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Mia McNevin

Year of Call: 2019

CPS Grade: 2
 

 

Career overview

Mia graduated from the University of Exeter, before completing the Bar Professional Training Course in Birmingham.


Prior to pupillage, Mia worked as a case progression officer for West Midlands Police. Mia undertook case management and associated functions in relation to a range of cases entering into and proceeding through, the criminal justice system.


Mia also previously worked as a County Court advocate, undertaking a variety of interlocutory and final civil hearings including trials and summary judgement applications, on behalf of both claimants and defendants.

Practice Summary

Mia joined Chambers in August 2023, after the successful completion of her 12 month pupillage, under the supervision of Nicholas Berry.

Mia practices in all areas of criminal defence and prosecution.

Mia is listed on the CPS Crown Court General Crime Panel at Level 1.

Details of practice

Crime

Mia is already developing a busy and varied crime practice, regularly appearing in the Magistrates’, Youth and Crown Courts. Mia has also appeared in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division, on behalf of the appellant, who was appealing against a sentence imposed by the Crown Court.

Mia has a reputation for meticulous case preparation, skilled witness handling and being able to make compelling submissions. Recently, Mia secured an acquittal for her client, who was charged with producing a controlled drug, in a multi-handed drug conspiracy Crown Court case. This was despite her client being absent from the proceedings.

During her pupillage, Mia frequently assisted members of chambers in complex criminal cases, including murder and sexual offences.

She has been consistently complimented upon her ability and approach.

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Further Information

Scholarships
  • Queen Mother’s Scholarship – Middle Temple (2018)
  • Advocacy Scholarship – BPP University (2018)
  • Pro Bono Scholarship – BPP University (2018)
Professional Memberships
  • The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
  • Midland Circuit
  • Women in Criminal Law
  • Criminal Bar Association

 

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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 . 

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