Latest News and Events from our Barristers and Chambers

Justin McClintock last week concluded the successful defence of a maths teacher charged with assaulting two students after a year 13 prom. Justin’s client accepted keeping one complainant in a headlock for 15 seconds but successfully argued that this was in pre-emptive self–defence. Evidence was heard from seven eyewitnesses during the course…

Michael was instructed by Peter Bonner & Co to represent a 16 year old male who had originally pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the youth court, and who had been committed for sentence to the Central Criminal Court.  It had been alleged that the young defendant had both strangled…

Michael Hillman has successfully prosecuted a GBH in a road rage case at Wood Green Crown Court, where the defendant Uber taxi driver deliberately rammed a motorcyclist causing serious injury.  

Siobhan Molloy secured not guilty verdicts defending a 50-year-old self-employed builder who was tried for rape and assault by penetration. The defendant was accused of raping the daughter of one of his customers whilst working on their house. He was unanimously acquitted by the jury.

Patrick Maggs secured a unanimous acquittal at Leicester Crown Court after 25 minutes jury deliberation in a s18 stabbing. The complainant alleged the defendant, his former school friend, repeatedly stabbed him multiple times in a revenge attack for a supposed drug debt. The defendant’s shoes were contaminated with the complainant’s…

Beth Crocker, instructed by Martin Murray and Associates, secured the acquittal of her client accused of smashing a bottle over her boyfriend’s head. The alleged assault caused lacerations to his nose, neck and back.  The bottle incident was the last in a catalogue of physical assaults including putting cigarettes out…

On Friday 31st March our Practice Manager Tom Parker (pictured in red) participated in the Queensbury Legal Boxing event organised by Murray’s Partnership Solicitors and 2 Hare Court Chambers. The event raised £6,390.00 for The Rainbow Trust children’s charity. Tom was successful on the night winning with a 3rd round…

The Crown alleged that defendant was involved in the dousing in pure sulphuric acid of a sleeping man in a love triangle gone wrong.  The prosecution could show the defendant had purchased the acid, tested its effectiveness on raw meat, talked to individuals about a planned acid attack, was very…

After a three week trial at the Central Criminal Court Patrick Maggs’ client was acquitted of attempted murder, an incident said to have been inspired by a foiled drugs robbery. The Crown alleged that the defendant could be heard planning and then bragging about events in a series of recorded…

International Women’s Day 2017 has been heralded by Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement that there will be further reforms to strengthen and advance the protections afforded to women who have been the victims of domestic violence: a crime that continues to blight the lives of many women. Whilst any reform…