Keir Monteith

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Keir's practice covers a broad range of cases from civil liberties protesters and inquests to frauds, large-scale importations and serious violence. amongst others he has led on a "Microsoft" counterfeiting case, a multi-million pound cigarette importation, a double handed multi count armed robbery and a double shooting with a sawn off pump action shotgun.

Notable Cases

Keir also has significant experience in the court of appeal and four cases of note are:

R v Heggart [2001] 4 Archbold news 2, ca (page 1257 Archbold 2002); deals with the issue of disclosure and that the old;custom; of blacking out telephone numbers on cad reports should stop.

Director of Public Prosecutions v Jones [2002] EWHC 110 (admin); right to protest and public order notices.

R v Jeremy Paul Pepper: R v Kenneth Leslie Barber : R v Martin Lamont : R v G : R v Richard Alexander Murray [2005] EWCA Crim 1181 - guidance on extended sentences under the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 s.85

R v Michael Robson (2006) [2006] EWCA crim 2749 - A conviction for murder was quashed and a verdict of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility was substituted where the trial judge had delivered a jury direction on diminished responsibility along the same lines as that which was held to be a misdirection in R v Dietschmann (Anthony) (2003) UKHL 10, (2003) Crim LR 550.

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