Ximena Jones

Call 2007
Email ximena.jones@3pb.co.uk
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Crime

Ximena is a criminal practitioner who appears in all criminal courts for the defence and prosecution. She is predominately instructed on the Western circuit, but also appears on the South Eastern Circuit and in London.

She has represented clients for the full range of criminal offences involving serious violence, robbery, the supply of drugs, including distribution within prison, firearm offences and multi-handed matters.

She has experience of confiscation and all forms of civil behaviour orders. She has also represented clients before the Court of Appeal. Recent instructions include violent disorder, sexual offences, perverting the course of justice, robbery and fraud.

Ximena has a keen interest in the relationship between mental disorder and crime and is regularly instructed to represent individuals who have offended in hospital whilst detained under mental health legislation.

She is on the CPS Approved List of Advocates for the Western Circuit and has appeared for the Crown for various matters.

Notable Cases

Orchard [2010] EWCA Crim 1538
Junior alone for the Appellant, psychiatric patient convicted of sexual offences on a fellow patient.

R v Abassi [2010]
Defendant alleged to have sexually attacked a stranger in Brighton town centre.

R v Connis and Others [2011]
Seven day violent disorder.

R v J and Others [2011]
Youth indicted with adults for numerous robberies and aggravated burglary.

R v Munday and Others [2010]
Perverting the course of justice. Defendants alleged to have attempted to frame the aggrieved for attempted murder.

R v Spence and Others [2011]
Trial counsel in GBH stabbing. Defendant alleged to have stabbed aggrieved with Kukri knife.

R v Unsworth and Others [2011]
Affray, indictment stayed as an abuse of process.