Anthony Harrison

Having successfully completed pupillage at Tooks Chambers in 2005, Anthony is developing a strong and varied criminal defence practice. He regularly appears in Crown court trials where he is instructed on a broad range of offences including robberies, fraud and sexual offences.
Anthony has also been led by senior members of chambers in a number of complex VHCC cases including s.18 GBH and large scale conspiracies to defraud.
Recently, Anthony appeared before the Court of Appeal where he successfully persuaded their Lordships to quash all of the Appellant's benefit fraud convictions on the basis that the trial judge had erred in law by misconstruing the Social Security Administration Act 1992. The case was reported in the Times Law Reports (R v Passmore, 18 June 2007) and is now a leading authority in the field of benefit fraud.