Kannan Siva
Degree: BA (Hons)
Year of Call and Inn: 1996; Gray’s Inn
Professional Membership: Western Circuit; CBA
Practice:
Formerly at Queen Square Chambers, Bristol; Kannan Siva joined Albion Chambers in May 2010.
Kannan has a specialist criminal law practice. He has considerable experience in defending conspiracies, particularly those involving the supply of class A drugs and serious violence.
He is a CPS grade 4 prosecutor and has a particular interest in cases involving vulnerable victims. He also has extensive experience in wide range of cases including murder, serious sexual offences and fraud.
Kannan has been involved in several trials involving the challenge of experts including a professor of veterinary medicine, forensic scientists, psychologists, and doctors in cases involving Asperger’s syndrome.
Kannan has co-presented seminars to medical practitioners on the presentation of evidence in trials alleging sexual offences. Further training seminars have included the topics of hearsay and disclosure.
Cases of interest include:
Defence:
Operation Rebus – multi-handed drugs conspiracy in South Wales involving substantial amounts of class A drugs. Successful double jeopardy abuse argument was upheld on behalf of defendant;
R v Herbert-Stamp – section 18 GBH; vacation of guilty plea; exclusion of basis of plea submitted by previous legal team; defendant acquitted after hung jury;
R v Dewar – junior for the principal defendant in murder. Conducted significant part of legal argument relating to bad character, and conducted cross-examination of several police officers in which defendant alleged that he had been injured by the police;
R v K – rape. A series of sadomasochistic rapes on teenage girl; admissibility of memory of diary entries; appeal against conviction Court of Appeal;
R v Mokhtari – conspiracy to obtain false passports; successful application to exclude evidence (section 78 PACE) on first day of trial where mischief alleged was manipulation of disclosure (beyond the control of the CPS) by one of the main prosecution witnesses.
Prosecution:
Currently instructed by CCU to prosecute a three-week trial alleging serious sexual abuse of a number of independent complainants, to be heard in Liverpool Crown Court.
Prosecution of an openly homosexual man convicted after trial of indecently assaulting a female;
Stranger rapes, where cross-examination has been conducted through the assistance of interpreters, including trial where interpreters were used for prosecution witnesses and the defendant;
Prosecution of trial in which the defendant was convicted of sexually assaulting a three year-old victim. Hearsay evidence of victim. Challenge of defence expert on issue of Asperger’s syndrome.
Albion Chambers, Broad Street, Bristol. BS1 1DR
T: 0117 927 2144
F: 0117 926 2569
kannan.siva@albionchambers.co.uk
Clerk: Nick Jeanes
T 0117 311 0307
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