Peter Wilcock KC joins Doughty Street Chambers

Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to welcome Peter Wilcock KC who joins our Inquests and Public Inquiries team from Garden Court Chambers.

Peter is a highly distinguished silk with a broad and prominent practice encompassing high-profile inquiries, inquests, criminal trials, and appellate work. He has also served as a Mental Health Review Tribunal Judge for over 20 years.

Peter’s inquest practice includes representing seven families who lost loved ones during the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster and leading the questioning on the topics of the design of Hillsborough stadium, the decision to open the stadium gates, and the subsequent police cover-up on behalf of the 77 families represented by the Hillsborough Family Support Group along with numerous other cases involving deaths in custody—whether in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, or as a result of police shootings and other police activity. Since 2023, he has been engaged in the ongoing Covid Inquiry, jointly leading a team of two KCs and five junior counsel representing Northern Irish families who lost loved ones during the pandemic.

His criminal defence work spans the full spectrum of serious crime, including murder (whether premeditated, spontaneous, or domestic in nature, and often involving complex scientific or evidential issues), serious sexual offences, organised crime, and fraud. Peter appears regularly in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and has appeared before both the House of Lords and the Supreme Court.

Read Peter’s full profile here.

To learn more about Peter, contact Civil Clerk, Grace Walton.

For queries regarding Peter's criminal practice please contact our Senior Crime Clerk Matthew Butchard.