Julian Young - Solicitor Advocate

Email: julianyoung@jylaw.co.uk
Mobile: 07956 502 069

    

Julian Young LL.B.{Hons.}, M.B.A., M.C.M.I.,  is the Senior Partner and has been a Solicitor since May 1977.  He holds an Honours degree in Laws, a Masters’ degree in Business Administration and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management. 

He has extremely extensive experience in all aspects of criminal litigation, as a defence Solicitor at Court and in Police Stations, as well as prosecuting.  He is an authorised prosecutor for the Post Office, having been a prosecutor for over 6 years.  He also gives assistance to the Law Society in dealing with media requests on subjects impacting upon criminal litigation and the criminal justice system. 

Julian holds Higher Rights of Audience in Criminal Proceedings, and has extensive experience in Magistrates’, Crown and Coroners’ Courts, as well as being an experienced Duty Solicitor dealing with police station, Magistrates' Court and Youth Court cases.  He also appears regularly for clients in prison adjudication and Parole Board hearings. 

As Senior Partner, he is responsible for the overall running of the Firm, general administrative matters, and dealing with complaints; he is also the Firms’ Liaison Manager with the Legal Services Commission and a criminal cases supervisor. In addition, Julian is a member of the London Costs and Regional committees of the Legal Services Commission having been elected Vice-Chair of the London Regional Committee in 2007.  He was also a member of the committee which advised on the setting up if the night Courts in Central London.  He is a past President of the West London Law Society on three occasions and is a current committee  member.  In addition, he is a member of the LCCSA, CLSA, West London Law Society and the National Law Society, an occasional lecturer to the Middlesex Business School and the Metropolitan Police custody officer’s course and Crown Court training courses. 

He is able to additionally advise on employment law and act in employment cases, undertake media presentations and lecture on business administration.  Julian has appeared in the Court of Appeal [Criminal division] on a number of occasions presenting appeals. These include the appeal against conviction of Sean Hodgson in which he appeared in the Court of Appeal before the Lord Chief Justice in March 2009 and secured the quashing of the conviction of the client some 27 years after conviction. 

He also represented one of the two men arrested in the Forest Gate terrorism case when the client was not charged.  Julian has also prepared the defence case of a defendant in one of the longest cases of fraud at the Central Criminal Court – part of the Palmer Timeshare fraud.