Michael Conlon

Background

About Michael Conlon

Michael comes from a Human Rights and Common Law background but has focused in more recent years on Criminal, Road Traffic, Employment, Cross Border Insolvency, Regulatory, Health and Safety and Personal Injury laws. Called to the Bar in 1984, at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple by David Tudor Price, the then Common Sergeant of London, Michael practiced in London and the Midlands before becoming one of the founder members of St. Albans Chambers in 1998. Michael is happy to be instructed on behalf of defendants and prosecuting authorities. He has appeared in a wide range of complex matters including child abuse, serious fraud litigated by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, money laundering, breach of copyright, drug trafficking and those involving sexual and dangerously violent offenders such as rape and attempted murder trials. Careful preparation and thorough presentation of the legal and factual matrices are of the essence to his approach to advocacy. Michael is by consensus “a safe pair of hands”. In January 2007, he represented an Appellant who had sacked his legal team, against a mandatory life sentence with a minimum term of twenty-seven years for murder with a firearm. Frequently Michael has been called upon to represent first team professional football players including at Premiership level in Road Traffic matters. A six month snap shot shows that in the Crown Court at Leicester, Michael successfully defended one of eight defendants, a Cameroonian gangster, in an alleged conspiracy to defraud, to the value of This was followed by a much-needed holiday after which he represented a defendant in the Crown Court at Nottingham, gaining acquittals after a trial of attempted murder and armed robbery.