Kieran Brand

Recommendations

Education

Law LLB (Hons)

Appointments

Grade 3 CPS Panel Advocate (London and South East)

Memberships

• Criminal Bar Association
• South East Circuit

Notable Cases

• R v CR (2022) Representing a defendant with a split personality disorder, amongst other mental health issues, acquitted of sexually assaulting the 8 year old daughter of his former partner.
• R v PA (2022) Represented a man acquitted of the rape and other serious sexual offending against his 14 year old step-daughter.
• R v RB (2021) Defending a man charged with historic indecent assaults of complainants aged between 5 and 8 in the 1990s.
• R v GR & Others (2021) Prosecuting four defendants charged with the stabbing of a teenage girl and the subsequent intimidation of witnesses present at the scene.
• R v TN (2021) Defending a man acquitted of allegations of rape and other sexual misconduct made by two separate complainants.
• R v CG & Others (2021) Defending a child with significant learning difficulties alleged to have been be part of a group who intentionally inflicted life changing injuries to a German student who was visiting the UK.
• R v AK & Another (2021) Defending one of two men acquitted of rape.
• R v TD & Others (2021) Defending one of a group of people charged with a conspiracy to transfer criminal property totalling c.£12 million using international lorry drivers.
• R v DW & Others (2020) Led junior representing the director of a renewable energy company acquitted of the fraudulent sale of solar panels and related energy products to elderly and vulnerable consumers across the country.
• R v MP (2020) Defending a foreign lorry driver charged with causing the death of a motorcyclist by driving dangerously.
• R v TM (2020) Prosecuting a man convicted of wounding with intent and perverting the course of justice after he stabbed a man and then provided a false account to the police as to the identity of the assailants.
• R v BI & Another (2019) Defending a foreign coach driver acquitted of smuggling illegal entrants into the UK inside a purpose-built hide constructed within the luggage compartment of his coach.
• R v VC & Another (2019) Defending a man charged with conspiring to cause explosions after he and others had used IEDs to blow up ATMs and steal their contents.
• R v HA (2019) Defending a man charged with sexual assault and rape.
• R v CD & Others (2019) Led junior defending a man charged with conspiracy to kidnap and cause GBH with intent.
• R v SS & Others (2019) Defending 1 of over 20 prisoners involved in a mutiny at HMP Swaleside.
• R v CD & Others (2018) Led junior defending a man charged with conspiracy to supply over a million pounds worth of class A drugs.
• R v CD (2018) Prosecuting a man charged with trafficking 7 illegal entrants into the United Kingdom in the back of the van.
• R v SK (2018) Defending a man acquitted of raping a homeless woman he had invited into his home after finding her sleeping rough.
• R v PS (2018) Defending a man charged with the historic sexual abuse of his nieces in the 1990s when they were aged between 5 and 10 years.
• R v GM (2018) Defending a man charged with the historic sexual abuse, including attempted rape, of his step-daughter.
• R v MC & Others (2018) Led junior defending one of a number of men accused of misconduct in a public office arising out of an undercover Panorama programme, which allegedly exposed the mistreatment of detainees by staff at the Medway Secure Training Centre.
• R v DR (2017) Defending a man charged with sexually abusing his daughter when she was aged between 5 and 7 years. She was aged 8 when she gave evidence at trial.
• R v MT (2016) Defending a man charged with 12 sexual offences, including rape of a child under 13, committed against the daughters and half-sister of a family friend. The victims were aged 6, 7 and 11 respectively.
• R v JC & Others (2015) Led junior defending a man charged with sexually abusing 16 boys in his care at an approved school throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
• R v JA & Another (2015) Defending a man acquitted of knowingly importing class A drugs into the UK.
• R v P (2015) Defending a man charged with rape.
• R v D (2015) Defending a man acquitted of affray and wounding with intent arising out of a street fight between two gangs of foreign nationals in Folkestone.
• R v CG (2014) Defending a man charged with the indecent assault and rape of his younger half-sister in the late 1990s when they were both children.
• R v M & Another (2014) Defending one of two men charged with armed robbery arising out of a turf war between two rival drug suppliers.
• R v C & Others (2013) Defending one of a group of men charged with conspiracy to steal who had been masquerading as police officers and stealing money from foreign nationals.
• R v S (2013) Defending a man acquitted of unlawfully wounding his partner with a meat cleaver.

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