Experience

Mary Monson Solicitors

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jan 1985 - Present

  Mary Monson was admitted in 1976, having earned her law degree in London. She appeared regularly throughout her early career on Granada and BBC television, taking the opportunity to highlight abuses of her clients in custody by Police in the 1980s. She was known for defending clients alleged to have taken part in numerous shootings and violent incidents in Moss Side, Cheetham Hill and Salford during the Gang Wars of the 1980s. She represented the alleged ring leader in one of the most notorious criminal trials of the 1990s - The Strangeways Prison Riot. Her client was acquitted of murder. More recently, she represented a 14 year old girl arrested at Manchester Airport with £1M worth of heroin. This case was reported on national television and newspapers as far as Russia and the USA. The Prosecution, after a 5 month pre-trial battle with the defence team, dropped all charges. Show less