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Christian Jowett (1999)
Email: cjowett@temple-chambers.co.uk
Areas of Practice :
Criminal Law, Civil Law, Immigration Law, Family Law
Description:
Broad-based common law practice. Significant advocacy background before a wide range of courts and tribunals; considerable experience of advising and drafting.
Contract: Advising, drafting and advocacy in contractual and commercial disputes including:
• Agency
• Bailment
• Construction
• Consumer Credit
• Insurance
• Supply of Goods and Services
Criminal Law: Significant experience in Crown and Magistrates' Courts. Particular interest in Proceeds of Crime Act applications and fraud. Currently reading-in for a large VAT fraud as junior counsel to HM Revenue and Customs, due for trial from January 2010.
Personal Injuries: Advising on liability and quantum, drafting and advocacy involving:
• Health and Safety
• Highways
• Occupiers’ Liability
• Road Traffic
Regularly instructed to advise, draft, and appear in court by government departments in personal injuries matters.
Property: Advising, drafting and advocacy, before courts and the Land Adjudicator, in property cases:
• Boundaries and Easements
• Inheritance and Financial Provision
• Trusts of Land and the Appointment of Trustees Act
• Ancillary Relief
Inquests: Representation at Coroner’s Court.
Immigration: Representing appellants in the Tribunal in all areas of Immigration Law:
• Employment applications
• Family applications
• Deportation and Bail
• Asylum, Humanitarian Protection, and Human Rights
Licensing: Advocacy in licensing appeals and prosecutions, including liquor licensing and taxi licensing. Advisory work, including advising Local Government concerning Statements of Licensing Policy.
Regulation: Advocacy and advisory practice relating to Local Authorities concerning housing and antisocial behaviour, and Police Authority in relation to closure orders. General regulatory practice has encompassed prosecutions under the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001, and cattle and livestock regulation. Also significant experience in regulatory environmental and planning matters, including the representation of government departments. Has recently been junior counsel to the Environment Agency in the successful prosecution of Operation Ascot, which concerned the unlawful deposit of waste from, amongst other sources, the gas pipeline from Milford Haven to Gloucestershire. Recently appeared before the Divisional Court in and appeal by way of case stated in respect of the statutory defence in s.9(3) Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. Also accepts instructions in trading standards cases, in particular on behalf of local authorities.
Memberships:
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
Proceeds of Crime Lawyers' Association
Personal Injuries Bar Association
Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
Wales and Chester Circuit
Awards:
Joseph Hume Scholarship, University College London (1999)
Holt Award, Gray's Inn (1999)
Simmons & Simmons Property Law Prize, University College London (1997)
Andrews Prize for Laws, University College London (1996)
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Education:
Ll.M., University College London, Laws 2000
Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law, 1999
Ll.B. (Hons), University College London, Laws 1998
Publications:
Academic and Practitioner Articles
‘Sittin’ in the Dock with the Bayes’
(2001) 151 NLJ 201
(DNA match-testing and Bayes’ Theory)
‘Lies, Damned Lies, and DNA Statistics: DNA Match Testing, Bayes’ Theorem, and the Criminal Courts’
The Journal of the British Society of Forensic Sciences
Med. Sci. Law (2001) Vol. 41, No.3, pp. 194-205.
‘Crime Brief’
In pupillage and the first few years of tenancy, regular column on recent developments in Criminal Law, Procedure, and Evidence, Crime Brief, New Law Journal
Other Articles
‘I’ll See You in Court’ (2002) 152 NLJ 1290
‘No Room at the Inn’ (2001) 151 NLJ 1898
‘Propping up the Bar’ (2001) 151 NLJ 1418
Cases:
Carmarthenshire County Council v Humphreys: [2010] DC: statutory defence under under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 s.9(3)
Operation Ukraine: junior counsel to Revenue and Customs in the prosecution of a multi-defendant VAT fraud. For trial in 2010
Operation Compass: junior counsel to the Crown in the prosecution of seven men for murder
R v Olden [2007] EWCA Crim 726
Lectures:
Temple Chambers’ Lecture on Civil Procedure in Trusts of Land Act cases (2006)
Lecture to Local Government Solicitors’ Association on Antisocial Behaviour Orders (2005)
Other:
Junior Counsel to the Crown: Regional Panel
Attorney General’s Unified List: C Panel
Crown Prosecution Service List: Grade 4
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