Cases

Neil Ross has returned from 3 months in the Cayman Islands following the successful prosecution of Canover Watson, the former chairman of the Health Services Authority. The allegation focused on a corruptly obtained contract for IT services worth millions of pounds. During the course of the trial, evidence was heard…

Justin McClintock has secured the unanimous acquittal of an 18 year-old defendant accused of throwing boiling hot water in the face and chest of a fellow inmate at HMYOI Feltham. As a result of the attack the complainant sustained partial thickness skin loss and ‘hyper-pigmentation’ of the skin. The prosecution…

Patrick Maggs secures 3 year reduction in sentence for a “premeditated, cynical, violent and cowardly” robbery on the home of two elderly men. In R v Smith (John Leonard William) & Ors [2013] EWCA Crim 2102 the Court of Appeal remarked upon “his very helpful grounds of appeal” in reducing…

Patrick Moran acts in confiscation proceedings involving notorious fake lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano. Following a lengthy trial in early 2013, the “Devil’s Advocate” was convicted of numerous counts of fraud and deception. David Aaronberg QC and Patrick Moran acted for the Crown. The confiscation proceedings are soon to reach a…

Michael Collis and Ruth Zentler-Munro represented the two defendants in a 3-and-a-half week case at Reading Crown Court. Both defendants were charged with conspiracy to burgle; the conspiracy spanning a six-month timeframe and involving at least thirteen dwelling-house burglaries. Read more on the case here.

Brian St.Louis has secured the acquittal of defendant O in the Oceana murder case. Their client was alleged to have been party to a fatal stabbing in the nightclub in Kingston in October 2012 but he was acquitted unanimously by a jury after two days’ deliberations. The trial lasted six…

Dominic Benthall secured acquittals on the two most serious conspiracy counts out of the four matters faced by defendant ZA in the Oxford sex abuse case. To read press coverage of this case, please see the following links: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oxford-child-sex-grooming-gang-1889867 http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22438623 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/oxford-child-paedophile-gang-council-chief-joanna-simons-insists-shes-will-not-resign-as-seven-men-are-found-guilty-of-child-rape-trafficking-and-organising-prostitution-8616023.html http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10423486.Cameron_warns__searching_questions__sparked_by_child_sex_grooming_case/