Robert Dacre

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 IH

Junior counsel in a large ‘cash for crash’ insurance fraud.

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 BW

Junior counsel in large VAT fraud.

 R v JP

Junior counsel in multi-handed murder trial.

R v K

Junior counsel multi-handed trial involving a 6 month county lines Class A drug conspiracy.

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.