Mark Norman KC
- Criminal Law - General
Mark has been practising as a barrister for over 30 years both in England and Australia. He was called to the English Bar in April 1989.
Having successfully completed pupilages in both civil and criminal law he was offered a tenancy at No 1 Paper Buildings, a long established and successful set of chambers specializing in criminal law on both the South-Eastern and Western Circuits of England.
Mark continued to practice in civil and criminal law for approximately the first six years of his career.
His civil practice included Contract, Personal Injury, and Family Law.
He later specialized in serious crime and was regularly briefed by the Crown Prosecution Service, as well as defence solicitors throughout East Anglia and beyond.
He frequently appeared in cases of serious sexual and violent assault, including murder, rape, and kidnapping and had particular experience in cases involving the sexual abuse of children having obtained ‘preferred counsel’ status in the Crown Prosecution list.
He worked for Casework Directorate (the headquarters of the Crown Prosecution Service) who brief Counsel in serious and sensitive prosecutions e.g. R-v-PC Jasmine Cumberland, R-v-PC Stephen Norman (allegation of causing death by dangerous driving during a Police chase)
His areas of practice for both the prosecution and defence in the UK included: murder, conspiracy, robbery, fraud, and blackmail, drug related offences and (causing death by) dangerous driving.
In 2005 Mark emigrated with his family to Australia, where he worked for the Department of Public Prosecutions until 2021 as a Senior Trial Prosecutor and Manager before returning to the Private Bar in 2022.
Mark was appointed Senior Counsel in 2013 and adopted the title of Queen’s Counsel in 2021, now King’s Counsel, following the accession to the throne of King Charles III.
Year Admitted to Practice:
1989 (UK) 2006 (SA & NSW)
Date signed Bar Roll:
2006
Date Appointed Silk:
2013
Qualifications:
BA Hons University of London Goldsmith College
Diploma in Law University of Westminster
Bar Examination (Bar vocational course)
Professional Appointments & Memberships:
Barrister at Frank Moran Chambers
SA Bar Association
Law Society of South Australia
Admitted as a member of the Inner Temple
Member of the South-Eastern Circuit
Member of the Norfolk and Cambridge Bar Mess
Member of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise Approved Prosecuting List
Member of Approved List of Pupil Masters
Freeman of the City of London
Principal Litigation:
Notable cases (AUS)
R v Airey (murder)
R v Bonython Wright (sexual offences)
R v Brougham (murder)
R v Finnegan (child pornography)
R v Pearce (attempted murder)
R v Cooley (murder)
R v Dawson Ryan (sexual offences)
R v Dent (murder)
R v Dodd (murder)
R v Dickson (sexual offences)
R v Harvey (sexual offences)
R v Heyward and Minter (murder)
R v Easling (sexual offences)
R v Fenton (manslaughter)
R v Ford (murder)
R v Francis (sexual offences)
R v Humphreys (sexual offences)
R v Klaasen & Spinotti (murder)
R v Knowles (reckless murder through use of motor vehicle)
R v Lorke (murder)
R v Melbourne & others (murder)
R v Martin (abuse of public office)
R v McCarthy (murder)
R v McLean (causing death by dangerous driving)
R v MBJ (sexual offences)
R v MDV (sexual offences)
R v Nedza (manslaughter)
R v O’Connor (murder)
R v Suppiah (murder)
R v Von Stanke and ors (murder)
R v Watherston (manslaughter)
R v Wallace (sexual offences)
Notable Cases (UK)
R v O’Brien (the Alex Scott murder)
R-v-Burt (failing to provide a Christian burial)
R-v-Moule (Munchausen’s syndrome-defence)
R-v-Joseph Brown (Autistic teenage schoolboy who stabbed school friend -defence)
R-v-Gerald Manthorpe (attempted rape of paranoid schizophrenic by educationally subnormal Defendant-prosecution)
R-v-Steven Harvey (murder of father by electively mute and mentally handicapped 40 year old – defence)
R v Middleditch (Court of Criminal Appeal, 24 October 2001). The Court declaring that it was wrong in principle to pass consecutive terms under the provisions of Section 85, Power of the Criminal Court Sentencing Act 2000 – extension of custodial sentences for licence purposes in cases of serious violent or sexual assault-appellant).
R-v-Safi and Others (Stanstead Airport hijacking-defence)
R-v-Huntley & Carr (The Soham Murders-defence)
Court of Criminal Appeal
R v Heyward and Minter
R v Dawson Ryan
R v Glastonbury
R v Maiolom (numbers 2 and 3)
R v SAN
R v Usher
R v Pelly
R v MDV
R v MBJ
R v Catanzariti
R v Garner and Webb