Members

Quinn Hawkins

 

Year of birth 1970
Year of call 1999
Inn Lincoln’s Inn
Circuit South Eastern
Qualifications

1997 – 1998: Inns of Court School of Law: BVC
1994 – 1997: LLB honours Westminster University

Full CV

Quinn is regularly instructed as prosecuting and defending counsel in the London Crown Courts.

He has particular expertise in dealing with complex disclosure issues and has recently finished a year-long disclosure exercise in one of the biggest murder investigations ever conducted by the Metropolitan Police.

He has been led in cases of murder, attempted murder and fraud. He has a general practice that covers the full range of serious criminal offences including armed robbery, drugs, sexual offences involving vulnerable witnesses, and dishonesty. Quinn also has experience in licensing, police disciplinary matters and has been instructed by Metropolitan Police Solicitors as special counsel. Presently he is instructed as prosecution junior in Operation Achilles, the prosecution of animal rights activists charged with blackmail and a series of large scale drugs cases investigated by the specialist police branch, the projects team.

Notable Cases

Case name

R v Nelson

Case name

R v Taylor, Portwine and Cunnane

Appearance

Prosecution – led junior

Appearance

Prosecution – led junior

Category

Murder

Category  
Detail

Murder of the police officer; one of the largest Metropolitan Police investigations ever conducted.

Detail

First large-scale prosecution for the new offences created as a result of action taken against Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire.

       
Case name

R v Watson and Others

Case name

R v Hassan and Others

Appearance

Defence – led junior

Appearance

Defence – led junior

Category

5 handed Conspiracy to defraud

Category

5 handed Conspiracy to defraud

Detail

High profile fraud involving the sale of meat that was unfit for human consumption from a farm in Denby, Derbyshire.

Detail

First large-scale prosecution of use of illegal immigrants for cheap labour by ‘gang masters’.