Gerald Hendron

Gerald Hendron

  • Year of Call: 1992

  • Lincoln’s Inn

Practice

Recommended by the national legal directories as a "key name" in the field, Gerald Hendron is an experienced specialist Criminal Law advocate and a regular feature in both the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal.

Criminal Law 

Gerald Hendron specialises in prosecuting and defending the most serious criminal offences including homicide, sexual offences, drugs and dishonesty in the capacity as both Leading Junior or Junior alone. He also has significant experience in complex Proceeds of Crime Act applications for the confiscation of criminal assets. He readily undertakes factually or legally complex cases involving multiple defendants and is noted for his client care skills, especially in exceptionally sensitive cases.

Having been in practice for two decades Gerald Hendron has considerable expertise in cross-examination, particularly where paediatric/gynaecological expert evidence indicative of sexual abuse in both adults and children is crucial to a case. Gerald is also known for his prowess in handing computer-based criminal matters, having been involved in hard drive analysis and forensic retrieval in indecent images/deleted communications (such as MSN, Facebook and Yahoo live chat). Gerald's additional strengths include his incisive analytical skills when exploring DNA evidence and the statistical pitfalls that occur in criminal cases, such as the "prosecutor’s fallacy".

He is also used to dealing with Cell Site positioning evidence and has a good knowledge of its strengths and limitations. Technology features prominently in Gerald's practice, including examining high-volume telephone billing patterns between multiple defendants. This technical expertise extends to "Drug Impregnation" cases involving qualitative analysis (through MassSpec, for example), forensic analysis of accountancy and bank transactions between bank accounts in large scale fraud cases. To this end, Gerald is firmly grounded with the latest technology. He is also known for dealing with firearms offences and the associated ballistics evidence.

Regulatory Law & Inquests

In keeping with Broadway House Chambers' pedigree in regulatory law Gerald has been instructed in a number of cases for the defence, including Health and Safety Executive prosecutions of private companies and individuals in the work setting such as in the construction industry. Gerald has acted for victims' families in fatalities in the medical setting where there was possible negligence in the hospital setting, those potentially responsible for breach of CORGI-registered activities and corporations in fatalities at work allied to Health and Safety prosecutions.

 

What The Directories Say

 

"Regularly handles serious criminal cases" - Legal 500, 2010

 

Professional Memberships

 

Criminal Bar Association

North Eastern Circuit

 

Notable Cases 

 

Court of Appeal

Attorney-General's References (Nos. 38, 39 and 40 of 2007), R v Campbell Crummack and Stell [2007] All ER 34

One punch Manslaughter/Robbery - Leading authority in respect of Robbery within the Home and whether the Definitive Guideline on Robbery has any application

Crown Court

R v Keith Jackson -  Bradford Crown Court, May 2011

Prosecution counsel in trial involving historical sexual abuse of four separate complainants spanning from 1985 to 2009.

R v Gary Swindell - Carlisle Crown Court, March 2011

Handling the stolen goods from a burglary of a stately home and country house, which was part of a national investigation into targeted burglaries of stately homes by suspects.

R v David Woolham and Peter Woolham - Bradford Crown Court, December 2010

Prosecution counsel successfully prosecuted at trial two brothers aged in 60s of repeated raping two victims 40 years earlier, successfully defending abuse of process arguments as to delay.

R v Jack Spencer - Bradford Crown Court, December 2010

2 complainant historical attempted rape, indecent assault trial leaving one complainant psychologically and the other physically damaged for life.

R v Andrew Harding, Bradford Crown Court, October 2010

Deception trial, attracting national media coverage for 27-year-old deceiving 72-year-old woman (both with learning difficulties) into taking her income on the promise that he would marry her.

R v Ming Ming Zheng - Bradford Crown Court, August-November 2010

Leading Junior defendant the alleged leading facilitator in the conspiracy to kidnap the son of a Chinese Shipping Magnate and blackmail his parents in the sum of $2mUS. Prosecuted by a silk and junior. Case involved complex cellsite analysis, voice analysis on ransom demands, telephone billing and observation evidence.

R v Singh Rodh – July 2010

Defence for conspiracy to Defraud national bank, by ‘bank take over’ scheme, the total conspiracy being £500,000.

R v D G - Leeds Crown Court, May 2010

19-year-old charged with Section 18 grievous bodily harm, ‘baby shaking syndrome’ case involving permanent injuries to 2 week old baby. Consideration of complex medical issues involving ‘triad of symptoms’ analysis and investigation of complex radiological, ophthalmic, paediatric and neurosurgical evidence.

R v Terrence McGranaghan – Leeds Crown Court, May 2010

Attempted Murder – ‘life’ prisoner in Wakefield Cat A prison 8 years beyond his tariff, together with another alleged to have attempted to murder fellow prisoner in cell by strangulation.

R v Nasir Khan and 6 others – Leeds Crown Court, October 2008-March 2010

Leading Junior prosecuting conspiracy to defraud £1.1m from HBOS with insider within bank and six others.

R v Norah Pitchforth and another – Leeds Crown Court, March 2010

Breach of international embargo on importation and exportation of Endangered Species (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or CITES) as international traders in Appendix 1 most rare species, initially alleged to be in excess of £30,000 from three continents.

R v Ashley Jones - Burnley Crown Court, March 2010

Conspiracy to Burgle involving burglaries to obtain keys of high value cars and separate cloning facility to change their identity.  Case rested largely on cell site analysis of conspirators movements.

Rv Babir Aziz - Leeds Crown Court

Leading junior six handed Attempted Murder trial involving attempted gang land shooting between two rival gangs.  Involved Cell site evidence acquitted.

R v Allan Morrison and 2 others – Bradford Crown Court - November 2009

3 week trial involving defending defendant  ‘historic’ repeated gang rape of 10 year old girl in presence of sister and mother by paedophile ring.  Involving complex issues of cross examination of paediatrician, computer evidence, bad character evidence including the defendant’s previous conviction for attempted murder.