Christopher Sallon QC

Christopher Sallon, Queen's Counsel, specialises in high-profile, general crime, with a focus on fraud, cases which involve medicine and forensic science, appellate work, regulatory work and extradition. He has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees and is a member of the Independent Advisory Group of the Forensic Science Service.

He is a recommended specialist fraud and general crime practitioner in Chambers and Partners 2010 Directory. Recent cases include Government of Kenya v Archbishop Deya (extradition appeal), R v Yemoh & W, 2009 EWCA Crim 930 (principles of secondary party joint enterprise in murder); and Kenny Cornwall v R (jury bias).

Other notable cases include R v Shaun Lynch (conspiracy to defraud Betfair), R v Graham Coutts (murder retrial after a successful appeal to the House of Lords), R v Siôn Jenkins (murder retrials involving multi-disciplinary and complex scientific and medical evidence); R v Fisher (Jubilee Line fraud); R v Turpin (SAS officer accused of spying in the first criminal case of industrial espionage to be tried in England); and R v Coulton (police officer in the Royal Protection Squad accused of murdering his wife).

Appellate work includes R v Powell, R v English (redefining the doctrine of joint enterprise in murder); R v Foxley (MOD official charged with corruption).
He was appointed Specialist Adviser to the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons in relation to their Enquiry into Propriety and Honours, and his written advice in relation to the reforming the law in relation to corruption is annexed to the Committee's Second Report 2007-8. He was also appointed Counsel to the Constitutional Affairs Committee's Enquiry into Party Funding.

He represented the Forensic Science Service in relation to the Independent Home Office Review into forensic work carried out during the investigation into the death of Damilola Taylor. He represents the Government of Trinidad in the prosecution of a former minister for corruption.

2009 lectures include Confiscation and Asset Recovery Across Borders and Civil Recovery Orders (Butterworths Conference); New Corporate Offence in Bribery Bill (Doughty Street/Bindman Conference); Criminal Breaches of Copyright ; Expert Evidence in Criminal Trials (Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference); Forensic Medicine and Science in Criminal Trials (Trinidad and Tobago Criminal Bar Association).

He is licensed to accept direct access work.

He came to the Bar after working for the United Nations in New York. He has lectured at universities throughout the United States, including Yale and Stanford in 2007, on trial advocacy and comparative civil liberty issues, and in 2006 he delivered a William Reece Smith Distinguished Lecture at Stetson University, Florida. In 1996 he was the first British QC to be elected as an honorary Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. He is also a member of the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean. He was a member of the Bar working party appointed to make submissions into the Guildford and Woolwich Bombings and the Roberts Working Party on Serious Fraud.

Formerly the Bar Council's Chairman of Public Affairs, Christopher Sallon broadcasts on radio and appears on television. He took part in the BBC's three-part series 'Trial by Jury'. He is a member of the board of the National Campaign for the Arts. He sits as a Recorder of the Crown Court. He was appointed a bencher of Gray's Inn in 2002.

Year of Call

1973

Queen's Counsel

1994

Education

Recorder 1996

Email Address

c.sallon@doughtystreet.co.uk

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Specialist Teams

Member :

• Criminal Law
• Extradition
• Human Rights
• International Law Group
• Regulatory and Financial Crime