Efstathios Divaris

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Overview

Before transferring to the Bar, Efstathios Divaris was a solicitor with higher rights of audience in a leading London firm of solicitors where he gained extensive experience in serious crime, white-collar crime and extradition. Since his transfer to the Bar, Efstathios prosecutes and defends in the Crown Court and is regularly instructed in a wide range of cases, including serious violence, drugs, firearms, sexual offences and dishonesty. Efstathios is a level 3 prosecutor on the CPS general crime panel.

Efstathios is on the SFO Prosecution Panel C list of junior counsel.

Efstathios is qualified to accept instructions on a direct access basis in suitable cases.

Crime

Efstathios has extensive experience of prosecuting and defending in the Crown Court in a wider range of offences. He has recently appeared in the Court of Appeal for the Prosecution in an appeal against conviction in a sexual assault case. The Court of Appeal found that the conviction was safe and dismissed the appeal.

R v M – Inner London Crown Court. Prosecuting in a trial of wounding with intent where the Defendant stabbed another on a bus. The Defendant was convicted.
R v L and P – Reading Crown Court. Prosecuting in a trial of a robbery of an exotic dancer. Both Defendants were convicted and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment between them.
R v W – Inner London Crown Court. Prosecuting in a trial of sexual assault where the victim was under 18 years old. The Defendant was convicted.
R v BA – Wood Green Crown Court. Prosecuting in a trial of coercive and controlling behaviour and malicious communications. The Defendant was convicted after a 6-day trial and sentenced to 30 months imprisonment.
R v G – Warwick Crown Court. Sexual assault of a child under 13 – Defending. The Defendant was accused of sexual assault of the daughter of his partner. The prosecution offered no evidence after the jury could not agree on a verdict.
R v Jordan Hernandez [2023] EWCA Crim 814 – Court of Appeal. Appeared for the Prosecution in an appeal against conviction. The appeal was dismissed.
R v C – Court of Appeal. Appeal against sentence – Appeared for the appellant, a youth, who had been sentenced to an extended sentence of 5 years detention and 2 years on licence for robbery of a pensioner who had suffered life-changing injuries as a result. The Court of Appeal quashed the sentence and substituted a determinate sentence of 5 years detention.
R v Heaven (Damien Daniel) [2024] EWCA Crim 88 – Court of Appeal. Appeared for the Prosecution in an appeal against conviction.
R v M [2024] – Croydon Crown Court – Prosecuting a man who was convicted of S.18 GBH and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/24209077.penge-man-tortured-boiling-water-universal-credit/