Address / Contact
India Buildings Chambers
8th Floor, India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool, L2 0XG
Telephone: 0151 243 6000
Fax: 0151 243 6040
DX 14227 LIVERPOOL
Chambers Team
Michael Emanuel Wolff
Born: 08.10.40
Called: 1964
LL.B. (Liverpool)
Recorder (1985)
Michael Wolff has along established criminal practice dealing with all aspects of criminal offences, particularly the more serious cases. He is the most Senior Practitioner in Liverpool, a former head of Chambers 1979-1989.
He regularly appears for the defence, but is also equally experienced in acting for the prosecution.
His knowledge and experience covers a wide variety of criminal cases, including murder/manslaughter, robbery, rape and other sexual offences (including those involving children).
He has had the experience of sitting as a Deputy Circuit Judge and as a Recorder from 1978-1998 and understands full well what judges expect from competent counsel.
Michael Wolff has a number of firsts:-
- The first counsel in England and Wales to have an acquittal in a case of manslaughter, when the majority verdict was introduced.
- The first counsel to have brought a successful appeal to soon after the Theft Act 1968 was introduced. The case involved a matter concerning false accounting and is still of consequence today – R v Eden 55CA-193CA.
- The first counsel to be involved in a case thought to be a result of the television programme, "Crime Watch".
He was also quite recently involved in successfully overturning the conviction of one of the defendants in what is commonly referred to as the "Cameo Murders", a double murder in Liverpool in 1949 for which one of the defendants was wrongly hanged.