JUNIOR COUNSEL
  
Lorenzo Alonzi




Year of Call: 1990

Lorenzo Alonzi has a wealth of experience in criminal practice at the bar in both first instance and appeal cases. He has also prosecuted cases in the High Court as an ad hoc Advocate Depute.

He has appeared in a large number of high profile cases involving ECHR and devolution issues, and has also been instructed as acting senior counsel in complex High Court drugs and money-laundering cases involving multiple accused. Lorenzo has considerable experience in handling cases of serious sexual offences including cases involving young children and the mentally impaired, and has acquired a particular expertise in the handling of such cases and in the art of cross-examination of child and vulnerable adult witnesses.
Areas of Practice
Appeals
Children’s Referrals
Criminal Law
Fatal Accident Inquiries
Fraud
Human Rights and Devolution Issues
Money Laundering
Offences under drugs legislation
Offences under firearms legislation
Offences under road traffic legislation
Proceeds of Crime
Sexual Offences
 		Selected cases
Brown v Stott 2000 JC 328
Devolution issue on Section 172 of RTA 1988 and the right against self-incrimination argued successfully in the Appeal Court.
HMA v David Ford
Multiple accused; drugs offences; acting as senior counsel
HMA v James Lowrie
Multiple accused; money laundering and drugs offences; acting as senior counsel
HMA v Little 1999 SCCR 625
The first devolution issue to be argued in the High Court when the relevant sections of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Scotland Act 1998 came into force.
Stott and The Advocate General for Scotland v Brown 2001 PC 43
Appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

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Email:
lorenzo.alonzi@blackchambers.co.uk