David Lane QC

Bar Call/Inn 1968

Gray’s Inn 

Education
LLB, AKC, King’s College London

Appointments
Recorder 1982
Silk 1991

Areas of Practice
Criminal Law
General Common Law
Trade Mark Infringements
Commercial Fraud
Transport Fraud

Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association 

David Lane QC has been a leader in his field of Criminal Law for almost 40 years and has an extensive practice in murder, manslaughter, arson and fraud crimes. He has appeared for the appellant in the leading House of Lords appeals of Beese and Osterman (1973) (extradition, foreign policeman and Judges’ Rules); in Forbes (2002) (importation of obscene material); in Johnstone (2003) (Trades Mark Act 1994, statutory defence and burden of proof).