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Call: 1968
Academic Background:
Clifton College and Manchester University 2.1 with firsts in property and tax law.
Called November 1968 Inner Temple; probably the last person to have passed the Bar Finals without attending a single lecture on the course.
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Script-writer.
Chess at County standard (drew with CHO`D Alexander in simultaneous0. Bridge, (current holder, with wife Sheila, of Thomas Tausz Trophy).
Best known as a writer of programme notes, having written for the Amadeus, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Brendel, the ECO, the LPO, Menhuin, Academy of St Martins, Rubinstein and over 200 others.
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Heavy crime, but expert on motoring law having been political advisor on 1988 Road Traffic Legislation. Never wanted to be a QC and never applied.
Hugo Young in the Guardian comments:"Mr Philip Levy is a reassuring specimen of the kind of legal service available among the advocates hacking around the unchronicled courts of London… his demeanour in Court is that of a hardened defender… Mr Levy has the air of menace about him. Although sometimes his cross-examinations seem forlorn, they carry a sense of heavy, if not impenetrable moment. When it became clear what he was seeking to show, his delivery became accelerated and his lucidity became unmistakable."
CASES OF NOTE
R v Bertie Smalls 1973 (First Supergrass).
Sullam v Hicks (Trade Descriptions) [1983] 147 JP 493 (DC).
R v Skidmore (Sentencing Recidivists) [1983] Crim Law Rev 407 (CA).
R v Orgles (Jury) [1993] 98 Cr App Rep 185 (CA).
R v Wheelhouse (Aiders and Abettors) [1994] Crim Law Rev 756 (CA).
R v Blake (Pirate Radio) [1997] 1 Cr App Rep 209 (CA).
R v X and Y 1998 (SAS case).
R v Gingell (Handling) [2000] 1 Cr App Rep 88. (CA).
R v TW [2001] 1 Cr App Rep 128 (S) (damage to education grounds for reducing sentence for young sex offender.
R v Cash {2004} (148(SJ) 416 (CA) (New evidence rape).
R v Golding [2007] 2 Cr App Rep (S) 66 (CA) (escape sentence).
R v Montgomery [2008] (CA)(leading case on definition of escape).
R v SW (2009) (Ipswich Crown Court leading Simon Gladwell) (First person arrested by Serious Organised Crime Agency, conspiracy to supply one ton of cocaine). Codefendant convicted and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. SW acquitted.
PREVIOUS CAREER
Formerly a financial journalist and university law lecturer.
Occasional contributor to professional journals.
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