Neil Fryman

Bar Call/Inn

1989

Middle Temple

Education

LLB (Hons) Leicester University

Areas of Practice

For the first 10 years or so, Neil had a general common law practice including family, personal injury and largely criminal law. Over the last few years he has practised solely in crime as it has become increasingly specialized. He has a healthy mixture of both prosecution and defence work. Neil is a member of the Northern Circuit and of the Criminal Bar Association.

He is a Grade 4 prosecutor (2007) and also prosecutes theft and fraud for the Post Office. He deals with cases involving the Serious Organised Crime Agency (S.O.C.A.).

He is regularly instructed on all manner of cases, including murder, rape, firearms, robbery and drugs.   

Notable cases include: 
One of the largest ever cannabis importation cases in the UK (Scarlett and others 2003)

A drugs related headless corpse murder (Walker 2003)

The Pit Bull Crew gangland murder Conviction Appeal on joint enterprise (Butt and Gordon 2004)

Paedophile murderer (Read 2005)

Drugs related murder with screens in the dock between defendants (Warren Matthews and others 2006)

Operation Rochefort – prosecuting 14-handed set top box fraud (Arain and others);

Arson with intent to endanger life – non-English speaking defendant blowing up his own home, and represented by his son and McKenzie friend (Cheng 2006)

Operation Proportion – prosecuting 26 defendants for class A drugs supply (Keenan and others 2006-8)

Operation Tea. Conspiracy to commit armed robbery (Chapman and others 2007)

Rare prosecution of Child Destruction under the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 (Maisha Mohammed 2007);

The Conviction Appeal in the Stockport MOT testers double murder (Bourke 2007 from 1993)

Multiple rapist (Brooks 2007)

Double murder (Blair and others 2007)

Operation Moth – Cocaine factory conspiracy (Dowie and others 2007/8);

Most recently, Neil acted for the youngest defendant, aged 15, in the Gary Newlove murder in Warrington, heard at Chester Crown Court, which resulted in an acquittal for his client (Adam Swellings and others Nov. 2007 – Jan 2008). 

Neil is particularly computer literate and welcomes instructions by email