Rag Chand
Year of Call: 1994
Specialist Areas: Homicide, Large Drugs Related Offences, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime
Biography
Rag Chand came to the bar as a mature student having worked in various community groups in inner-city Birmingham. He specialises in criminal defence work and has built his practice on areas of law including:
Fraud
Drugs
Murder
People Trafficking
Miscarriage of Justice
The past several years have seen Rag regularly instructed in a number of high-profile cases. These have included one of the largest pharmaceutical fraud cases in recent times, lasting some eight months; one of the largest international drugs conspiracies involving twenty-one defendants; multiple murder cases, including the alleged murder of a baby girl which resulted in the acquittal of both parents.
He was also instructed in one of the first large-scale cases of people-trafficking for sexual exploitation and played a pivotal role in one of the longest miscarriages of justice in British history in the case of R. v. Hodgson, where the conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal after the defendant had spent twenty-seven years in custody. It was Mr. Chand's tenacity which unearthed the DNA evidence which formed the basis of the appeal.
He is currently setting up a website to deal with cases of miscarriage of justice.