Joe Weeks


YEAR OF CALL 2022

Joe has a busy practice in Crown Court work, with experience beyond his call in serious crime, drugs, fraud, sexual offences and violence. He is measured and persuasive with judges and juries alike.

Joe accepts instructions to defend and prosecute in all areas of Chambers’ work and is regularly instructed as a led junior in multi-handed cases. He takes client care seriously and combines clear, strategic advice with compassion and patience for those involved in the criminal justice system.

As a led junior, he has recently dealt with a large-scale drugs conspiracy, a conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life, and a decade-long fraud against elderly victims. As a junior alone his instructions include counterfeiting, sexual offending involving evidence from undercover officers and the supply of large amounts of cocaine.

Joe has experience as independent counsel advising on matters of legal professional privilege in the execution of search warrants. He has been instructed by the National Crime Agency in civil applications for preventative orders and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to prosecute companies for tax offences.

Joe is currently acting for the appellant in the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, in appeals against conviction and sentence. He also accepts instructions in the Magistrates’ and Youth Courts.

RECENT CASES

MEMBERSHIPS

CPS Advocate Panel, Level 2

PRIZES / AWARDS

Reader’s Scholarship, Middle Temple

Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition, Middle Temple

EDUCATION

BA (Hons) Jurisprudence, Trinity College, Oxford