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Callum Church

Year of Call: 2018
Email Address: [email protected]

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Clerks Details

  • Clerk Name: Stuart Pringle
  • Clerk Telephone: 01962 868884
  • Clerk Email: [email protected]

Motoring offences

Callum gained significant experience of Motoring and Road Traffic Law during his pupillage, and this interest has been maintained throughout his practice. He is instructed to Defend in both the Magistrates and Crown Court, generally on a private-paying basis. His meticulous preparation means that he is able to apply this technical and developing area of law to his advantage, and his persuasive courtroom advocacy allows him to deploy his knowledge successfully.

R v DD (2024) – Instructed as trial counsel on a late return, Callum devised and deployed a special reasons argument for a man in relation to causing serious injury by dangerous driving. As a result, the Defendant received 5 points for an offence carrying otherwise mandatory disqualification, allowing a professional driver to keep his license.

R v MP [2025] - Instructed to defend a prominent musician accused of failing to provide a sample of blood, where the reasonable excuse put forward was the Defendant’s Rastafarian beliefs. The Defendant was acquitted after a successful half-time submission.

R v SC [2025] - Instructed to defend a business owner at the appeal stage, who had been wrongly named under a s.172 notice and disqualified from driving. Appeal granted in the Crown Court without opposition following submissions to the Prosecution.

  • Recommendations

    “Callum is a highly intelligent, thoughtful and hard-working advocate who defends fearlessly and well. He has an excellent bedside manner with lay clients and an easy affability with his solicitors, who trust him with cases beyond which those of his call would ordinarily be instructed.” Legal 500, 2026

    “Callum is an energetic and positive advocate who always demonstrates commitment to his cases with admirable enthusiasm.” Legal 500, 2025

    “Callum is thorough, patient and extremely well-prepared. He is unflappable in difficult situations.” Legal 500, 2024

    “Callum’s calm and confident advocacy, coupled with his ability to communicate complex legal arguments clearly and persuasively, greatly contributed to the positive outcome of the case… It was a privilege to be represented by a barrister of such calibre, at such a difficult time.” Lay client, Operation Kenn

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