Pete Weatherby

Practice

Predominately practises in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool.

Crime: full range of defence work including murder, manslaughter, GBH, armed robbery, public order, drugs, theft and fraud. Particularly interested in cases with a civil liberties dimension, or political, prison law or mental health aspects. Has an increasingly appellate practice and has appeared in a number of miscarriage cases in recent years.

Civil: limited practice comprising actions against the police and general prisoners' rights law.

Prisons: High Court applications (judicial review and habeus corpus) regarding conditions, rules and release dates. Actions against the Home Office for assault and negligence. Representation at 'Discretionary Lifers panels', and the new style adjudications. Has appeared in the Court of Appeal, House of Lords and Court of Human Rights in respect to false imprisonment, Article 6 (adjudications), and Article 2 (prison death inquests) cases.

Inquests: representation of families of persons who die in police or prison custody. Also judicial review of inquest decisions and rulings.

Other activities

Also a tenant of Garden Court North, Manchester.

Societies

Liberty and INQUEST Lawyers Group.

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