Practice Areas
Serious fraud, murder and cases requiring substantial client care. Successfully defended in historic axe murder of private eye Daniel Morgan: linked to phone-hacking, Panorama, C4 – “Murder in the Car Park” and the longest pre-trial legal argument in English Criminal Law. Now featured in ITV’s “The Hack”. Both SFO panels of approved KCs. Rough-justice cases and J.R. for CCRC. Trained with Deloitte.
Cases of note: (P = prosecution)
• Op Campaign (£44 million MTIC - P).
• Op Mazurka (£35m MTIC) (P).
• Tambengwa (Murder and sexual offences on child) (P)
• S (Historic sexual offences. Conviction quashed. Retrial – acquitted)
• M (Sexual offences - conviction (quashed) – re-trial – 2nd appeal: acquitted)
• Hale (Murder – missing victim. Only murder case lost by Sky Crime’s “Real Manhunter”: acquitted)
• B (£1 billion Cocaine importation -acquitted)
• G (£38m carbon credit fraud)
• D (Gross-negligence manslaughter - acquitted)
• JB (£24m MTIC fraud - acquitted)
• B (7 handed murder – acquitted)
• I (6 handed murder – acquitted)
• Rafiq (First-ever prosecution of end user of trafficked labour)
• G (Manslaughter, robbery with firearms- Acquitted).
• K (1.2 million-page immigration and revenue fraud)
• White (Drugs’ murder - C4’S “24 hours in police Custody” - P)
• R (Barrister - conspiracy to defraud – 4 trials – acquitted on each)
• S (Gang murder - rapper)
• MR (Timeshare fraud – 65m documents – 13 month trial)
• Op Salmon (£100m VAT and payroll fraud)”