Louise D'Arcy QC

Called 1988 Silk 2010

Education
Brigidine Convent

Practice
Criminal Law specialist in all areas of crime including allegations of sexual abuse involving both adults and children both recent and historical, fraud against public institutions such as HM Inland Revenue, Department of Works and Pensions and HM Customs and Excise, serious violence including murder and manslaughter and serious drugs offences.

Notable cases
R v Allison: Defence Junior. Psychiatrist who had raped nine of his patients.
R v Beard: Defence. Rape and systematic sexual abuse of five members of his family over a thirty year period.
R v Betambo: Defence Junior. Man who killed his wife after she had "nagged" him for years.
R v Wilson: Defence. Young woman who conspired with at least five others to import large quantities of cocaine into this country.
R v Page: Defence Junior. Man who bludgeoned his wife to death. 10 years earlier he had killed his father in the same way.

Professional Membership
Criminal Bar Association

Languages
French