Louise McCloskey - 7 Harrington Street Chambers

Area of Expertise

Crime

Her defence practice involves a wide variety of cases involving sexual and serious violent offences. She recently appeared in the Court of Appeal in relation to an Attorney generals Reference to consider the sentencing of youth offenders who commit robbery offences. Her defence practice also includes Prison Law, Motoring Offences and forfeiture, detention and seizure applications.

She has been instructed junior counsel on a number of heavyweight criminal cases ranging from drug importations and child abduction to murder.

She has provided lectures on the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and hopes to commit to further lectures focusing on the implications and importance of PII applications and Defence case statements.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association
Northern Circuit

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Rachel Kehoe at Rachel.Kehoe@7HS.co.uk

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Practice Overview

Louise McCloskey is exclusively a criminal practitioner and handles all aspects of criminal law in the criminal courts at all levels.

She has built up a strong and diverse practice. She is regularly instructed by both prosecution and defence. Those who instruct her include; the Crown Prosecution Service, Probation, HM Customs and Excise, The Civil Aviation Authority, Arriva, the DSS, the Post Office and Local Authorities. She has experience of both prosecuting and defending ASBO’s, SOPO’s and football banning orders. In addition to this she has been involved in the training of officers from the department of work and pensions in relation to benefit fraud cases.

Notable/Recent Cases

Acted for the applicant in judicially reviewing the decision of a coroner where, at an inquest, the employer was found to have exposed the deceased to chemicals which caused his death. Led by leading counsel.

Advised an interested person in relation to its response and position to an application for judicial review arising from a death in a care home.

Acted for a hospital in relation to the death of a newborn baby in its maternity ward.

Acted for the insurers of a driver in relation to a road traffic collision. The case was a rare instance where the coroner had to consider a conclusion of unlawful killing, because of the standard of driving of one of the vehicles.

Acted for the healthcare provider in relation to the death of an inmate in prison. The prisoner had committed suicide, and issues included addressing the mental health risk assessments and treatment provided to the prisoner.

Acted for the employee of a specialist children’s cot supply company in an inquest arising from the death of a disabled toddler. Issues around gross negligence manslaughter and tampering with evidence were addressed at the inquest.
Acted for the owner of a farm at an inquest arising from a death on the farmyard.
Acted for the owners of a care home in relation to the death of a resident following a fall at the care home. Issues in relation to neglect, risk assessments and adequate care aids being in place were addressed.
In module one, acted as part of the team advising one of the Core Participants at the Covid Inquiry.
Was part of the team assisting on a discovery and disclosure exercise in a billion pound High Court action concerning a foreign tax law claim.