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Alan Gardner prosecutes and defends all types of crime. He has acted alone or as a led junior in a wide variety of serious cases, including murder, manslaughter, other offences of serious violence, organized professional robberies (of security vans, large country houses, armed robbery of jewelers’ shops), complex multi-handed conspiracies, serious sexual offences (including rape, historical sexual abuse, sexual assault linked to allegations of torture, indecent images on computers), fraud, money laundering, Customs offences and road traffic offences (including causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving when under the influence of alcohol). Examples of recent instructions include:
- R v Moore and others (2009): a twelve handed conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis (prosecution junior counsel).
- R v L (2009): defence counsel in a trial concerning numerous allegations of child sexual abuse dating from the 1970s and 1980s, Defendant acquitted on all counts.
- R v Schmelz and others (2008-09): a professional “tie up” robbery in a large country house and associated conspiracy to handle stolen goods (prosecution junior counsel).
- Recent appearances in the Court of Appeal include R v Gilbert [2008] EWCA Crim 302 (successful appeal against a sentence of imprisonment for public protection) and R v Shillabeer [2009] EWCA Crim 1987 (successful appeal against sentence in a drug supply case).
Alan acted as junior counsel to the prosecution in R v Sion Jenkins in two appeals against conviction for murder (1999 and the reference by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in 2004), and as second junior counsel to the Crown in the two subsequent retrials at the Central Criminal Court (2005-06). Complex medical and scientific evidence was called by both sides as fresh evidence before the Court of Appeal and at the retrials.
Alan also has experience of confiscation proceedings, including enforcement proceedings in the High Court. He recently acted as junior counsel in the Family Division of the High Court successfully resisting an application by the Metropolitan Police to gain access to papers filed in divorce proceedings as part of a money laundering investigation.
Alan is a Grade 3 CPS prosecutor, and has prosecuted for other agencies including Revenue and Customs and the General Dental Council. He has appeared before the Parole Board representing a prisoner serving a life sentence. He also has extensive experience of family proceedings, in particular cases in which the family court has been asked to make findings of fact arising out of allegations such as rape and child sexual abuse. He is experienced in dealing with the disclosure of social services files into criminal proceedings and similar matters at the interface between criminal and family proceedings.
