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Mr A. was accused of the vicious and unprovoked stabbing of one man (section 18) and injuring of another (section 47) during a fight between members of the Kurdish community in Leicester.  Both alleged victims gave evidence. Rory Field, instructed by Niraj Keshwala of Archer Maher solicitors, secured acquittals on…

Stuart Dingle has secured the conviction of the defendant for making false allegations amounting to perverting the course of justice, in a case which provides a chilling example of the need for robust representation for people accused of crimes. The defendant in this case had fabricated a series of letters…

Justin McClintock, led by Dean George QC and instructed by Ladan Sabahipour, partner at EBR Attridge, has concluded the defence of a man unanimously acquitted of murder at the Central Criminal Court.   The case was widely reported in the media: BBC News ITV News The Evening Standard

This prosecution resulted from a significant cross-border National Crime Agency investigation. YV was accused of being part of a plot to dupe another van driver into repeated trips into the UK via the Eurotunnel border. Once at Folkestone YV would swap vans with the duped driver and make a journey…

YS was arrested for PWITS x2 in November committed whilst on bail for the same offence a few months earlier in April. He was tried together on both sets of matters.  YS’ defence was that of Modern Slavery to both sets of matters.  Recent caselaw meant that an expert report…

  Following an unsuccessful application to stay the proceedings as an abuse of process on the basis that until 2018 the CPS policy was not to prosecute such offending (in relation to which application Rupert was led by Martin Rutherford QC), the Defendant pleaded guilty to three offences and was…

Kyri Argyropoulos defends solicitor accused of injecting blood into supermarket food. LE was accused of 3 counts of Contaminating Food under s38(1) of the Public Order Act.  LE visited branches of Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose supermarkets on Fulham Palace Road and injected a number of food items with liquids including…

Chloe Carvell represented three defendants charged with assaults against police officers (included kicking, spitting and hitting an officer with a wooden stick to the back of the head) at the West Ham vs Eintracht Frankfurt Europa League semi-final football match. All defendants avoided immediate custodial sentences (two were sentenced to…

Rory Field attended the first reading of the Whistleblowers Bill in the House of Commons by Mary Robinson MP, followed by a roundtable in the House of Lords. Rory regularly works after Court with a small team of expert lawyers assisting the charity Whistleblowers UK. Recently they assisted the all-party…

We are delighted to announce that Markus Findlay has been successful in his pupillage to tenancy application. To find out more information on Markus and his practice, please contact the clerks