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James Keeley

Year of Call:

1993

Education:

LLB (Hons) Law

LLM Employment Law and Relations

Career:

Called to the Bar 1993

Judicial Assistant (including trials of Brent Walker with HHJ Geoffrey Rivlin QC and Maxwell with Lord Phillips).

Member of Sovereign Chambers since

James both prosecutes and defends the most serious of criminal matters, including murder, large fraud and rape. He is a Grade 3 prosecutor, currently being monitored for Grade 4 status.

James always ensures that he both inspects and advises upon unused material when both prosecuting and defending. In terms of expert evidence he has experience of the following people and areas: cell site analysis, accountants, psychiatrists, psychologists, surgeons and paediatricians.     

After helping the late Sir Stephen Tumim inspect prisons Mr. Keeley takes a real interest in prisoner’s rights and other aspects of Human Rights and Judicial Review.

James has given a lecture on Human Rights as part of the Education for Global Justice series. 

James has a great deal of experience of Inquests including two where there have been deaths in custody and where he has acted for the police on both occasions. The first one involved a man who savagely killed his girlfriend before killing himself by jumping from the Humber Bridge. The second inquest was over three weeks in Sunderland. James represented a Superintendent who was responsible for a police investigation where a teenager had died in a police cell.

James has recently appeared on Radio 4, Women’s Hour, where he discussed anonymity in Rape Cases.