Ruth Bingley | Senior Legal Consultant
Ruth Bingley joined Sperrin Law in 2024 as a Senior Legal Consultant. Ruth is based in the Northwest of England but her caseload often comes to her from all over the country.
Ruth has worked in criminal law since 1998, during which time she has developed a strong client base, a result of her down to earth approach and strong rapport building strong as a result of her down to earth rapport with clients and their families and her commitment to ensuring no stone is left unturned in the assessment of the evidence and unused material. She is a true workhorse and is tenacious in her approach to defending her clients. Much of her work comes from recommendation because of her excellent results.
She is highly regarding amongst senior barristers having been described as ‘the best case worker and best case prepper ever worked with’.
She specialises in serious crime and has most recently worked on many cases prosecuted as a result of Operation Venetic and the encrochat hack.
Notable Cases:
She has worked on many lengthy and high profile cases during her profession, one of which was a very lengthy trial at the Swansea Crown Court (2011) and involved the wrongful conviction of three Cardiff men over the Lynette White murder. Many Police officers from the original investigation were charged with corruption and perverting the course of justice. This was a trial lasting over six months until its collapse before Sweeny J following legal arguments around disclosure.
- R v K Liverpool Crown Court. Mulithanded case of robbery and causing explosions. relating to explosion of cash machines. Following a trial and retrial, he was the only defendant to be acquitted..
- R v R Manchester Crown Court Murder case resulting from a failed drug deal. Client acquitted.
- R v De P Manchester CC. Columbian national charged with rape. Client acquitted
- R v J Liverpool CC. Multihanded aggravated burglary – client acquitted
- R v B Manchester CC. Gangland murder, attempted murder, kidnap, robbery. Client acquitted of murder and attempted murder
- R v Carlyle Liverpool CC. Mutli handed conspiracy to supply class A drugs. Client acquitted.
- R v Douglas Manchester CC. Multiheaded conspiracy to import heroin. Client acquitted.
- R v H Sheffield Crown Court. Honour killing of 17-year-old female. Client acquitted, even after a cut throat defence was run by the co-defendant.
- R v C Liverpool Crown Court client charged with drugs and firearms offences as a result of the encro chat hack. Prosecution argued for a leading role on over 16 kilos of drugs and firearms charges. Successfully argued a courier role resulting in a 7 year sentence on the drugs and 5 years for the firearms. On POCA, Prosecution asserted a benefit figure of in excess of £1million and hidden assets of over £300k. This was successfully argued to a benefit figure of just £11k and a nil payment order.
- R v P Manchester Crown Court. Prosecution offered no evidence on a case of rape following detailed disclosure requests.
- R v L Extradition from Spain following 13 years at large. Successfully argued there should be no bail act offence following a thorough examination of the extradition papers. No further evidence was offered for the bail offence and successfully argued for the remand time to count as sentence, which was served in Spain prior to extradition.
- R v C Preston CC successfully argued defendants release from Custody on a custody time limit application.
- R v ZTR Application made under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy for life tariff to be reduced on a murder sentence. Successful in receiving a 12 month reduction on the tariff.