Tim Owen (barrister)

Tim Owen QC(1958 - ), is an English barrister at Matrix Chambers.[1] His practice spans the fields of fraud/regulatory, criminal, public, human rights, media and information, extradition/MLA, sports,[2] asset recovery, police and civil law.[3][4][5]

Tim Owen

QC
Born
England
NationalityWelsh
Alma materLondon School of Economics and Political Science
United World College of the Atlantic
OccupationBarrister
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1992; div. 2020)​

Wei Du
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(m. 2020)​
Children2
FamilyOwen, Redgrave

In addition to his practice at the Bar, he sits as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Administrative Court, is an Acting Judge to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and a Member of the Sports Resolutions Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators.  He is a founder member of Matrix Chambers and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.[6]

Education and career

Educated at United World College of the Atlantic and London School of Economics, Tim Owen was called to the Bar in 1983. He was appointed QC in 2000. He is currently a member of Matrix Chambers.

In 2016, Tim Owen defended Rurik Jutting, a British banker who confessed to torturing and killing two Indonesian women in HK, arguing diminished responsibility.[7] [8]The trial evidence included videos of torture Jutting recorded on his phone. They were deemed so traumatising that journalists and the public were prevented from seeing them. [9]Jutting was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.[10][11]

Personal life

Tim Owen was married to actress Jemma Redgrave, a member of the Redgrave family, between 1992 and 2020. They have two sons, Gabriel, born in 1994, and Alfie, born in 2000. He married Chinese journalist Wei Du in 2020.

Publications
  • Prison Law, 5th edition (OUP, 2015)[12]
  • Asset Recovery: Criminal Confiscation and Civil Recovery (OUP, 2021) co-editor[13]
  • Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2021 (Advisory editor)[14]
  • Halsbury's Laws, vol 36(2), Prisons and Prisoners (Butterworths, 1999)
  • Criminal Proceedings, Police Powers and the Human Rights Act 1998 (OUP, 2000) contributing author[15]

References
  1. Matrix Chambers. "Tim Owen QC". Matrix Chambers Members. Matrix Chambers. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
  2. "Tim Owen QC - Sports Lawyer - LawInSport". www.lawinsport.com. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  3. "Tim Owen QC, UK Bar | Chambers Rankings". chambers.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  4. "Tim Owen > Matrix Chambers > London > England | Lawyer Profile". www.legal500.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  5. "Tim Owen QC". whoswholegal. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  6. "Middle Temple". www.middletemple.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  7. "Rurik Jutting: British banker 'had narcissistic disorder'". BBC News. 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  8. "Killings were manslaughter, not murder, banker's barrister tells Hong Kong jury". South China Morning Post. 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  9. "Hong Kong Jury to See 'Torture' Video as British Banker's Trial Begins". Jakarta Globe. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  10. "British Banker Rurik Jutting Guilty of Hong Kong Murders". Time. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  11. Haas, Benjamin (2016-11-08). "Rurik Jutting guilty of murder of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  12. Livingstone, Owen, and Macdonald on Prison Law (Fifth ed.). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2015-08-25. ISBN 978-0-19-968843-2.
  13. Smith, Ian; QC, Tim Owen; Bodnar, Andrew (eds.). Smith, Owen and Bodnar on Asset Recovery, Criminal Confiscation, and Civil Recovery. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-929898-3.
  14. Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2021. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2020-12-08. ISBN 978-0-19-886724-1.
  15. Starmer, Keir; Strange, Michelle; Whitaker, Quincy; Jennings, Anthony; Owen, Tim (2001-05-01). Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Human Rights. Blackstone's Human Rights. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-84174-138-3.
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