Kathryn Hirst has secured the conviction of an Army Training instructor charged with raping an army cadet. The case is reported here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/army-training-instructor-jailed-raping-5699179
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The Supreme Court handed down judgment on 22nd April 2015 in the case of R v GH (2015) UKSC 24. Their Lordships I am pleased to report upheld my appeal against a terminating ruling pursuant to section 58 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 made in September 2013 in a…
15NBS Chambers gave the annual Midland Asian Lawyer Association lecture in Leicester on Friday. David Aaronberg QC gave a master class on honour based crime and forced marriages. Patrick Maggs lectured on the new Slavery Act. Sonal Dashini spoke about the new revolution in how vulnerable witnesses are…
15NBS Chambers is delighted to announce that Ross Cohen has joined Chambers. Ross was previously a tenant at Furnival Chambers and is is a highly sought after and skilled barrister of 13 years standing. He has a busy and successful Crown Court practice; specialising in serious crime, particularly…
In R. (on the application of Wright) v CPS [2015] EWHC 628 (Admin) the appellant had been convicted of possessing a quantity of Psilocybin (magic mushrooms), a controlled drug of Class A. Justin McClintock (instructed by Kim Lee of Fosse Law) successfully argued that ‘expert evidence’ regarding the identification of the mushrooms as Psilocybin was…
James Lofthouse successfully prosecuted Jamie Taylor at Maidstone Crown Court. Despite inconsistencies in the victim’s evidence and a lack of corroboration, Taylor was unanimously convicted of a string of rapes and other sexual assaults of a girl aged 4 to 7 between 2001 – 2004. He was sentenced to a…
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
