Jared McNally
Jared McNally
Partner, Head of Crime and professional discipline
Jared is a Partner and Head of the Criminal, Fraud and Professional Discipline Department. He has developed and maintained a heavy criminal practice which involves representing those accused of the most serious of offences including murder, firearms, conspiracy to supply drugs, fraud and serious sexual offences. He has a well-earned reputation for his detailed preparation, tactically astute advice and he offers a first class service to all his clients. In 2020, Jared was listed in the Doyle’s Guide as being a ‘leading’ lawyer practising in criminal law.
Jared almost exclusively defends in serious and complex crime. He has appeared in many high profile cases. Given the constraints on legal aid, Jared has developed a significant private practice representing individuals and professionals in various fields. Legal aid doesn’t always cover the sheer amount of work that Jared believes is necessary to do a case properly. A criminal conviction for many of his clients would destroy their career, reputation and family. As a result Jared now has a national private practice and is often instructed by professionals across the UK including London, Guernsey and Wales.
Jared approaches every case with the same high standards. Clients find him direct, knowledgeable and passionate about the work that he does. Where appropriate, he takes an aggressive and proactive approach to cases whether it be pre or post charge.
Jared was a former Partner of a niche city centre law firm specialising in white collar crime, business crime and large complex fraud.
Jared also has considerable experience of advising and representing interested parties at Coroner’s inquests arising from hospital deaths, alleged neglect and deaths in custody. He regularly represents nurses, midwives and prison officers and has a particular interest in Article 2 inquests.
Jared has vast experience in defending clients from professional backgrounds. He has a well-earned reputation for his thorough and methodical approach. He is well liked by clients and members of the legal profession. He has significant experience of representing professionals before the criminal courts, Coroners court and regulatory panels.
Jared is instructed across the UK by professionals and advises and defends doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, architects, opticians, pharmacists and teachers before their regulatory body. He has vast experience of dealing with cases of the utmost seriousness including sexual misconduct, dishonesty, financial mismanagement and criminal convictions.
Jared can assist with investigations instigated by all the regulatory bodies, including the:
- Nursing & Midwifery Council
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- General Medical Council
- General Dental Council
- Architects Regulatory Board
- General Optical Council
- Social Work England
- Social Care Wales
- Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service
- General Pharmaceutical Council
Jared is often instructed by the major trade unions across the UK to represent their members in respect of professional discipline matters.
Jared is a member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
Jared also has experience of Public Inquiries. He represented three members of G4S/Serco staff at the Brookhouse Inquiry. This Government Inquiry was set up to investigate the decisions, actions and circumstances surrounding the mistreatment of individuals who were detained at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) shown in the BBC Panorama programme “Under-Cover: Britain’s Immigration Secrets”, aired on 4 September 2017.
Jared also has experience and able to assist those required to attend an interview with specific and independent units within the Department of Transport, including the Maritime Accident Investigation Branch and Rail Accident Investigation Branch.
Office telephone. 0161 249 2704
Notable Criminal Cases
R v JS – 2022 – representing Defendant as Islweorth Crown Court accused of the importation of over 200 kg of class A drugs. This case is related to operation Venetic. In 2020, the National Crime Agency announced that it had infiltrated the secure messaging system ‘Encrochat’, said to be used exclusively by people engaging in criminal activity. Operation Venetic has so far resulted in around 750-800 arrests.
R v RO – 2022 – representing an ex Choir master accused of historic sex offences spanning a period of 30 year.
R v KA – 2022- representing 1 of 6 Defendants accused of manslaughter and conspiracy to burgle.
R v AR – 2022 – representing lead Defendant in a multi handed allegation of supplying in excess of 70kg of class A drugs.
R v MD – 2022 – representing a Head teacher, at Southwark Crown Court, accused of operating an unregistered school.
R v KL – 2022 – representing a paramedic accused of causing death by dangerous driving x2 whilst on duty driving an ambulance.
R v IA – 2021 – representing Defendant accused of being a member of an organised crime group in South Manchester involved in a conspiracy to endanger life.
R v AM – 2021 – representing student accused of serious sexual offences.
R v JH 2020 – representing Defendant accused of conspiracy to handle stolen goods to the value of £2,250,000.
R v MS – 2020 – representing Defendant accused of conspiracy to steal to the value of £500,000.
R & CA – 2020 – representing a Head teacher accused of breaching the Coronavirus regulations.
R v AB – 2020 – representing football fan accused of racially abusing a Manchester United footballer.
R v AH – 2020 – representing Defendant at Manchester Crown Court accused of being involved in the supply of over 20 Kg of class A drugs and firearms.
R v JA – 2019 – successfully defended a senior prison officer accused of Gross Negligence Manslaughter and Health & Safety offences. After a 4 week trial, the Defendant was acquitted of all charges by the jury who took less than 2 hours to reach their verdicts of Not Guilty.
