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Patrick Moran has accepted an appointment to become the next Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions of the Cayman Islands. Patrick departed for the Caribbean with his wife and 3 children on 20th February 2015.  He is due to begin work in his new post on 2nd March 2015. During his 2 year tenure as…

Justin McClintock has secured the unanimous acquittal of a mum charged with two counts of money laundering. The defendant allowed her account to be used for the deposit and withdrawal of £10,000.  It was agreed that this money had been obtained by fraud. The issue for the jury was whether the defendant suspected that the…

Patrick Moran was instructed to act on behalf of Ephraim Norman at the Central Criminal Court.  Mr Norman, a 24 year old man suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia, was charged with murder and attempted murder.  The charges followed two separate incidents of random and senseless violence which took place in…

Charles Evans has secured substantial custodial sentences for the burglars responsible for attacking university professor Paul Kohler in his home. The case was widely reported in the print and television media: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paul-kohler-sentencing-gang-polish-5064638 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31056608 http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/30/polish-burglars-jailed-attack-university-professor  http://news.sky.com/story/1418089/burglars-who-savagely-beat-lecturer-jailed http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11379810/Burglars-who-attacked-university-professor-receive-hefty-jail-sentences.html

Brian St Louis and Beth Crocker have just finished a 7 week trial at Birmingham Crown Court defending the ringleader of a sham marriage conspiracy (reported here).  ZA was tried on 6 counts of Conspiracy to Facilitate the Commission of the Breach of Immigration Law by organising sham marriages between…

Following the successful prosecutions, earlier this year, of a fraudster and his accounts clerk for conspiracy to defraud his employers, the Comer Homes Group, of many millions, the fraudster’s wife, JP, was separately prosecuted for laundering the proceeds of fraud. The prosecution claimed that, over a period of some six…

John Greenan has secured a remarkable succession of acquittals in recent weeks in addition to achieving success in the Court of Appeal. Most recently he secured the unanimous acquittal of a law graduate who was accused of a s.18 glassing on a female student in a pub. This followed John’s successful…

The defendants (S & K) were both convicted of robbing their former employers, Phones 4U, Putney, after a three week trial. On 2nd October 2012 the two disguised themselves in Burkas and robbed the store of £40,000 of mobile telephones and accessories. They arrived just at closing time, pretending to be…

James Lofthouse, recently instructed as prosecution trial counsel in the case of R v JC, secured convictions on all 5 counts of money laundering and attempted handling at Croydon CC. JC had been acquitted of similar charges following a collapsed prosecution in Blackfriars CC in 2010 and James’s instruction followed…

R v AN – Southwark Crown Court 28th to 31st August 2014 On the night of 8th December 2013 Mr. N attacked four women on Regent Street at about 5.00 am. He was charged with two counts of attempted robbery. The women reported being set upon by him and dragged from…