Philip Allman

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Overview

Philip is a criminal practitioner who prosecutes and defends all-manner of cases in the Crown Court both as led junior counsel and on his own. He is a Grade 3 Prosecutor who is also on both the Rasso and Serious Crime panels. He accepts instructions at a pre-charge stage.

In recent years, the focus of his practice has been prosecuting serious organised crime with multiple defendants including offences involving gang-shootings, large scale drug trafficking and serious violence.

Philip has been instructed to defend clients charged with serious offences including attempted murder, serious sexual violence, supply and importation of drugs, money laundering and dishonesty. He has the ability to put his clients at ease, offers pragmatic advice and explains complex points of law as well as case-theory in a way which is easy to understand.

Crime - Prosecution

• R v N & Others (2024 / 2025) – Led junior in the prosecution of four defendants in relation to a conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration by HGV boat and air. The cse remains ongoing.

• R v D (2024 / 2025) – Originally instructed alone to prosecute a young defendant charged with serious sexual offences against young and vulnerable complainants. The number of complainants grew significantly resulting in the court granting a silk for defence. I now act as junior counsel for the prosecution. The case remains ongoing with trials due to take place in 2025 and 2026.

• R v T & Others (2025) – Led junior in relation to the prosecution of eight defendants for conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life. In addition to multiple firearms and drugs seized, there was a lengthy history of tit-for-tat shootings between rival gangs and murders central to the case.

• R v Y (2025) – Prosecuted a vulnerable defendant who had embarked on a rampage against his neighbours and was prosecuted for a number of offences including a firearms offence.

• R v G & Others (2024) – A trial of three defendants involved in drug supply spanning 18 months where all were running modern slavery defences.

• R v S & Others (2024) – A trial of a multi-handed OCN where the lead conspirators were prisoners who ran their cocaine supply operation from prison.

• R v LJ & Others (2024) – Led junior in a trial involving a conspiracy to import in excess of a ton of cocaine into the UK by boat.

• R v F (2024) – Prosecution of an Operating Department Practitioner (assistant to the anaesthetist) who sexually assaulted a female colleague inside the operating theatre whilst a surgery was ongoing.

• R v M (2024) – The defendant was a disbarred barrister charged and convicted in relation to s.127 Communication Act offences for multiple antisemitic posts to his blog.

• R v N (2023) – Junior counsel in a large scale drug and firearms conspiracy operating in the South West of England resulting from the Encrochat hack.

• R v T & Others (2023) – Appeared as junior counsel in a multi-handed Encrochat prosecution which involved a conspiracy to supply in excess of 500 kilograms of cocaine as well as firearm offences.

• R v L & Others (2023) – A multi-handed trial involving an allegation of attempted murder where one of the defendants was a youth (junior counsel).

• R v B & others (2022/2023) – A conspiracy to rob which involved over 20 armed robberies. Out of the 4 defendants charged, 2 were youths.

• R v J (2022) – Multiple incident allegations of sexual activity with a child over a 6-year period. The defendant was fostering the complainant throughout the offending period.

• R v S & others (2022) – Junior counsel in a long-running insurance fraud involving classic cars. 21 defendants charged.

• R v J & others (2022) – Junior counsel in a 10-handed conspiracy to supply drugs with in excess of 10,000 pages of evidence.

• R v C (2022) – s.18. The defendant assaulted his brother with a metal pole resulting in a 25cm wound across his forehead.

• R v K (2022) – Defendant charged with aggravated burglary which resulted in the victim suffering a fracture to his eye socket.

• R v B [2021] EWCA Crim 731 – A young defendant appealed his conviction following the court’s decision to exclude a positive conclusive grounds decision by the Single Competent Authority (SCA). The Court of Appeal agreed with the prosecution that SCA caseworkers are not experts and a Conclusive Grounds Decision is not admissible at trial. Instructed by the prosecution as led Junior at trial.

• R v C & Others – Instructed as Junior counsel to prosecute an OCG involved in a long-running drug conspiracy.

Crime - Defence (Notable)

• R v B (2025) – A trial in relation to an allegation of attempted murder within a domestic context.

• R v O (2024) – Represented a highly vulnerable defendant with significant mental-health difficulties and persistent suicidal ideations in relation to firearm offences.

• R v M (2023) – Instructed to represent a victimless prosecution of s.18 unlawful wounding which concerned a slash to the neck.

• R v K (2023) – Young defendant prosecuted for a large-scale violent disorder.

• R v M (2022) – 2 defendants alleged to have kidnapped a male acquaintance.

• R v M (2022) – Instructed to represent 1 of 2 defendants charged with robbery of a high-street jewellers to the value of £100,000.

• R v R (2021/2022) – The defendant had significant mental health issues and a large number of allegations mostly for violence. Recently tried in relation to an allegation of sexual assault against a young school girl.

• R v B (2021) – A trial representing 1 of 2 defendants both charged s.18 GBH with intent using both an axe and a knife.

• R v D (2021) – A trial representing a young man who was 1 of 5 defendants all charged with affray outside a nightclub

• R v L – Allegation of serious sexual assault with penetration. A significant part of the prosecution evidence relied upon forensic examination and DNA recovered.

• R v C – Defendant alleged to have caused his father GBH with intent. There were issues in relation to the defendant’s mental state at the time.

• R v X – Defendant, and two co-defendants, were charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

• R v M – Instructed as junior counsel in a multi-handed drug conspiracy which lasted 6 weeks.

Disclosure

Instructed as disclosure counsel in two high-profile cases.

• The Hillsborough disaster which involved analysing statements, exhibits and reports obtained throughout a thirty-year period. It also necessitated a hybrid-approach to disclosure combining the pre-CPIA disclosure regime with the current test for disclosure.

• The HBOS banking corruption case with over 300,000 pages of evidence. There was a large amount of LLP material which had to be carefully considered as well as multiple disclosure requests from the defence.

LLB – University of Swansea
LLM (Financial Regulation and Compliance) – BPP

News

7 Aug 2025

Harrow Road Boys gang members jailed for a combined total of 116 years – Phil Allman led by Ian Mcloughlin KC for the Crown

Philip Allman, led by Ian Mcloughlin KC, prosecuted a gang who, in the summer of 2022, engaged in tit-for-tat killings and shootings against rival...

20 Mar 2024

Bristol drugs gang jailed for 35 years – Rebecca Austin led Philip Allman for the Crown

The gang supplied millions of pounds worth of cocaine. The investigation was led by the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) using data...

15 Mar 2024

A disbarred barrister who posted grossly offensive antisemitic material online has been sentenced – Philip Allman prosecuted for the Crown

Between May 2021 and April 2022, Ian Robert Millard persistently posted about his hatred of Jewish people online, while claiming he was simply exercising...

15 Dec 2023

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