R V CT – 2019 – represented an alleged prominent member of the notorious ‘A Team’, a Serious & Organised Crime Group from Salford. The case involved drugs, violence and extortion and revenge for the “execution” of Salford “Mr Big” Paul Massey. The Defendant was acquitted of conspiracy to murder.
R v MA – 2019 – acted on behalf of a care worker accused, with other nurses and senior managers, of attempting to pervert the course of justice. The prosecution relied on a ‘whistle blower’. The Crown, after cross examination of their witnesses, offered no evidence against the Defendant and she was acquitted.
R v GT – 2019 – represented the only Defendant to be acquitted of conspiracy to kidnap which involved an Organised Crime Group in Preston and Wales who hired the services of an ex SAS soldier to track down and kidnap a rival gang member.
R v DL – 2018 – successfully defended a teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a pupil http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5625827/Teacher-Deborah-Lowe-cleared-having-sex-teenage-pupil-35-years-junior.html
R v JT – 2018 – successfully defended a prison officer accused of Gross Negligence Manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court in London. The 1st case of its kind in the UK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42878661
R v AG – Acted on behalf of a senior prison officer charged along with two other prison officers with misconduct in public office following the death of a prisoner. The prosecution followed investigations conducted by HMP Service, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman and two police forces. Successfully excluded critical expert evidence and submission of no case to answer upheld – acquitted. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/three-hmp-nottingham-prison-officers-921632
Bank manager accused of fraud
Midwife accused of Gross Negligent Manslaughter arising out of the death of a baby at a hospital in Leeds.
Prisons officers accused of Misconduct in Public Office and Gross Negligence Manslaughter following the death of inmates at HMP Preston, HMP Leeds, HMP Nottingham, HMP Woodhill, HMP Preston, HMP Belmarsh, HMP Low Newton, HMP Swaleside and HMP Preston.
R v G – representing defendant charged with the unlawful killing of her father.
R v T – successfully defended a mental health nurse before Liverpool Crown Court in relation to allegations of serious sexual abuse.
R v AJ – successfully defended a nurse accused of Fraud before Sheffield Crown Court.
R & P – teacher accused of a series of violent assaults upon pupils.
R & L – successfully represented a safe guarding teacher accused of child neglect and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
R v S – G4S officer accused of misconduct in a public office. This case featured on BBC’s panorama documentary and involved allegations of misconduct, assault and neglect at Medway Secure Detention Centre.
Operation Seabrook – prison officer accused of a series of violent assaults at Medomsley Detention Centre, County Durham, principally in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Operation Elveden – instructed to represent a public official accused of selling stories to journalist. This was a Metropolitan Police Service investigation that revealed the payments made to public officials by journalists for information. It followed two parliamentary committees and the Leveson Inquiry which revealed serious questions over the techniques used by some which may have amounted to systematic and flagrant breaches of the law. The range and circumstance of this activity was of a scale not previously encountered by police or CPS.
Murder Cases
R v EF – 2019 – acted for the lead Defendant in a multi handed murder at Manchester Crown Court.
R V CT – 2019 – represented an alleged prominent member of the notorious ‘A Team’, a Serious & Organised Crime Group from Salford. The case involved drugs, violence and extortion and revenge for the “execution” of Salford “Mr Big” Paul Massey. The Defendant was acquitted of conspiracy to murder.
R v G – defended in an attempt murder involving complex psychiatric and toxicology evidence.
R v D – represented a vulnerable Defendant in a 2 handed ‘cut throat’ case involving complex issues of causation and medical evidence. Described by the police as “one of the most brutal and appalling” cases they had investigated.
R v J – Preston Crown Court; defended in murder allegation where defendant was extradited from Spain for his alleged role in murder of a drug dealer whose body has never been recovered. Extensive issues of PII raised.
R v Z – represented 17 year old youth accused of a gangland murder outside a Manchester Pub.
Conspiracy Cases
R v JH – 2020 – representing Defendant accused of conspiracy to handle stolen goods to the value of £2,250,000.
R v GA – 2020 – conspiracy to supply class A drugs before Exeter Crown Court.
R v SH – 2020- conspiracy to supply class A drugs involving 19 Defendant’s in a multi-million pound cross-Pennine operation.
R v MS – 2020 – representing Defendant accused of conspiracy to steal to the value of £500,000
R v IA – 2020 – representing Defendant accused of being a member of an organised crime group in South Manchester involved in a conspiracy to endanger life.
R v AH -2020 – representing Defendant at Manchester Crown Court accused of being involved in the supply of over 20 Kg of class A drugs and firearms.
R v JS -2020 – representing Defendant as Islweorth Crown Court accused of the importation of over 200 kg of class A drugs. This case is related to operation Venetic. In 2020, the National Crime Agency announced that it had infiltrated the secure messaging system ‘Encrochat’, said to be used exclusively by people engaging in criminal activity. Operation Venetic has so far resulted in around 750-800 arrests.
R v GT – 2019 – represented the only Defendant to be acquitted of conspiracy to kidnap which involved an Organised Crime Group in Preston and Wales who hired the services of an ex SAS soldier to track down and kidnap a rival gang member.
