Stephen McNally

Steve practices in all areas of criminal law and appears on behalf of the prosecution and defence.  He is a Category 3 prosecutor.

 

His diary regularly comprises cases involving serious violence, drugs, firearms and sexual assaults.  He has been involved in cases of conspiracy to murder, manslaughter, rape and large scale drugs conspiracies.

 

Steve is a VHCC panel advocate and has conducted such cases involving drugs, firearms and fraud allegations on behalf of both the prosecution and the defence.

 

Steve is particularly IT literate having been an artificial intelligence software engineer before becoming a Barrister.

 

He regards himself as approachable, pragmatic and down-to-earth and always takes a team approach to cases.

 

Recent cases have included:

 

Drugs

 

Operation Greengage - 2nd Junior; defending in a large-scale (over 20 defendants) conspiracy to import drugs and firearms.

 

Operation Undercoat - prosecution junior in a 15-handed multi million pound drugs conspiracy.

 

R v Turnbull – defended in 4-handed Class A drugs conspiracy.

 

R v Hinkley – defended in a 10-handed Class A drugs conspiracy.

 

Murder/Attempted Murder

 

R v Gee – 2nd Junior in a conspiracy to murder, blackmail and threats to kill (prosecution).

 

R v Hill – 2nd Junior in an attempted murder and witness intimidation case (prosecution).

 

R v Lucas – defence counsel in a double attempt murder indictment

 

Firearms

 

R v Dillon – prosecuted possession of firearms case where mandatory minimum sentence provisions applied.

 

R v Day – defended possession of firearm case.

 

Violence

 

R v Abbas & Abbas – prosecuted 2 brothers for a ‘punishment’ knife attack on a 15 year old boy who had been selling drugs on their behalf.

 

R v Armstrong, Carruthers & Day – prosecuted three defendants who falsely imprisoned, assaulted and shot with an air weapon a vulnerable victim.

 

R v Bennett – prosecuted a section18 stabbing with complex hearsay issues. There were no prosecution witnesses and there was expert evidence that the Defendant had no recollection of the incident.

 

R v Brown (and others) – Defended the first Defendant on the Indictment in a 4-handed double s.18 alleging the use of weapons. A successful submission of ‘no-case to answer’ was made.

 

Robbery

 

R v McDermott – defended in a 4-handed “cash-in-transit” robbery.

 

R v Hull – represented an 18-year old defendant on an allegation of knife point robbery.

 

R v Lowe – second defendant in a 3-handed robbery at a dwelling where an axe was produced.

 

Fraud

 

R v Young - 2nd Junior in a 5-handed large scale vehicle VAT fraud (prosecution)

 

R v Mason – prosecuted Defendant who had various identities and had defrauded an elderly man of significant savings.

 

R v McCracken - 3-handed identification fraud based on credit cards and mortgages (defence)

 

R v Southern - 2nd Junior in a large-scale cigarette tax evasion (defence)

 

 

Email: mcnally@exchangechambers.co.uk