Letitia Egan

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“Red Lion Chambers offers a great depth of talented, approachable counsel.”
Legal 500, 2022

Personal profile

Letitia defends and prosecutes as both a junior alone and a led junior across the spectrum of criminal offences. She has recently acted in cases of Serious Violence, Drug Offences, Human Trafficking and other Serious & Organised Crime.

Letitia prosecutes at CPS Grade 3 and has been instructed by the SFO as disclosure review counsel. She is therefore well versed in material-heavy cases and complex disclosure exercises.

Letitia also accepts instructions in Regulatory & Professional Disciplinary proceedings, including defending for the Association of Optometrists.

Crime

Letitia has experience in all areas of criminal law.

R v MA (2024) – Led junior defending in a case of attempted murder, possession of firearms and PWITS Class A
R v HB (2024) – Successful defence in a case of Dangerous Driving reliant on witness testimony from serving police officers
R v U & Ors (2024) –Prosecution junior in multi-handed Class A drugs conspiracy
R v AE (2024) – AE was unanimously acquitted of robbery
R v S & Ors (2023) – Prosecution junior in a multi-handed firearms conspiracy in which all defendants were convicted
R v C & Ors (2023) – Letitia represented D1 in a Flying Squad case concerning conspiracy to burgle ATMs
R v AA & Ors (2023) – Led junior defending a large-scale drugs conspiracy and successfully contested POCA proceedings
R v DS (2022) – DS was acquitted of domestic ABH despite being tried in absence.
R v VI (2022) – Letitia’s client was unanimously acquitted of Violent Disorder.

Regulatory & Professional Disciplinary

Featured Cases

GOC v TH (2024) – Letitia successfully appealed the Regulator’s refusal to admit her client to the register of student optometrists due to a criminal caution.
GOP v BS (2023) – No factual findings made against client accused of failing to detect glaucoma. No finding of impairment on admitted charges of poor record-keeping.