Latest News and Events from our Barristers and Chambers

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…

After a five week trial at the Old Bailey, B, who had been charged with murder on the basis of encouragement of a friend who fatally stabbed a market trader, was unanimously acquitted.  The remaining defendants were convicted of murder and manslaughter and will be sentenced shortly. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teen-boys-guilty-killing-market-3914048 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28491879

Justin McClintock has secured not guilty verdicts on all charges in a case concerning allegations of serious sexual assault, battery, and witness intimidation (charged as an attempt to pervert the course of justice).  The case was complicated by disclosure failings and the late joinder of the charges. Had the defendant…

Mrs O was refused further leave to remain in the UK on the basis that she had made false representations in her application form by failing to declare that she had pleaded guilty to four offences of shoplifting, for which she had been conditionally discharged. Her appeal was dismissed by the…

John Spencer is Professor of Law at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Selwyn College. He is a lecturer for the Judicial College in relation to Bad Character and Hearsay, having written what have become standard practitioner textbooks on both. Slater & Gordon Lawyers have kindly agreed to host his lecture on…

Michael Collis was instructed by the NMC in a High Court appeal brought by a midwife who had won an earlier High Court appeal by submitting forged documents to the court [2014] EWHC 1862 (Admin)

Giles Morrison gave a lecture on Friday the 20th June in association with MALA. Chambers would like to thank MALA for the opportunity to deliver the lecture and look forward to working together in the very near future.