Joanthan Devlin
Jonathan Devlin has been a trial advocate in practice from Chambers in Leeds since 1979, having been called to the Bar in 1978. He has developed a mainly criminal practice, although he has had considerable experience in civil litigation (personal injury, clinical negligence and professional negligence) and licensing. He is said to have an ability to communicate well with defence clients. He is able to put the victims of crime, particularly those who have been the victims of sexual offences, at ease when explaining the Court process.
His criminal practice is divided between prosecution and defence instructions. He has been instructed by both prosecution and defence in cases of different levels of gravity up to and including homicide. In prosecuting cases of homicide and serial rape, he has borne the responsibility of assessing large quantities of unused material for the purposes of disclosure and public interest immunity applications.
In one case in particular (allegations of serial rape, murder and attempted murder), the offences covered a period of some 15 years, the investigations into which had generated tens of thousands of actions, messages, officers’ reports and other documents.
With a medical upbringing (both of his parents having been doctors in general practice), he has a particular interest in criminal and civil cases involving medical issues and causation.
He has particular expertise in cases involving allegations of child sex abuse (both current and historic) and cases involving the possession, making and distribution of indecent images of children.
He has both prosecuted and defended cases of infant homicide involving issues relating to the causation of brain injuries suffered by the victims.
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