Chris Daw QC - Justice on Trial: Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point...

This week on our Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna is joined by Chris Daw QC. 

Chris is one of the UK’s leading barristers, specialising in criminal law, serious fraud, business regulation and professional discipline. Chris was called to the Bar in 1993 and was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 2013.

Chris’s principal client base covers professionals, business people, high net worth individuals and public figures. In addition to criminal and regulatory proceedings in Courts and Tribunals, Chris is an expert in pre-charge advice and strategy as well as the criminal law implications of commercial disputes.

Chris recently published his best-selling book, Justice on Trial, which discusses how our criminal justice system is broken. Chris produces articles for The Spectator and is passionately committed to social mobility in education and the legal profession.

Chris has recorded for BBC around social mobility and produced a 5-part series, "Crime - Are We Tough Enough?" Which takes a 360-degree look at our criminal justice!

In this episode, Chris discusses:

• His background and interest in the legal profession 
• Building his practice - gathering experience, whilst learning on the job
• Mentoring for the General Counsel of the Bar of England & Wales
• Motivations behind writing his book
• The legalisation of drugs within a regulated system and the US criminal system

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