Criminal Duty Solicitor

4 days ago


East Sussex, United Kingdom Tuckers Solicitors Full time
Criminal Duty Solicitor Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced criminal duty solicitor to join our team at Tuckers Solicitors in East Sussex. As a leading criminal law firm, we operate nationwide and represent clients across a wide range of general and serious criminal offences.

Our team is highly experienced in drugs offences, violent crime, and sexual offences, and we also offer specialist expertise in fraud, proceeds of crime, and prison law. We are ranked in Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, and The Times Best Law Firms, and our cases are regularly featured in national news media.

Main Responsibilities
  • Providing representation at police stations
  • Representing clients in criminal proceedings, including court appearances, trials, and hearings
  • Liaising with clients, counsel, defendants, and other parties
  • Collating and reviewing documentation and evidence
  • Obtaining medical/accountancy evidence when required and interpreting that evidence and advising accordingly
  • Litigating cases
  • Conducting advocacy
  • Negotiating with prosecutors on behalf of clients
  • Managing a caseload efficiently
Essential Key Skills
  • Full qualification as police station representative
  • Experience of criminal law within the last five years
  • Knowledge of the Legal Aid system
  • Advocacy and litigation skills
  • Clean and valid practicing certificate at the time of applying
  • Excellent client care skills with the ability to represent vulnerable clients
Preferred Key Skills
  • Higher rights of advocacy qualification
  • Additional certificates and qualifications such as the Advocates Gateway
  • Specialist expertise in one or more areas of criminal law, particularly motoring offences and financial crime, white collar, financial, and business crime
  • Ability to mentor trainees
  • Experience with private clients and an ability to generate more private client cases


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