Oliver Edwin James Glasgow KC (born 6 January 1972) is a

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who specialises in

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. Since November 2015 he served as one of the Senior Treasury Counsel at the

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, prosecuting serious criminal cases. On 1 January 2021 he was appointed First Senior Treasury Counsel by the Attorney General,

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KC.

Early life

The eldest son of Edwin Glasgow

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QC (born 1945), Glasgow was educated at

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, graduating with

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. He was

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from the

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in 1995 and practised as a barrister at the Central Criminal Court and on the

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Career at the Bar

Glasgow practises at 2 Hare Court, chambers of Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting major crime and prosecuting and defending in

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cases. In 2016 Glasgow was appointed

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Notable cases

Defence

* In January 2017 Glasgow acted for the

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in a Court Martial review, advising MoD and the Security Services in the case of British Marine Alexander Blackman, who was convicted of murdering a wounded Taliban fighter in November 2013. * In 2016 Glasgow represented

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, accused of gross negligence manslaughter of a patient who underwent surgical abortion. A doctor and two nurses from the charity were subsequently acquitted of killing a woman who bled to death after travelling from Ireland to the UK for an abortion, however Judge Nicholas Cooke QC demanded a review into what "went wrong".

Prosecution

* In 2017 Glasgow acted in the prosecution of Ismael Watson, a 27-year-old Liverpudlian formerly known as Jack, who tried to travel to Syria after being radicalised by jihadists online. Watson flew to Turkey in 2016 and tried to cross the border into war-torn Syria in February 2017. However, he was intercepted by the Turkish authorities and deported to the UK after vowing to carry out terrorist atrocities during encrypted chats with undercover

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agents. * In 2015 Glasgow prosecuted

Constance Briscoe Constance Briscoe (born 18 May 1957 in England) is a former barrister, and was one of the first black female recorders in England and Wales. In May 2014, she was jailed for three counts of doing an act tending to pervert the course of justice in ...

, a barrister and part-time judge who was imprisoned for perverting the course of justice. Briscoe, a recorder and tribunal judge, lied to the police during the investigation into Pryce and Huhne and thereafter provided false documentation in order to deceive the officers who were investigating her conduct. She was imprisoned for 16 months in May after an Old Bailey jury found her guilty of perverting the course of justice. She was removed from the judiciary in August 2015 and released from prison in November 2016 after serving less than half her sentence, but has not undertaken any judicial duties since her arrest in October 2012. At the costs hearing, Glasgow told the judge, Mr Justice Baker, that the crown wanted £89,246.33 from Briscoe towards prosecution costs. * In 2014 Glasgow prosecuted Cavendish Masonry, a stone masonry company which was charged with corporate manslaughter after one of its employees was crushed to death on a large estate in Oxfordshire. The

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, Cavendish Masonry Ltd, were fined £237,000.

Trusteeships

Glasgow is a trustee of The Kalisher Trust, a legal charity which aims to transform the lives of bright young people through the development of their advocacy skills and supports those who aspire to become criminal barristers. Glasgow is a trustee of NewWave in the Community, a sports charity which aims to transform the lives of vulnerable young people through the provision of sport and fitness coaching.

References

External links

Chambers and Partners: Oliver Glasgow KC

Legal 500: Oliver Glasgow KC
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