Richard Egan (solicitor)

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Richard Egan
Born
Richard Egan
NationalityBritish
OccupationDefence lawyer
Years active1990–present
Known forAdvocacy in high-profile criminal cases
AwardsLegal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award
WebsiteTuckersSolicitors.com

Richard Egan is an English solicitor known for his work and advocacy in high-profile criminal defence cases.[1] He is also known as a charity worker and a recipient of Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year award he was awarded in recognition for his work defending Lotfi Raissi[2] who was wrongly accused[3] of training September 11 hijackers.[4] In 2014 Egan came to notice after successful defence of Tania Clarence[5] who was charged with murder of her two children after her unsuccessful legal battle with social workers.[6] After a series of defence motions, murder charge was reduced to that of a manslaughter by diminished responsibility[7] and Clarence was given a hospital order.[8]

Career[edit]

Egan qualified as a solicitor in 1990[9] and joined Tuckers Solicitors, law firm based in London, where he became a partner in 2001.[10] His work is focused mainly on criminal defense.[10]

Experience[edit]

Egan is a member of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association and Association of Military Court Advocates and Justice.[10] He has gathered local attention in London for his aggressive defense style and was one of those who contended that solicitor advocates should be entitled to wear the same wig and gown in court as barristers.[citation needed]

Notable cases[edit]

Egan's work has included acting for:

  • Lotfi Raissi, Algerian pilot who allegedly instructed four of the hijackers who crashed the plane into the Pentagon on September 11. The prosecution case was that Raissi qualified in the United States as a pilot in 1997, attending the same Arizona flight school as four of the hijackers involved in the attacks September 11.[11] Raissi was acquitted after trial.[12]
  • Navinder Singh Sarao, accused of triggering a multibillion-dollar Wall Street crash,[13] who was represented by Egan prior to and during extradition proceedings.[14]
  • Surinder Pal Singh Sappal, who was the only defendant acquitted in a trial relating to insider dealing.[15] Egan and the Special Casework team acted for Sappal on a private basis in one of the rare cases brought by the FCA for insider dealing.[16] The prosecution alleged that the 3 defendants were involved in a plan to make illegal profits from share dealing on secret information obtained by an insider on the board at Logica, a multinational IT and management consultant agency, shortly before the business was the subject of a takeover by CGI Group Holdings Ltd, netting the defendants massive profits.[17] Sappal was acquitted by the jury, with his co-Defendants sentenced.[18]
  • Giorgina Ray,[19] Jimmy Savile's love child.[20]
  • Egan also represented Tania Clarence,[21] a wife of an investment banker, in her defence to a charge of murder in connection with the deaths of her three disabled children.[22] Clarence family friends said the mother had felt under constant pressure by local authority and had been “very derogatory about Kingston social services”.[23][24] Speaking after the trial, Clarence said "lessons need to be learned" from his wife's story of "dedication and love" which turned to "despair and utter hopelessness".[25] After the trial, in a statement issued on Clarence' behalf, Egan blamed medical professionals and social services for contributing to Tania Clarence's depression.[26]
  • In another widely publicised case Egan represented Pervez Rafiq, British charity worker who was the only defendant acquitted in a trial relating to terrorism offences.[27] Egan led Tuckers Solicitors Terrorist and Special Casework team who have secured the acquittal of Rafiq who was accused of terrorist offences whilst Syed Hoque and Mashoud Miah were both convicted of funding terrorism. Hoque was found guilty of using aid convoys to smuggle money to his nephew fighting with an al-Qaida linked group[28]
  • In 2019 Egan represented Jack Shepherd who was convicted of a speedboat murder.[29]

Television and Media appearances[edit]

Egan has appeared on multiple national news television programs to provide legal commentary, including "The Briefs",[30] series which were aired on ITV in July 2013.[31] The series gathered an audience of about 2.4 million viewers during the first show.[32]

On-air commentary[edit]

In 2014 Egan has appeared as a guest on 107.8 Radio Jackie commenting on Tania Clarence case.[33]

Awards[edit]

In 2003 Egan was received Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award[4] in recognition for successful defence of Lotfi Raissi who was wrongly accused of being the architect of the September 11th atrocities.[34] In 2015 Egan was named Partner of the Year at The Lawyer awards[35]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Richard Egan: Tuckers Solicitors partner". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  2. ^ "MARSHALL: In the confusion after September 11th, the FBI clung to one certainty. Of the hundreds rounded up for questioning, their biggest catch was Lotfi Raissi, arrested and held in London, awaiting extradition to America". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Richard Egan: the family was contemplating taking further action, possibly against the British police as well as the US authorities". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "AWARDS: honour for lawyer who advised man wrongly accused of 11 September involvement". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Tania Clarence: Family's middle class status blamed for failure to care for mother who smothered three children". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Mother who killed her three disabled kids overwhelmed by care, court rules". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Tania Clarence: Mother who killed her three disabled children given hospital order". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  8. ^ "A woman who killed three of her children by smothering them has been detained under a hospital order". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  9. ^ "The Law Society: Richard William Egan". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Tuckers Solcitors: Richard Egan". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Logica pair plead guilty to insider dealing". Telegraph. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  12. ^ "'Hound of Hounslow' trader Navinder Singh Sarao hires legal experts ahead of US extradition fight". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  13. ^ "Lotfi Raissi case: How false link to al-Qaida kept innocent Algerian in jail". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  14. ^ "The flash crash trader Navinder Singh Sarao returns to London cell ahead of extradition fight". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  15. ^ "Logica pair plead guilty to insider dealing". Telegraph. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  16. ^ "Two plead guilty to insider dealing in Logica case". CityAM. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  17. ^ "Ex Logica manager in UK court on insider trading charges". Reuters. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  18. ^ "Ex-Logica employees sentenced over insider dealing". CCHdaily. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  19. ^ "In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile". CCHdaily. 20 April 2017. ISBN 9781782067450. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  20. ^ "Jimmy Savile's Hednesford 'love child' Georgina Ray keeps tight-lipped about whether he remembered her in his will". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  21. ^ "Heartbroken banker stands by wife who suffocated their three severely disabled children after being 'tipped over the edge by social workers and doctors'". ITV News. 29 October 2016.
  22. ^ "Tania Clarence sentenced for children's manslaughter". BBC. 29 October 2016.
  23. ^ "Heartbroken banker stands by wife who suffocated their three severely disabled children after being 'tipped over the edge by social workers and doctors'". TheGuardian.co.uk News. 29 October 2016.
  24. ^ "Heartbroken banker stands by wife who suffocated their three severely disabled children after being 'tipped over the edge by social workers and doctors'". Independent.co.uk News. 29 October 2016.
  25. ^ "Tania Clarence: Mother who killed her three disabled children given hospital order". standard.co.uk News. 29 October 2016.
  26. ^ "Tania Clarence: Husband blames pressure over children's treatment". 29 October 2016.
  27. ^ "Syria aid convoys: Two guilty over terror funding". BBC. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  28. ^ "Two men convicted of involvement in funding Syrian extremists". 29 October 2016.
  29. ^ "Speedboat killer: Jack Shepherd's lawyer receives Nazi death threats". 29 April 2019.
  30. ^ "Tuckers Solicitors: The Briefs". ITV News. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  31. ^ "ITV Press Centre: The Briefs". ITV News. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  32. ^ "The Briefs aired on ITV1". ITV News. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  33. ^ "Lawyer Richard Egan gives a statement on Tania Clarence case". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  34. ^ "America's 11 September suspect freed by British court". 20 August 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  35. ^ "The Lawyer Awards". TheLawyer. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2017.

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