Robert Dacre

Robert Dacre

"Robert is polished and assured. His written and oral advocacy is top drawer and he has the capacity to cope with large quantities of case papers and drill down to what is actually relevant. He is a rising star of the criminal Bar."

Legal 500 UK 2024
Year of call: 2013
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Criminal Defence

Robert has a substantial criminal practice. He has represented clients at trial in the Crown Court across a wide spectrum of offences: from fraud to terrorism.

Robert has appeared in the Court of Appeal and High Court in his own right on several occasions.

In recent years, Robert has developed significant experience both defending and prosecuting in serious fraud. His instructions have included a multi-million pound ‘cash for crash’ insurance fraud, one of the largest ever trading standards prosecutions for conspiracy to defraud, and a large-scale VAT fraud.

Notable Cases:

Robert has been instructed as junior counsel in a number of significant cases. These include:

R v P

Sole counsel in prosecution relating to several offences under the Terrorism Act 2006.

R v W

Junior counsel in high profile murder trial.

R v LG

Junior counsel for a 17 year old defendant charged with the joint enterprise murder of a member of a rival gang.

 R v JP

Junior counsel in multi-handed murder trial.

R v MM

Sole counsel for a young man charged with offences under the Terrorism Act 2006.

R v K

Sole counsel for a man charged with several offences under the Terrorism Act 2006 relating to encouragement of terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications.

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