About Henry Milner - Solicitor and Higher Courts Advocate

Henry Milner qualified from the London School of Economics in 1975 and set up his own legal practice in 1978. He has been involved defending in a very large number of the more serious cases in the last 30 years.

From 1983 onwards he was instructed to act on behalf of numerous defendants in all the series of Brink's Mat Robbery Trials. He acted in the defence of the only two acquitted defendants in the Dome Robbery Trial.

During his career he has also acted for the defence in a good number of the more widely reported murder cases, as well as some of the most serious cases involving Customs and Excise prosecutions, fraud, money laundering and large scale drug importations. His firm has also been involved in many successful Criminal Appeals and Confiscation Appeals (both in the Criminal and Civil Courts).

He is a Higher Courts Advocate appearing in Court on occasions in person for the client as well as preparing the case for trial. He also personally specialises in bail applications.

He has always veered away from transforming his practice into a large scale 'factory style' organisation, believing that this would result in the lowering of personal service and attention to detail which is so crucial to a successful defence, and which can tend to be lost in large criminal defence practices.

In 1998 he was the subject of a full interview, which was printed in the Sunday Times regarding his criminal practice.

He is also the author of several articles which have been published over the years in the Law section of the Times newspaper. These are reprinted in full on this website, together with the Sunday Times interview, and two of his Short Stories.