R v M – Operation Optica, case involved two rival criminal gangs and a number of ‘shootings’ in the Salford area.
R v P – Operation Dauntless, advanced fee inheritance fraud with a value in excess of £850,000.
R v R – Operation Supola, Organised Crime Group from Liverpool involved in the supply of class A drugs.
R v H – defended in Manchester gang land drugs and firearms conspiracy.
R v S – Operation Anneal; defended in multi handed conspiracy to supply cocaine involving a serious & organised crime group from Manchester.
R v P – Teeside Crown Court; 14 Defendant trial alleging conspiracy to supply Class A drugs to the North East.
R v M – Manchester Crown Court; multi handed conspiracy to commit robbery.
R v S –Manchester Crown Court; represented 1 of 24 Defendants in relation to an allegation of conspiracy to steal.
R v C – Manchester Crown Court; conspiracy to commit robbery.
R v A – Operation Yonside; represented 1 of 31 Defendants before Caernarvon Crown Court. Case involved an organised crime group involved in the supply of large quantities of cocaine & cannabis over an 8 year period.
R v S – conspiracy to commit fraud; case prosecuted by Trading standards involving ‘clocking’ of motor vehicles.
R v H – Liverpool Crown Court; Defendant charged in large scale cocaine supply conspiracy (22 tonnes of class A & B drugs) involving covert recordings and international agencies. Described by the Judge as the “largest multi commodity conspiracy in the UK to date”.
R v H – Plymouth Crown Court; multi million pound conspiracy to supply class A drugs to the South.
R v J – Operation Kenya, represented Defendant who plotted to carry out a series of robberies across the North West.
R v L – Represented one of several Defendants’ charged in connection with an international conspiracy to import substantial quantities of cocaine using private aircraft owned by the conspirators.
Sexual Offences Cases
R v DL – successfully defended teacher accused of sexual activity with a child
R v JM – successfully defended elderly Defendant accused of historic sexual offences upon a family member.
R v R – defended high net worth individual accused of serious sexual offences.
R v S – successfully defended teacher accused of voyeurism.
R v L – historic sexual offences.
R v T – successful defence of 21 allegations of historic sexual offences.
R v G – Operation Routh – Represented Defendant linked to the Rochdale child sex grooming investigation.
R v C – successfully defended teacher accused of rape.
Notable Inquests
JC & Mckenzie – represented a probation officer accused of multiple failings in relation to the supervision of an offender who went onto to commit murder.
AC – representing the father in respect of an inquest touching upon the death of his 1 year old daughter who was murdered by the partner of the child’s mother.
The Brookhouse Inquiry. We represented 3 members of staff. This Government Inquiry was set up to investigate the decisions, actions and circumstances surrounding the mistreatment of individuals who were detained at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) shown in the BBC Panorama programme “Under-Cover: Britain’s Immigration Secrets”, aired on 4 September 2017
JW & Local Authority, NHS Trust & others – Represented the family throughout the Inquest process and subsequent Civil claims. Investigated systematic failures in care received from local authority care home, NHS Trust and contractors regarding the risk of falls and equipment used for an admitted patient with limited mobility. The Coroner found the cause of death was an accident contributed to by neglect received at the care home and ordered a national investigation into the use of bed levers.
JW & Cheddle Lodge, Stockport Council & Others – Represented the family regarding failings in the care home management of a vulnerable patient with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. The Coroner concluded with a narrative conclusion, that JW was unobserved and not actively monitored by the care home.
R & C – currently representing a probation Officer who was the supervisor of an offender who, whilst released in the community, went onto commit murder.
R & Moore – represented 2 Senior Prison Officers, one of which had been prosecuted and then acquitted of misconduct in a public office. Successful submissions prevented the jury from considering the evidence in relation to the 2 prison officers.
R & Harvey – represented a Senior prison officer employed at HMP Woodhill, subsequent to him being found not guilty of Gross Negligence Manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court
R & Smith – represented an Officer Support Grade employed at HMP Belmarsh in relation to the death of a prisoner.
R & Heatman – represented 2 prison officers at a 4 week Article 2 jury inquest at Liverpool Coroner’s Court.
R & Armstrong – represented 3 midwives before Warrington Coroners Court in relation to the sad death of a baby shortly after birth.
R & Streetley – represented a Care Worker before Doncaster Coroners Court touching the death of an elderly lady who choked to death in a Care Home.
R & Fields – represented the family of a RAF veteran who was murdered in December 2014. This case raised issues surrounding Article 2 of the Human Rights Act and serious concerns as to the events leading to his very sad death.
R & Barlow – represent Macmillan nurse in relation to allegations of a criminal nature and linked proceedings before Bolton Coroners Court.
R & Cousins – represented mental health nurse before Bradford Coroners Court.
R & Foster – represented nurse in relation to a death in custody at HMP Durham.
R & Smith – represented an Officer Support Grade employed at HMP Elmley before Maidstone Coroners Court.
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