R v AK | Inner London Crown Court – Conspiracy to commit fraud/money laundering trial, Involved the taking over of customer accounts and transferring funds into mule accounts, the loss to the bank was in the region of £500,000.
R v SB | - Money laundering and PWIS trial involved the cash seizure of over £100.000, trial lasting 5 weeks that included 3 days when 4 experts gave live evidence in relation to the cash seized being partly contaminated. Thereafter appeared in confiscation proceedings when a benefit figure of half that was originally sought was determined following a 2-day hearing.
R v HI | Inner London Crown Court – Money laundering case which involved sums transferred of in excess of a million pounds
R v E & Another | Snaresbrook Crown Court – S18 trial involving youth with learning difficulties and an intermediately, defendant acquitted on all counts following a 2-week trial.
R v YM & Others | - Kidnap/blackmail trial, defendant acquitted on the 4th day of the re-trial following a successful PII application at Wood Green Crown Court.
R v K | Kingston Crown Court – Serious sexual assault where the initial allegation was one of rape, defendant acquitted after a week-long trial.
R v N & Others | Leicester Crown Court – Described in the papers as one of the largest ever seizures of cannabis plants from a factory in Leicestershire.
R v O & Others | Southwark Crown Court – Multiple defendant conspiracies to steal described as `a hugger-mugger robbery`.
R v N & Others | Woolwich Crown Court – Armed robbery by 4 adults of commercial premises in South London.
R v B | Woolwich Crown Court – Aggravated TDA case, involved a celebrity figure with the case featured in the National papers.
R v B & Others | - Possession with intent to supply class A drugs – defendant acquitted following a successful HT submission of no case to answer on the poor quality of the Identification evidence at Woolwich Crown Court.
R v I | Woolwich Crown Court – Successfully argued a stay of the indictment on the grounds of abuse of process following the failure by the police to preserve crucial CCTV evidence.
R v E & Others | Southwark Crown Court – Controlling prostitution for gain. Represented an accountant in a case that involved covert undercover police operation targeting premises run as brothels.
R v L & Others | Inner London Crown Court – Kidnap/blackmail, triad case, was led in a trial lasting a month.
R v B | Blackfriars Crown Court – Separate trials on separate indictments against 2 complainants aged 16 and 17 years of rape and attempted rape, and other of sexual assault.
R v S & Others | Southwark Crown Court – Multiple Identity fraud cases, valued in the region of 3 million pounds, involved 10 defendants (VHCC) led.
R v A | Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court – Importation of Class A drugs following a seizure by customs at City Airport.
R v K & Others | Inner London Crown Court – Multiple defendants Kidnap/Robbery represented the lead defendant.
R v N (EWCA Crim 895) – Appeal against a 30-month sentence where the issue was whether a concurrent rather than a consecutive sentence should have been imposed.
R v S (ECWA Crim) – The appeal against a 7½ years sentence for a S18 GBH/robbery where the argument centred on the level discount that should be open to a defendant who pleaded guilty on the day of trial to an indictment that had been radically altered.
R v U (EWCA Crim 184) – Sentence of imprisonment reduced and suspended together with a substantial reduction on the orders made for compensation and costs.
R v L (EWCA 1054) – A conviction for possession of prohibited firearm quashed, this after an experts report revealed the weapon in question was not a prohibited weapon under the Firearms Act 1968.
R v G (EWCA Crim 407) – Leave to appeal granted against a 24 months sentence for a sexual assault on a disabled elderly victim where the argument centred whether the offence fell outside category 2 of the sentencing guidelines.
R v P & Others (EWCA Crim 2283) – Violent Robbery of a Taxi driver by a group of youths late at night appeal against a 6-year term of imprisonment.
R v O (EWCA Crim 1853) – Leave to appeal granted against a 12-month sentence where a false ID document was used to open a bank account applying the principals laid down in the case of R-v-Ovieriakhi (2009).
R v B – Leave to appeal against sentence granted before the Lord Chief Justice following an oral application on whether an order for imprisonment for public protection imposed (IPP) was appropriate alongside a determinate sentence for serious of sexual offences.
R v S – Importation of 25kg of Cannabis – Sentence reduced on appeal from 4 to 2 years.
R v L (EWCA 1054 [2013] WLR (D) 263) – A conviction for possession of prohibited firearm quashed, this, after an experts report, revealed the weapon in question was not a prohibited weapon under the Firearms Act 1968.
H v FACT 1 Cr.App.R.21, DC – Breach of copyright following a large seizure of tapes/CDs, a case that lasted 5 years from an appeal by way of case stated, Judicial review all the way to the House of Lords, featured in Archbold.
