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Nigel Ley

Year of Call

1969 (Grays Inn)

Memberships

• Criminal Bar Association
• Revenue Bar Association
• Administrative Law Bar Association
• Association Professional Negligence Bar Association

Publications

• Joint Editor of Butterworths Road Traffic Service - Leading encyclopedia on road traffic law
• Author of 'The Law on Drinking and Driving'- Sweet and Maxwell
• Author of 'The law on False imprisonment' (Jordans) - The only sole publication dedicated to false imprisonment

Profile

Nigel's practice encompasses all areas of Common law and boasts a wealth of reported cases from the High Court & Court of Appeal. He has defended cases of the utmost complexity and gravity, With particular expertise concerning Road Traffic offences, Libel, Civil actions against the Police, and Slander.

Recently reported cases include

• DPP -v- Darwen QB [2007] EWHC 337 (Admin)
• Parker -v- DPP 2006: Whether the Government could use the EC act 1972 to amend primary legislation by secondary legislation where the secondary legislation went beyond that required by the EC Treaty
• Murphy -v- DPP QB [2006] EWHC 1753 (Admin)
• Scheiner -v- DPP [2006] All Er (d) 110 (Jun)
• R -v- Goodsir - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) [2006] EWCA Crim 852