Nicholas Lumley QC is a specialist criminal and regulatory law advocate. His expertise covers cases involving homicide, serious fraud, drug trafficking, human trafficking and exploitation, tax evasion and money laundering, professional misconduct and judicial review. Rape and serious sexual offences. He is often instructed on a
private basis. Medico-legal cases and ‘Baby-shaking’ cases are also his forte.
Those whom he leads, is instructed by and represents commend his meticulous preparation, his ‘eye for detail’ and ‘reading of the case, client and witness, not just the case papers.’ He is regarded as a ‘hands-on silk that goes the extra mile researching the foreign, unusual and bizarre to get to the understanding of his client’s case’. He
‘instils immediate confidence’ and is a ‘remarkable leader’. He has an incredibly persuasive advocacy style which readily ‘engages the jury, turning the complex into common sense and the novel into normal.’ He is described as an ‘elegant and charming performer’ who unfalteringly remains ‘calm, composed and reassuring’ in what often
present as the most trying of circumstances.
Nick regularly accepts instructions on a private fee basis. Recent cases have involved the successful private defence of professional rugby player (England and Newcastle Falcons) charged with rape having met via Tinder; the defence of a business man charged with historic sexual abuse; the defence of a publican charged with multiple rapes of partners; the defence of a businessman facing trial at The Central Criminal Court on charges of VAT fraud; the defence of a company director charged with assault.