Adam Hiddleston practises in criminal law for both prosecution and defence. He is an expert in regulatory crime.

Prosecution

He receives instructions from the CPS, including the Special Casework Unit, in cases involving allegations of murder, manslaughter and other serious violence, serious sexual offences, drugs offences, immigration offences and fraud. He is a Grade 4 prosecutor.

Recent cases include:

R v Bowyer & Others - Led by Queen's Counsel in manslaughter prosecution of a mother who had refused to take her son to hospital after he had consumed her methadone.

R v Phillips & Others - 8 week trial, leading junior counsel. An alleged conspiracy to steal high value plant machinery from across the south of England and export it to Cyprus.

R v Pour & Others (Operation Starfish) - 10 week trial, leading junior counsel. A conspiracy to supply cocaine in and around Bournemouth.

He has been appointed to the Attorney General's list of approved counsel.

He is regularly instructed by various other agencies to prosecute including, local authorities (trading standards, planning law and various other regulatory offences), the police (in relation to orders relating to sex offenders and confiscation matters), the Environment Agency, the HSE and the RCPO.

Defence

He regularly receives instructions from defence solicitors in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset. Recent instructions involved allegations of rape, child cruelty, conspiracy to supply drugs, the selling of counterfeit software, breaches of health and safety (including fatalities) and firearms appeals. He has advised, pro bono in a proposed appeal of a conviction for murder in Jamaica.

He defends in Courts Martial, both in this country and abroad, appears on behalf of prisoners at parole and similar hearings and appears before various regulatory tribunals such as the General Optical Council.

Adam Hiddleston was a Pegasus Scholar to New Zealand in 1995. He was the Western Circuit Wine Treasurer from 2002 to 2006 and the Circuit Junior from 2006 to 2008.

He has been a member of the Bar Council since 2008 and sits on the Public Affairs Committee. In late 2009 Adam travelled to Mexico as a member of a delegation from the Bar Human Rights Committee.