Lucy Corrin

Assistant Programme Leader for Full-time BPTC and Lecturer


Courses taught 

Criminal Litigation and Sentencing


Conference

Module Leader for Judicial Review


Career  

Lucy practiced at Doughty Street Chambers. Her practice has encompassed the following areas amongst others; murder and serious violence, public protest, fraud, arson, driving offences causing death, sexual offences, drug importation and supply, robbery and offences against public justice. Lucy has also acted for doctors and pharmacists facing criminal charges arising from their work. In addition, Lucy has experience in crime-related public law relating to issues of parole and sentencing. 

Lucy also practiced in appellate work, in appeals against conviction and sentence, applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and applications for special leave to petition the Privy Council. Lucy continues to undertake pro bono appellate work.  


Education and Professional Qualifications

  • LLB (Hons) Law London School of Economics (First Class) 2000 
  • Benefactors Scholar – Middle Temple
  • Call 2001

Professional affiliations

  • Criminal Bar Association
  • South Eastern Circuit

Research

  • Please populate this space if you have specific areas of research activity

Publications and citations 

  • Contributing author to Taylor on Criminal Appeals, due to be published in March 2012
  • Contributing author (together with other members of Doughty Street Chambers) to a book published by Oxford University Press: Human Rights in the Investigation and Prosecution of Crime (Jonathan Cooper and Madeline Colvin eds) - OUP 2009
  • Regular columnist for A Life in Crime, published by the Solicitor's Journal and a contributor to Halsburys’ Law Exchange

Conference Presentations

  • Presented a paper at the Doughty Street Criminal Appeals Conference in Manchester in May 2011

Reported cases

  • Patrick Thomas Tibbetts v the Attorney General of the Cayman Islands [2010] UKPC 8 - Appeal to the Privy Council on the issue of juror bias in a fraud trial in Grand Cayman
  • Kirk Gordon v The Queen [2010] UKPC 18 – Appeal to the Privy Council on the issue of provocation and where the appellant's police interview had been improperly withheld from the jury. The murder conviction was quashed and a verdict of manslaughter was substituted and the case remitted to Belize for sentence