Letitia Egan

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“Excellent criminal set with a justifiable reputation as a market leader.”
Legal 500, 2022

Personal profile

Letitia appears as both a junior alone and 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 2 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 S & Ors (2023) – led junior in a multi-handed firearms conspiracy
R v C & Ors (2023) – represented D1 in a Flying Squad case concerning commercial burglaries
R v U & Ors (2023) – led junior in multi-handed drugs conspiracy
R v I (2022) – client cleared of violent disorder
R v DS (2022) – Client was acquitted of domestic ABH despite being tried in absence.
R v VI (2022) – VI was unanimously acquitted of Violent Disorder.
R v JB (2021) – JB was charged with PWITS Class B (street-dealing). Following written representations, the Crown accepted a social supply basis and JB was sentenced to a Community Order.
R v MH (2021) – Letitia argued that activating MH’s 24-week SSO would be unjust despite him breaching it after recent imposition by similar re-offending. The breach was marked by way of fine only.
R v SL (2021) – SL faced charges of public order offences. On the day of trial, Letitia was successful in excluding a confession attributed to SL by a police officer. SL went on to be acquitted of both charges despite the evidence of three witnesses.

Regulatory & Professional Disciplinary

Featured Cases

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.