Practice Profile
Llewellyn Sellick for the last fifteen years has specialised in crime, crime related matters such as confiscation, and licensing. He defends and prosecutes across the whole range of criminal offences: murder, and lesser offences of violence, sexual offences, theft, fraud and dishonesty, money laundering, criminal damage and arson, public disorder, drugs. He is regularly instructed in cases of serious sexual offences including those involving child abuse and computer pornography. He speaks French and German.
Cases of Note include:
R v HARTHILL & KINSMAN 1980 Court of Appeal. Custodial sentences quashed when original Judge had ordered Probation Reports [P.S.Rs.] thereby giving rise to expectation of non custodial sentence if reports positive.
HOWARD v HALLETT 1984 Divisional Court. Early breathalyser case established that police cannot rely on a third specimen of breath.
R v PLYMOUTH JUSTICES ex parte HART. 1985 Divisional Court. Procedure to be followed when appealing against conviction from the Magistrates Court to the Crown Court following an equivocal plea of guilty.
R v PODSCHIES et al, 1997 Truro Crown Court. Represented to acquittal the mate of a beam trawler which netted several tons of cannabis resin.
R v TREWIN 2008 Court of Appeal. Admissibillity of bad character evidence of non complainant and directions to be given to the jury.
R v CURTIS 2008 Plymouth Crown Court. Prosecuted to conviction local taxi driver for indecent and sexual assaults, rape and voyeurism over four year period.
Qualifications and appointments
- LLB (Hons) Warwick University - 1972
- Called to the Bar: 1973
- Representative for Devon and Cornwall on Western Circuit Wine Committee: 1986 to 1990
- Appointed as Recorder: 1994
Contact
Please telephone 01752 221551 or email our clerking team
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