Criminal Defence Lawyers



John Wood trained as a Solicitor in Leeds, qualifying in 1986. He became a Partner in a West Yorkshire general Practice in 1991 and was instrumental in establishing the John Wood Partnership in 2000.

John Wilkinson qualified in 1996 and spent an initial period as an Assistant Solicitor in private practice specialising in Criminal Law before joining the John Wood Partnership as a Partner in 2000.

Daniel Smith (road traffic specialist) obtained an LLB Hons in 1998 having previously worked in stock management/retailing for a West Yorkshire plc dealing with a multi-million pound budget.

Katie Edmondson is an accredited police station and court duty solicitor working in all areas of criminal and road traffic defence work.

Emma Radley Emma graduated from Liverpool University in 2004 with an Hons degree in Law. She then obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law in York.


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As a firm of solicitors based in Wakefield our team of criminal defence lawyers are able to attend Wakefield, Leeds, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Barnsley and Pontefract Magistrates' Court or police station at short notice to defend your case.

We have defended those charged with murder and rape, robbery and manslaughter, causing death by dangerous driving and speeding and provide a service from police station to the court of appeal and beyond.

We have a resource of well respected forensic experts who are able to consider subjects as diverse as biochemistry to accident investigation and psychiatry to device calibration and operation.

Able to either travel to your local court to represent you personally or to arrange local representation we can provide advice and representation in all types of road traffic prosecutions and can make written representations to the court and prosecution on your behalf.