acquittal in one of them.

Alistair Fell has many years experience of prosecuting cases on behalf of various prosecuting authorities.

 

He has prosecuted multi-handed cases involving serious allegations of kidnap, assault, robbery and drugs supply. He has been instructed as junior counsel in a serious case involving a conspiracy to supply Class A drugs (R.v.K and Others, 2006). The case involved the supply of 29 kilos of Heroin at 100% purity.

 

He has prosecuted for RCPO since the late 1990s. He has been instructed in cases at all levels of seriousness involving drugs and money laundering. He has been instructed as junior counsel in a money laundering case involving millions of pounds of money defrauded from HMRC (Operation Cxxxx 2008). The case involved substantial sums of money that had been the subject of an elaborate ‘carousel’ fraud.

 

He has been instructed in cases involving PII material and sensitive issues of phone interception evidence. He has experience of the difficulties that can arise in cases involving multiple defendants with different disclosure issues. 

 

 

More recently he has been instructed to prosecute on behalf of Local Authorities responsible for enforcing trading standards. This area of work is both broad and challenging.