Derek Perry
Degree:
BA (Hons) First Class
Year of call and Inn:
2006; Gray's Inn
Professional Membership:
Western Circuit; CBA; Personal Injury Bar
Email:
[email protected]
Specialist Areas:
Crime, including Courts Martial
Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Regulatory, including Health and Safety
Practice Overview:
Derek Perry is a specialist in criminal, regulatory and personal injury law. He enjoys a reputation for
rigorous and astute evidential and legal analysis combined with effective advocacy and client care.
Areas of Practice
Crime
Derek is regularly instructed in cases of considerable gravity, complexity and sensitivity including
murder, fraud, serious sexual offences, drug supply, conspiracy, firearms and violence. Derek is a
CPS panel advocate level 2 prosecutor.
Derek is experienced in cases involving technical and complex issues of road traffic law and
accepts instructions in this area in certain circumstances.
Reported cases and cases of interest:
R v Popa and others [2010] EWCA Crim 2466 – Appeal against sentence in respect of fraudulent use
of cloned credit cards of Japanese bank customers by a group of Romanian nationals in the UK. The
court accepted that where criminal activity is within the scope of the ‘banking and insurance fraud’
sentencing guideline it is incorrect to sentence outside the prescribed range on the basis of the
impact of the offending on the commercial system since such an impact is an inherent part of any
activity to which the guideline applies.
R v Squire [2010] EWCA Crim 2190 – Appeal against sentence in respect of multiple offences of
confidence fraud and theft in breach of trust. Court held that the principle of totality overrode even
where sentences were correctly ordered to be served consecutively and where each sentence,
taken individually, was properly passed in accordance with the applicable guidelines.
R v Ling (Central Criminal Court) – Murder. Fifty-year-old Surrey gardener of previous good
character who killed his mistress after discovering her “infidelity”. Provocation defence.
R v JB (Taunton Crown Court) – Alleged rape of Complainant from the travelling community in which
both Defendant and Complainant had significant histories of mental illness.
R v Court (Taunton Crown Court) – Alleged multiple historic rape of daughter. Complaint made
following alleged sexual assault by the Defendant on the same Complainant when she was an
adult.
R v P (Bristol Crown Court) – Multiple serious sexual assaults on young daughters of two separate
work colleagues by Defendant when babysitting. Investigation lead to the discovery of nearly a
million images of children in various forms of electronic storage, approximately 200,000 of which
were charged as indecent.
R v Woodman (Taunton Crown Court) – Multi-handed kidnap, blackmail, fraud, robbery and GBH
related to the supply of class A drugs.
R v Green (Taunton Crown Court) – Multi-handed conspiracy to handle stolen goods and conspiracy
to commit fraud relating to the theft, handling, and onward sale via ebay of plant and construction
machinery valued at approximately £120,000.
Hillyer v Mendip District Council (1) and The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2) [2008]
UKUT 18 (AAC) – Appeared for the successful first respondent in one of the first ever cases to be
heard under the jurisdiction of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber). The case
gave authority on the previously undecided issue of whether or not the amendments to the law
relating to the recovery of overpayments of housing benefits introduced by the Housing Benefits
Regulations 2006 had retrospective effect.
Crime Clerks:
Bonnie Colbeck
E:[email protected]
T: 0117 311 0301
Ken Duthie
E:[email protected]
T: 0117 311 0368
Regulatory
Derek has significant experience in regulatory cases including prosecutions brought by the HSE,
RSPCA, DEFRA, Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency, VOSA and local authorities. Such
cases have involved domestic and agricultural animal welfare, agricultural regulation, handling and
disposal of commercial waste, commercial fishing regulation, food hygiene, tachograph
enforcement, planning enforcement and trading standards offences. He has experience of public
inquiries before the Traffic Commissioner, actions brought by Companies House and Social Security
Law.
Derek also undertakes licensing cases including contentious applications for the grant and variation
of premises licences, applications relating to designated premises supervisors, transfer applications
and reviews.
Clerk:
Nick Jeanes
E: [email protected]
T: 0117 311 0307
Personal Injury
In addition to his criminal and regulatory practice Derek accepts personal injury instructions
including complex multi-track cases. He acts for Claimants and Defendants and has experience of
successfully defending claims arising from staged RTAs.
Clerk:
Stephen Arnold
E: [email protected]
T: 0117 311 0310
Albion Chambers
Broad Street
Bristol
BS1 1DR
Telephone: 0117 927 2144
www.albionchambers.co.uk