Practice- Experienced defence practitioner instructed in serious and complex cases both as leading junior and junior - Regularly instructed in cases involving homicide and other serious violence, fraud and financial regulation, the importation/supply of controlled drugs and sexual offences - Thorough preparation and meticulous attention to detail. Strong on legal submissions and flair in presenting case before a jury - Has particular expertise in defending fraud and financial crime including prosecutions brought by the FSA, SFO and HMRC - Often instructed to defend persons with learning disabilities and mental health problems and young persons charged with grave crime - Accepts public access instructions CasesHomicide R v TRJ - Multi-handed murder by stabbing (ongoing) [press coverage click here]
R v G - Multi-handed murder by stabbing (ongoing)
R v MG - Attempted murder (ongoing)
R v Krasniqi - Attempted murder of Bosnian war-criminal Radislav Kristic [press coverage click here]
R v Spence - Murder of the son of the former Prime Minister of Somalia [acquitted] [press coverage click here]
R v Brown - Attempted murder, aiding and abetting assisted suicide [press coverage click here]
Other Serious Violence R v MO - Armed robbery (ongoing)
R v Mfinda - Multiple stabbings; DNA evidence [acquitted] [press coverage click here]
R v Driouch - Operation Withern; August riots
R v McGlue - Operation Withern; August riots [acquitted]
R v Bowman - Operation Intrados; gang violence [press coverage]
R v Simmonds - Operation Hemah; Cash-in-transit robberies
R v Williams - Possession of an arsenal of prohibited firearms/ammunition [acquitted]
R v Taibi - Cash-in-transit robbery [acquitted]
R v Sweeney - Armed robbery; DNA evidence [acquitted]
R v Kane - Wounding with intent; nightclub glassing [acquitted]
R v Zulfiqar - Wounding with intent; stabbing [acquitted]
Fraud and Financial Regulation R v Stewart - Fraud by false representation; Unprecedented & high profile multi-handed trial of private investigators. Acted for only acquitted defendant [press coverage click here]
R v Wilson - Complex fraud by investment banker
R v Williams - SFO prosecution multi-handed mortgage fraud running into millions
R v Azam - SFO prosecution complex mortgage fraud by mortgage broker running into millions
R v Bohat - Production of false identity documents; passport factory
R v Latif - Fraud perpetrated on the trustee-in-bankruptcy
R v Patel - First parent to be prosecuted under the Fraud Act 2006 for catchment area address fraud [acquitted] [press coverage click here]
Drugs and Proceeds of Crime Act R v MA - Multi-handed conspiracy to supply heroin (ongoing)
R v CB - Multi-handed conspiracy to supply cocaine (ongoing)
R v Capone - 'Operation Ettrick' Conspiracy to supply 20 kg of Class A drugs [press coverage]
R v Shaksy - 'Operation Steel'; Conspiracy to import 3kg of cocaine
R v Ghafur - Conspiracy to import large quantities of heroin into the UK from Pakistan concealed inside the mooli vegetable [acquitted][press coverage click here]
R v Capone - Limited role in drugs conspiracy; ring-fencing benefit
R v Solanki - Erroneous application of lifestyle assumptions
R v K - Conspiracy to supply 11.5 kg of cocaine; SOCPA agreement
R v Lindsay - Multi-handed conspiracy to supply cocaine; admissibility of text messages [acquitted]
Sexual Offences
R v JD - Attempted rape, kidnap, sexual assault; DNA cold case review (ongoing);
R v SC - Sexual assault; child complainant (ongoing)
R v Gent - Rape, assault by penetration [acquitted]
R v Nhamoinesu - Assault by penetration [acquitted]
R v Ghirmay - Rape [acquitted]
R v Scott - Rape; abuse of process by delay [stayed]
R v Barrett - Rape, sexual touching; child complainant [acquitted]
R v Barakat - Sexual assault; child complainant [acquitted]
R v R - Rape, sexual assault; child complainant
Other Crime R v El-Togby - Public order; counter-protest against the EDL [acquitted] [press coverage click here]
R v K - K detained in UK prison pending extradition to Algeria having been convicted in absentia for inter alia corruption; charged with supplying drugs [acquitted]
R v Mohammed - Prohibited firearm; exceptional circumstances
R (Terry Adams) v SS for Justice & NPS - Judicial review of licence and MAPPA conditions; Head of well-known Adams family; high level of media scrutiny relied on by defendants to justify the MAPPA Level 3 designation for TA for money laundering offence [press coverage click here]
Court of Appeal/Admin Court R v AD - August riots sentence; unduly disparate (ongoing)
R v BA - Appeal against IPP (ongoing)
R v GM - CCRC Appeal against conviction; erroneous inference from silence direction (ongoing)
R v CB - Appeal against rape conviction; fresh evidence (ongoing)
R v Richards - August riots sentence; unduly disparate
R v Brown [2009] 1 W.L.R. 2158 - IPP substituted for determinate sentence;
R v Regan [2012] EWCA Crim 1974- Cost order; disparity
R v Mayhew -[2011] EWCA Crim 243 - Insufficient credit for guilty plea
R v Pack - Whether deed transfer is a gift caught by the CJA 1988 [press coverage click here]
R v McCann [2009] EWCA Crim 1336- Distraction burglary on elderly; manifestly excessive
R(M) v Herts Constab.[2008] EWHC 2360 (Admin) - Habeas Corpus; manipulation of PACE clock ;
B v DPP [2008] EWHC 1655 (Admin); Appeal by way of case stated: Duty of plain-clothed police officers to produce documentary evidence even when suspect is well known (Archbold 2013, para. 15-54)
Professional Memberships- Criminal Bar Association
- Liberty
- Inquest
- Amnesty International
- South Eastern Circuit
InterestsTravel; world cinema; and supporting Tottenham Hotspur FC Profile updated February 2013
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