Aneurin Brewer is a barrister working in criminal law who is regularly instructed for both the prosecution and defence,  in the Magistrates and Crown Courts.  He has developed a substantial defence practice in the Magistrates’, Youth and Crown Courts appearing in the full range of serious criminal cases from dishonesty, sexual and violence offences to technical and regulatory offences, with particular expertise in narcotics cases. Aneurin has had particular success defending defendants charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing police officers. He also has experience of civil proceedings in the criminal courts, having successfully opposed numerous civil applications for forfeiture, confiscation, extradition and anti-social behaviour orders in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts. Aneurin appears on behalf of members of the armed forced in the Courts Martial. Aneurin regularly successfully appears on behalf of defendants charged with road traffic offences including speeding, drink driving and careless driving, and is regularly instructed on behalf of bus drivers’ unions defending bus drivers from alleged offences arising out of their employment.

Aneurin is a grade 2 prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service and was formerly on the now defunct Attorney General’s list for the South Eastern Circuit. Aneurin also prosecutes in the Crown Court on behalf of the DVLA, the Probation Service and a number of London Boroughs.

Before coming to the Bar Aneurin worked as a speech writer at the Foreign Ministry of his native Barbados, as a project management consultant for several multilateral aid organisations including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank and as a Parliamentary assistant to Chris Huhne M.P.