Tom Parker

Kyri’s client was initially accused of being concerned in the supply of over 7kg of cocaine – category 1.  After the successful submissions the basis of plea was accepted and sentence was restricted to text messages. the Crown continued to insist that the case fell within category 2 given messages…

Following a two month trial at the Central Criminal Court John’s client was acquitted of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. The case centered on thousands of messages that had been obtained following the breaking of the encrochat network. The Crown alleged that the gun that was…

After a 5 day trial at Snaresbrook Crown court Stephen Akinsanya successfully defends a care worker charged with Making threats to kill, Intentional strangulation, Assault occasioning actual bodily harm, Possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause violence, Threating another with a bladed article. This sensitive case involved a…

Earlier this year Robert Evans secured convictions in Wood Green predator rape case. Today Chand was sentenced to three sentences of life imprisonment. The circumstances of the offence were these. 18 days after he had finished his licence period from a 9 year sentence for rape, predatory rapist Michael Chand…

Rupert, led by James Wood KC of Doughty Street Chambers, featured in an interlocutory appeal from the Crown Court to the Court of Appeal, having raised an exceptional argument that the Crown Court could use section 78 of PACE to exclude evidence that the defendant, who was from a conservative…

Rise of a RASSO counsel If we fail to nurture women’s collective talent at the Criminal Bar, half the population of this country will not be properly represented. We cannot let all the hard work be undone, says Tana Adkin KC Four years ago we were rightly celebrating 100 years…

Kamaladin Ismael was charged with a series of serious offences, including multiple robberies,  over two indictments. He entered guilty pleas and was sentenced by Leicester Crown Court to a Youth Rehabilitation order on the basis of complex vulnerabilities and mental health needs. Fosse law were not involved in that process,…

We are delighted to announce Yasmin Ford and Sophie Evans that and have both accepted an invitation to join chambers, following the successful completion of their pupillages.

Joseph Carr was recently instructed to represent a 40-year-old man charged with being concerned in the supply of cocaine, in a trial which lasted five weeks at Southampton Crown Court. The defendant was one of five accused of involvement in an enterprise operating principally over ‘Encrochat’ between 2019 and 2020,…

15NBS will be adopting the CBA Wellbeing Protocol with effect from 27th April 2024. This is to be formally announced at the CBA Spring Conference.