David Barrington Barnes is a solicitor specialising in Shooting and Firearms Hunting and Countryside Law.

David was educated in Suffolk, took a BA in English at Lancaster University and qualified as a solicitor in 1976.

In 1983 David founded Lloyd Barnes Solicitors and managed the legal interests of his clients nationwide for the last 25 years.

David is now concentrating on Shooting, Firearms and Countryside Law.

David's contribution to the defence of shooting people throughout England and Wales is already legendary.

In Shotgun and Firearms Certificate Appeals, he has recovered the Certificates of clients revoked for many different reasons. These range from revocations for alcohol and drug abuse and after domestic incidents to many different sorts of convictions. Whatever trouble Certificate Holders encounter with their Certificates, David is interested in representing them and trying to secure the reinstatement of their Certificates.

David is skilled in negotiations with Firearms Licensing Authority representatives and always keen to resolve differences between the relevant FLA and the Certificate holder. (Sometimes there can be a simple breakdown in communication between them).

Not infrequently the opening salvo of trouble for a Certificate Holder takes the form of a prosecution for an alleged criminal offence (sometimes firearms related, sometimes not) and if the client prefers to pay (rather than rely on the basic public funding service) then David will act. He has achieved some great results in defending various prosecutions involving allegations of assault, firearms offences, poaching, illegal trapping and many more.

David acts in Hunting law cases.

David also represents landowners and shoot managers in the regulatory law field. Typically health & safety prosecutions have to be defended and landowning clients interests safeguarded in dealings with such bodies as English Nature.

As between landowners, farmers and shoot tenants, David drafts and approves Leases and Licences. With his long experience of shoots and shooting combined with his legal training, David often has the edge on his opponents in these transactions.

There are many other areas of field sports law too numerous to mention but the chances are that David will have encountered most of them. When he is not shooting , stalking or fishing it's likely he will be working on a case involving "hunting, shooting or fishing" or some related countryside issue.

David continues to supply articles for specialist shooting publications such as the Shooting Times (See Articles page) and lectures on shooting and firearms law.


E-mail : bb@shootinglaw.co.uk
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