Steve Hosking

Year of call 1988

Inner Temple

Circuit London and South Eastern

Qualifications BA (Hons) in Law (Nottm) 1987

Pegasus Scholar to US. (Inner Temple) 1990

Steve practices in all areas of Criminal Law both prosecution and defence from driving matters in the Magistrates Court to appeals before the Court of Appeal. 

Although the majority of his practice is in London he has and continues to appear in cases in various parts of the country. He is currently being led in a high profile Murder case and is the leading junior counsel in a large scale fraud involving 15 defendants. 

Steve has defended in Murder, serious sexual offences, large scale public order and drug importation trials. He has prosecuted in a wide variety of cases up to a level just below QC including both armed robbery and rape cases. 

Steve’s notable cases include being led in the first ever people trafficking trial in the U.K (this involved a Triad gang). Acting alone in the largest ever riot case involving immigration detainees (at Campsfield Detention Centre in Oxford). Steve replaced a QC at short notice in a Rape case (the defendant was acquitted) 

Steve was led last year in the largest police investigation in Bristol and the South West for the last 15 years (according to the evidence of the Officer in the case) which involved 9 defendants charged with conspiracy to Murder pursuant to a contract killing. 

Acting alone for one of two defendants who set up Britain’s biggest fake passport factory (again quoting the officer in the case, although admittedly this time in The Daily Mail so he may have got carried away)

Steve is happy to give lectures as part of the 7 Bell Yard lecture programme which can be organised through the clerk’s room.