Philip Stott

Call 2004
BA (Hons) BVC

Practice: Crime and Regulatory

Summary

Philip Stott is a junior barrister with a successful practice in prosecuting and defending as a sole junior, and as a led junior, in cases of robbery, assault, theft, drugs, fraud and many other categories of criminal offences.

He is experienced in the field of professional regulation, in particular defending medical professionals at the GMC and NMC, and also has appeared in the Coroner’s Court.

As a sole junior, he has successfully both defended and prosecuted cases of fraud relating to benefits, criminal records and false documents and is experienced in trading standards litigation in the criminal courts.

In addition he has significant experience in being led in cases of serious crime, including drug dealing, murder, fraud and in crimes requiring specialist knowledge and expert witnesses. He regularly defends on a private basis individuals who are accused of dishonesty, assault or road traffic matters in the magistrates’ and Crown Courts.

Recent Work

Philip was led junior for the prosecution across the whole of ‘Operation Eaglewood’, also known as R v Iktilat and others. This was the largest case prosecuted by the CPS Special Casework Division London, involving over thirty defendants, including Simon Ford, a fireman commended for his actions on 7/7, who pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply of 100 kg of cocaine. Philip was instructed in all trials taking place at four Crown Court centres over a two-year period. Philip has also conducted the vast majority of the subsequent confiscation proceedings, resulting in the seizure of £5 million pounds under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Philip is currently instructed as a led junior for the prosecution in a 20-handed robbery and burglary conspiracy case to be heard at Kingston-Upon-Thames Crown Court.

In addition to his criminal practice, Philip defends medical professionals facing disciplinary tribunals. He is currently instructed to defend, as a sole junior, a number of doctors facing allegations of misconduct or deficient professional standards before the GMC, and a number of nursing practitioners at the NMC.

Philip recently represented the next-of-kin of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan at a inquest held by HM Coroner for Swindon and Wiltshire. This was in relation to the ‘Blue 25’ killing of five UK soliders by a rogue Afghan National Police officer in Helmand Province in November 2009.

He has recent experience of appearing before Fitness to Practice and Interim Orders Panels at the General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Dental Council, General Social Care Council and General Osteopathic Council.

Career Details

Philip has been led at the General Medical Council, successfully representing a doctor charged with a raft of offences relating to indecent images of children. This case involved analysis of highly technical computer evidence relating to Operation Ore and the ‘Landslide‘ network.

He has acted as a led junior for a defendant charged with perverting the course of justice, tried alongside defendants charged with murder and was a led junior for a defendant in the UK’s largest Working Family Tax Credit fraud. This case involved a substantial amount of expert evidence relating to computers, and also required the preparation of visual material to make financial evidence digestible to the jury.

He has also acted as a led junior for the Special Casework Directorate of the CPS in the successful prosecution of a civil servant working in the Home Office for misconduct in relation to the issue of over 200 false travel documents.

He was instructed to prosecute as a sole junior a six-handed trial at the Central Criminal Court in relation to £100,000 worth of credit card fraud, investigated by the City of London Police Economic Cheque and Credit Card Unit

Philip has acted as a sole junior in the defence of doctors at the General Medical Council on a number of Fitness to Practice Hearings, including an anaesthetist accused of the falsification of medical records, and a surgeon accused of misleading the police in relation to a road traffic accident.

Furthermore, Philip has, in addition to his regulatory defence work, also acted for the Nursing and Midwifery Council at Fitness to Practice hearings, including prosecutions of nurses and midwives accused of deficient care, misadministration of drugs and falsification of record keeping.

He also has represented the Security Industry Authority in licensing appeals and has particular knowledge of the impact of immigration law in this area.

Philip has also advised Channel Four television on potential liability of criminal prosecution for broadcasting violent and dangerous stunts and activities.

Additional Information

Member of Young Fraud Lawyers Association
Member of Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
Member of Criminal Bar Association
Committee Member Society for Ethics and Law in Anaesthesia, Intensive care & Pain Medicine
Qualified to accept instructions under Bar Direct Access rules.

Grade 3 Prosecutor


Chambers Equality and Diversity Officer

Education

BA (Hons) History, Queens’ College, Cambridge
Post-Graduate Diploma in Law, City University, London
Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law