Ella Embleton-Brown

Junior C

30 Dec

Written By Nick Calton, Toucan Creative

Call: 2019

Ella Embleton-Brown

Bar Professional Training Course, Very Competent (2019)

Legal Practice LLM, Distinction (2019)

University of Manchester — Law LLB, First Class (1:1) (2018)

Ann Goddard Scholar, Gray’s Inn

Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) Crown Prosecution Panel Member

Grade 3 Crown Prosecutor

Ella is a criminal practitioner with a well-established practice prosecuting and defending in cases concerning serious sexual offences, handling vulnerable complainants and witnesses, and cases requiring sensitive disclosure handling. Ella is a member of the Crown Prosecution Service Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) Panel and a Grade 3 prosecutor.

Notable Cases

Rape and Serious Sexual Offences

R v Brunning and Philips (2026): Disclosure junior in Operation Henway which was the investigation and prosecution of historical sexual and physical abuse of children at Skircoat Lodge Children's Home spanning the mid-1970s to early 1990s. As disclosure junior I was responsible for considering social care, medical and mental health records in addition to a vast volume of material seized from the Defendants. Whilst complying with the duty of disclosure, I highlighted evidence within the third-party material which subsequently was relied on as part of the prosecution case. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/woman-jailed-25-years-her-role-care-home-sexual-abuse-calderdale

R v R (2026): Prosecuted a stranger sexual assault whereby the Defendant had followed the Victim home and attacked her in an alleyway in broad daylight. This case involved forensic evidence. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iranian-asylum-seeker-jailed-sexual-assault-leeds-1786661

R v M (2026): Prosecuted a youth defendant charged with sexual assault which occurred within a school setting, which involved handwriting analysis and forensic evidence.

R v H (2025): Represented a teacher charged with sexual offences against multiple complainants; secured an acquittal on one count of sexual assault and a successful half-time submission on a further count. The jury was hung on two further counts, including assault by penetration.

R v M (2025): Prosecuted a teacher charged with sexual offences against students; secured convictions for Voyeurism and Causing a Child to Watch a Sexual Act.

R v P (2025): Prosecuted a music teacher charged with sexually assaulting his student on two occasions.

R v N (2025): Prosecuted a Defendant charged with historic inter-familial rapes and sexual offences against three different victims all of whom were children at the time of offending. The resulting sentence was one of 18 years’ 9 months imprisonment.

R v S (2024): Prosecuted a former television actor and director for sexual communication with a child. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13865825/Emmerdale-director-Harry-Styles-brag-grooming-teenage-boy-avoids-jail.html

R v A (2023): Represented a client who was determined unfit to stand trial in a finding of fact hearing for alleged offences of exposure. The client received an unconditional discharge.

Violent Offences

R v K (2026): Represented a client charged with Section 18 GBH on a joint enterprise basis, for which the co-defendant had already pleaded guilty. After a three-day trial, Miss Embleton-Brown secured an acquittal for her client.

R v W (2026): Represented client charged with intentional strangulation which was determined by the trial judge to have an undertone of sexual intent.

R v R (2026): Charged with controlling and coercive behaviour alongside various assaults against his former partner. This case involved sensitive witness handling as both the Complainant and the Defendant were neurodivergent.

R v T (2025): Prosecuted a Defendant charged with Section 18 GBH, ultimately the case resolved on the day of trial with a plea to a Section 20 GBH as an alternative.

R v O (2023): Junior counsel in a multi-handed murder in which our clients defence was self-defence. The case involved legal arguments concerning the deceased’s bad character. During the trial disclosure issues arose in which the Police had failed to disclose that another knife was recovered close to the scene of the stabbing, from which we were able to obtain further agreed facts.

R v M (2022): Successfully prosecuted a Defendant charged with intentional strangulation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm against his former partner. This was one of the first prosecutions for the new offence of non-fatal strangulation.

R v B (2022): Secured an acquittal for a client charged with Child Abduction after submitting a case of no case to answer at the close of the Prosecution case. https://www.broadwayhouse.co.uk/news/ella-embleton-successful-defence-abduction

Drug Offences

R v M (2026): Successfully prosecuted a Defendant charged with multiple offences of possession with intent to supply Class A and B drugs. The case involved presenting large volumes of exhibits and phone downloads to the jury.

R v E (2025): Represented a mother charged with possession with intent to supply cannabis and perverting the course of justice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8pyry48d8o

R v K (2024): Successfully made an application to dismiss for a client charged with Possession with Intent to Supply Class A drugs, resulting in the indictment being quashed.

R v S (2024): Prosecuted a Defendant charged with several offences of being concerned in the supply of Class A and B drugs.

R v F (2023): Acted as junior defence counsel in a case involving blackmail and being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs; considered a significant volume of EncroChat material as part of the disclosure exercise, contributing to the Crown revising their position in relation to our basis of plea which saw the client sentenced on a value of 5kg of cocaine, rather than 12kg. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23940898.jailed-pair-said-claimed-ran-consett-arrest/

Protest Cases

R v C (2025): Instructed by the CPS Complex Crime Unit to prosecute a Defendant charged with public order offences arising from a protest staged outside a Factory in Yorkshire.

R v A (2025): Instructed by the CPS Complex Crime Unit to prosecute a Defendant charged with public order offences arising from a protest. I successfully prosecuted this case which involved niche aspects including the use of blood-libel and consideration of the European Convention on Human Rights. https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/protestor-guilty-of-racially-aggravated-hate-speech-5000048

R v F (2024): Instructed by the CPS Complex Crime Unit to prosecute a Defendant charged with public order offences arising from a protest. The case involved legal arguments surrounding the admissibility of expert evidence and consideration of the European Convention on Human Rights.

General Offences

R v M (2026): Successfully made an application to dismiss on 10 out of 13 offences including burglary, dangerous driving and theft. The Defendant pleaded guilty to the other three offences and awaits sentence on those.

R v J (2025): Represented a client charged with Arson with Intent to endanger life who had set fire in a shared-housing unit. The trial involved cross-examination of a fire expert to challenge the cause/location of the fire. https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-hid-fire-extinguishers-wardrobe-31878246

R v S (2023): Successfully prosecuted a burglary trial at Leeds Crown Court in which expert evidence relating to glass fragments was adduced and challenged.

R v H (2023): Ella represented a client for sentence for two offences of perverting the course of justice and secured a 12-month community order with 100 hours of unpaid work.

R v D (2022): Secured a conviction in a 3-day robbery trial whereby the issue was ID. The case involved legal arguments concerning the admissibility of evidence.

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