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Mark McKone

Year of Call:

1988

Education:    

Attended school in Doncaster followed by the University of Leeds

Career:   

Called to the Bar 1988
Pupil to Geoffrey Marson QC (now Judge Marson)
Area of practice: Crime.  Defence and Prosecution (Grade 4 Prosecutor)

Currently member of Sovereign Chambers Management and Member of Pupillage Committee

Practice in all types of crime, but over 50% of practice is sex offending

Mark Mckone is Criminal Practitioner of 20 years with a significant experience in advising and representing prisoners at Parole Board and Adjudication Hearings.

He has significant practice in advising prisoners on the prospects of appeal against conviction and/or sentence in the cases where he has not been the trial Advocate. He can advise on funding, including the obtaining of relevant transcripts and he acts free of charge in an appropriate case.

In particular, he has sucessfully persuaded the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) to reduce the minimum term in a very large number of life imprisionment cases: experience has shown that the minimum terms are often miscalculated.