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Cally Keenan

Year of Call: 2023

Career overview

Cally graduated from the University of Sheffield, before completing the Bar Professional Training Course with LLM in Birmingham. Prior to pupillage, Cally worked as a Probation Services Officer across Worcestershire and qualified as an accredited mediator. Cally has also volunteered with both Citizens Advice Bureau and the Citizens Advice Witness Service.

Practice Summary

Cally joined Chambers in October 2025, after the successful completion of her pupillage, under the supervision of Andrew Davidson.

Cally practices in all areas of criminal defence and prosecution across the Crown Court, Magistrates Court, and Youth Court. She makes clear, concise, and structured submissions and is experienced in dealing with defendants with complex additional needs. She is a calm and professional advocate who builds a strong rapport with clients whilst providing realistic advice.

She has appeared on appeals against conviction and sentence across a range of offences. Cally is listed on the CPS Crown Court General Crime Panel at Level 1 and has appeared on behalf of the National Probation Service. She has undertaken additional training in representing child clients through the Youth Justice Legal Centre.

Details of practice

Scholarships and Awards

 

  • Robert Pulford Scholarship 2016-2017
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Witness Familiarisation Support And Courses

These are a few examples of courses in which our members have been involved:

  • Witness familiarisation with trainee police officers and special constables from Northamptonshire Police, where the officers were questioned regarding their statements about ‘mock’ arrest exercises
  • Similar exercises with detectives from the West Midlands Police
  • Witness familiarisation with officers of the Northamptonshire Probation Service.  These officers were given training on the process of giving evidence in sentencing hearings in the Magistrates Court and Crown Court
  • Expert witness familiarisation and training, with expert witnesses such as independent Forensic Scientists, and officers of the Health and Safety Executive. The exercises involved questioning regarding expert reports prepared by the participants

Equal Opportunity Policy

 

Citadel’s members come from a range of backgrounds and everyone is treated with the same respect as part of our Chamber’s community. 

 

We operate an equal opportunity policy and act in accordance with the Bar Code of Conduct and the Equality Code for the Bar.

 

We seek to prevent direct or indirect discrimination towards our clients, staff, tenants and pupils, on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality or citizenship, political persuasion, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or age.

Maternity / Paternity Policy

We support all members  who  are fortunate enough to become parents.   Whilst Citadel has written policies dealing with issues of maternity and paternity leave for members of Chambers and support staff, we also try to be flexible in our approach and to accommodate individual needs.

Uniquely (to our knowledge) we offer direct financial support to members returning from parental leave in order to cushion the cash flow impact of return to practice . 

Click here to listen to a podcast about our members with children and how we deal with childcare issues.