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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).

Maxwell with Lord Phillips.  This case has set the standard for fraud trials with its use of technology and the so-called Maxwell hours.

Mr Keeley sat on the bench throughout both trials and helped both Judges prepare their summing-ups.

Serafinowicz - the first ever War Crimes Trial and the appeal of the Bridgewater Four.  In Serafinowicz, Mr Keeley was noting Junior during the trial to both Sir John Nutting QC and the then Solicitor General, Sir Derek Spencer QC.  In Bridgewater, Mr Keeley assisted Alun Jones QC in going through Vincent Hickey's interviews in order to assess whether or not there had been any irregularities.

CPS Level 3 prosecutor

Mr. Keeley 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. Mr. Keeley represented a Superintendent who was responsible for a police investigation where a teenager had died in a police cell.

For further details please contact Zoe Malir or Yvonne Crosbie on 0113 245 1841.