Year of Call
2018Areas of practice
Biography
Timothy undertook pupillage with the Crown Prosecution Service in 2022, and since then he has prosecuted in both the Magistrates and Crown Court. He moved to the independent Bar in 2025 and has quickly established himself as a highly competent prosecutor as well as building a defence practice.
Timothy has prosecuted a variety of trials in the Magistrates Court with specialism in domestic abuse matters including evidence led prosecutions, Protest Trials and Youth Court matters. His experience in the Youth Court laid particular focus to trials of indictable only offences, sentencing of grave crimes including the consideration of dangerousness, and case progression for modern slavery matters.
As a Crown advocate, Timothy prosecuted an array of Crown Court hearings including but not limited to appeals against sentence, Committals for sentence and applications to rescind the grant of bail.
Timothy also has experience in other areas of law. Prior to pupillage, Timothy spent three years as a paralegal on the Infected Blood Inquiry, undertaking investigative responsibilities into the provision of contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs in the 1980s. He travelled across the United Kingdom taking witness statements from those infected and affected and reviewing documents in accordance with terms of reference.
Timothy acted as a County Court advocate, representing clients in Infant Approval Hearings and Applications to Come Off Record across the South-eastern circuit.
During his BPTM LLM, he worked in a pro bono Housing Law clinic, advising clients and advocating on their behalf in tribunal hearings concerning service charge and right to buy disputes. Timothy is open to receiving instructions in additional areas of practice.
Prosecution
Timothy's practice is prosecution focused, and he has a very wide range of experience. He is a grade 2 prosecutor with the CPS, and appears in courts across London and the south east, as well as Norwich Crown Court.
Timothy has prosecuted a variety of crown court trials including domestic abuse matters, drug supply, child cruelty, sexual assault, harassment offences.
In R v B&P he prosecuted a child cruelty matter. The co-defendant advanced a basis of plea suggesting coercion and threat of violence/sexual offences from the other co-defendant as rationale for engaging in cruelty. Timothy’s written submissions outlined the reasons for the prosecution rejecting of the basis of plea, namely, the strength of the prosecution case and the absence of any evidence to support coercion within the telecommunications between the co-defendants. The court accepted the prosecutions submissions and sentenced on the basis of higher culpability.
Defence
Timothy regularly defends in a variety of matters and in particular domestic abuse matters, including harassment offences, and offences against the person such as intentional strangulation and damaging property.
He has also accepted instructions and advised on bases of plea/newton hearings in drug supply matters.
In the recent case of R v D, Timothy defended a four-count indictment of domestic abuse which involved cross examining six lay witnesses and achieving mixed verdicts.
Instruct
To instruct Timothy, please contact Alex Coomber.