5 Paper Buildings is widely recognised as a ‘strong set with a good reputation’ for handling a wide variety of criminal cases, ‘including the more unusual criminal-medical cases’, for example those involving allegations of toxic poisoning or baby shaking.
Deanna Heer KC recently prosecuted two teenagers convicted of the murder of Brianna Ghey, a teenager lured to a park and stabbed to death by the pair in February 2023 - the two defendants (one of whom, owing to mutism, typed his evidence in court) received life sentences with minimum terms of 20 years and 22 years respectively, and the reporting restrictions anonymising the defendants were lifted. In June 2024,
Miranda Moore KC led
Richard Padley in a murder trial, with the defendant having previously been convicted of wounding with intent after running over the victim, who died of his injuries four years later - the case turned on complex medical evidence concerning cause of death.