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E: alexkrikler@mac.com Call: 1995 Academic Background: BA (Economics) Manchester university, Law conversion Westminster University, Inn of Court School of Law, PERSONAL INTERESTS He is well travelled and dabbles in several languages, to the amusement of those who can actually speak them! |
AREAS OF EXPERTISE Alex specialises exclusively in criminal law. He has been instructed in a number of high profile cases and has developed a reputation as a skilled, dedicated, and successful advocate. He is of the view that by both prosecuting and defending, he has gained an enhanced understanding and appreciation of trial advocacy, to the advantage of his clients. He is an experienced defence barrister. Defence work accounts for the majority of his practice. He has been instructed in the following areas: terrorism, violent crime, including attempted murder, false imprisonment, cases involving torture, sexual offences, including gun-point rape and offences committed by and against children, cases involving indecent images, firearms offences, robbery including gun-point robbery, and conspiracy to rob, drugs offences, including large scale production and importation, large scale financial crime. As can be seen his practice is varied and wide ranging and he has taken on some unusual cases. He has recently represented (Junior to Stuart Trimmer QC) the head of the British Nazi Party in a case at the Central Criminal Court, involving conspiracy to incite racial hatred. He has represented a solicitor (junior to Karina Arden) prosecuted by the OISC. He has also recently represented a graffiti artist who was the first defendant in a large conspiracy to cause criminal damage, which involved damage running into millions of pounds, and was the largest prosecution ever brought by the British Transport Police in this area. He has had some notable successes in the Court of Appeal, most recently (March 09) having a sentence of 32 months reduced to 8 months on appeal, resulting in the immediate release of his client. He is an experienced prosecutor (London grade 3), taking on a wide variety of work. He has prosecuted large-scale multi-handed cases as well as delicate cases involving public interest immunity. He has recently prosecuted gun-point robbery cases, cases of extreme violence, kidnap(junior), large scale public disorder offences involving weapons, large scale drugs cases, high value financial crime. ASSOCIATED WORK He has taught criminal law to LLB students at Westminster University and has lectured (CPD accredited) on youth sentencing. |
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