Gordon Carse

Practice Profile

Gordon is a specialist and successful trial advocate. He has extensive experience in serous and complex criminal cases, frequently acting as a leading junior.

Gordon accepts instructions on behalf of the defence and the Crown involving all forms of serious offending, but in particular cases of murder, manslaughter, serious violence, drugs, money laundering and serious sexual offences. Gordon is regularly instructed in complex multi-handed cases with voluminous papers requiring attention to detail and forensic analysis. Current instructions include an individual charged with a large-scale fraud, in which the defendant headed a conspiracy using client details he had mined when working for a well-known firm of Criminal Solicitors.

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Reported Cases

• R -v- JD [2021] EWCA Crim 1866 – Consecutive sentences; Determinate sentences; Licence periods
• R -v- TA [2016] EWCA Crim 668 – Admissibility; Attempts; Bad character; Gangs; Murder
• R -v- ML [2018] EWCA Crim 2536 – Mens rea; No case to answer; Prosecution appeals
• R -v- MA [2014] EWCA Crim 1382 - Breach; Sentence length; Sexual offences prevention orders
• R v AM [2013] EWCA Crim 850 - Disparity of sentence; Guilty pleas; Joint enterprise; Offending on bail; Robbery; Separate trials; Totality of sentence; Serious offences
• R -v- AH [2011] EWCA Crim 2227 - Burglary; Custodial sentences; Disqualification from driving; Disqualification periods; Proportionality; Rehabilitation - Interpretation and construction of s.147 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000.
• R -v- C; R -v- T [2010] EWCA Crim 761 - Post-verdict communication from jurors

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