General Crime
Information Commissioner’s Office v CC (2025) (Bolton Crown Court)
Representing one of eight defendants charged with conspiring to secure unauthorised access to data held on computers (computer ‘hacking’) and to unlawfully obtain personal data. After a 10-week trial, CC was acquitted of the more serious charge of conspiring the hack computers. Led by Richard Wormald KC.
Read more here and here.
R v FL (2024) (Kingston Crown Court)
Acting on behalf of a defendant charged with rape. It was alleged that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman while she slept. Acquitted.
R v MP (2024) (Southwark Crown Court)
Acting on behalf of a police constable charged with misconduct in public office. It was alleged that he had engaged in an improper relationship with a witness in a live investigation. Acquitted.
(Read more here, and here)
R v AM (2024) (Croydon Crown Court)
Acting for a police officer charged with making, possessing, and distributing indecent images and possessing an extreme pornographic image. Acquitted on all counts.
R v MC (2024) (Kingston Crown Court)
Acting for a young man charged with assaulting an emergency worker and a member of hospital security staff. Automatism and involuntary intoxication raised as a defence. Acquitted on all counts.
R v PB (2023) (Northampton Crown Court)
Representing a Police Sergeant charged with sexually assaulting an officer he was responsible for supervising. Acquitted by a jury following a 3-day trial.
R v Boshein [2023] EWCA Crim 560
Representing a trainee police officer who pleaded guilty to possessing an extreme pornographic image. Sentence reduced from 10 months’ immediate custody, to an 8-week suspended sentence on appeal. The Court of Appeal gave guidance regarding the correct approach to sentencing in such cases.
R v IC (2023 (Leicester Crown Court)
Representing defendant charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon. Acquitted on both counts after a 4-week trial. Led by Matthew Butt KC.
R v G (2023) (Wellingborough Youth Court)
Acting for young defendant charged with rape and assault by penetration. The alleged offences occurred when the defendant was 14 years’ old. He was acquitted of those charges following a 2 day trial.
R v K (2022) (Leicester Crown Court)
Acting for young defendant charged with requiring others to engage in forced or compulsory labour and to supply Class A drugs on a county line between Leicestershire and London. Successful application to have the proceedings stayed as an abuse of process.
R v SOK and JP (2021) (Central Criminal Court sitting at Aldersgate House)
Acting for a defendant alleged to have imported Class A, B and C drugs into the United Kingdom from Los Angeles. Both defendants acquitted on all counts.
Read more about the case here.
R v DH (2019) (Basildon Crown Court)
Acting as a court appointed advocate assisting a defendant to oppose an application for a post-acquittal restraining order. His conviction for sexual assault had been overturned by the Court of Appeal. Following a hearing which involved detailed cross-examination of the complainant the Judge refused the Crown’s application.
Financial Crime / POCA
Company G (2024)
Represented an overseas trust company in a successful application, under section 303Z17A of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, to recover £1.3 million subject to an Account Freezing Order. The company argued that it was the owner of the funds, and a victim of fraud.
National Crime Agency v GLG (2023-24) (Westminster Magistrates’ Court) (ongoing)
Acting on behalf of a company in Account Freezing Order proceedings relating to in excess of £22 million. Led by Simon Farrell KC.
Fresh View Swift Properties Limited v Westminster Magistrates’ Court and Ors [2023] EWHC 605 (Admin)
The first High Court decision to consider the requirements for making an Account Forfeiture Order. Funds passing through an unregistered money service business became recoverable property, and it was not disproportionate to forfeit those funds in the hands of a customer of that business where they were on constructive notice that it was unregistered. Led by Kennedy Talbot KC.
(Read the judgment here)
R v JF (2022) (Derby Crown Court)
Successfully secured the discharge of an ‘all assets’ Restraint Order. The order was obtained in relation to a defendant suspected of laundering part of the proceeds of an investment fraud.
R v SG (2020-22) (Birmingham Crown Court)
Acting for the third defendant in a complex fraud and money laundering trial at Birmingham Crown Court. Led by Luke Ponte.
R v GS (2021) (Isleworth Crown Court)
Acting for a defendant who pleaded guilty to defrauding his employer out of more than £250,000. The court was persuaded to impose a suspended sentence.
AB (2020-21)
Acting for an Iranian national who had bank accounts containing approx. £1.1 million frozen by Leicestershire Police. Following detailed written representations the Account Freezing Order was set aside before the case reached the forfeiture stage. Led by Rachel Barnes.
SS (2020)
Acting for a British-Iranian national who was the subject of an application by HMRC for an Account Forfeiture Order. Following detailed written representations the application for forfeiture was dropped and HMRC agreed to pay most of the respondent’s legal costs. Led by Rachel Barnes.
Civil Preventative Orders
MPS v SYL (2021) (Westminster Magistrates’ Court)
Acting for the MPS in an application for a Stalking Protection Order in relation to a high-profile public figure. The defendant had engaged in acts associated with stalking in relation to a journalist at a national newspaper, along with her partner. The order was granted for a period of 5 years.
Read further following links here and here.
MPS v YZ, QX, GM, YZ and WN (2020-2021) (Westminster Magistrates’ Court)
Acting for the MPS in its first applications for Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders. The applications related to five defendants involved in the trafficking of primarily Chinese women for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Orders were granted in relation to three defendants, with adverse findings made in relation to a fourth. All defendants have now been charged with a raft of criminal offences.
Read further here.
Licensing / Regulatory
New Evaristo Club (‘Trisha’s) (2023)
Acting for one of the oldest jazz bars in Soho during a review of its Premises Licence by the Licensing Authority, supported by the Metropolitan Police Service. Westminster City Council declined to revoke the licence, instead suspending it for 14 days and adding a number of further conditions.
Read more about the case here and here.
Circa Loca (2022)
Acting for a nightclub which had its licence revoked following multiple stabbings at the premises. An appeal against the suspension of the licence as an interim step was successful and the local authority conceded the remainder of the appeal, agreeing to permit the premises to re-open with additional conditions attached to the licence.
117 Trading Limited (2021)
Acting for a company in a successful application for a premises licence. The application was granted in the face of a large number of objections from local residents.
Read further here.
Club 29 (2020)
Acting for the MPS in a successful application to revoke a Premises Licence. The application, robustly opposed, followed a violent brawl outside of the premises which resulted in four people being stabbed.
Public Law, Inquests and Inquiries
Hill v Independent Office for Police Conduct [2022] UKIP Trib 6
Acting for the Claimant in a claim before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The Tribunal found the IOPC to have acted unlawfully in obtaining his communications data. It also delivered a landmark ruling on what amounts to an ‘interception’. Led by Nicholas Yeo.
(Read the judgment here)
Cecil Steven Heilligger v Westminster Magistrates’ Court and Anor [2022] EWHC 1056 (Admin)
Acting for the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis in judicial review proceedings in respect of an unlawful search warrant. Led by Nicholas Yeo.
(Read the judgment here)
Grenfell Tower Inquiry (Phase 2) (2020)
Instructed by the London Fire Brigade to assist with disclosure and the preparation of Rule 9 statements for the Inquiry.
Sanctions
A Non-Governmental Organisation (2023-2024)
Advising a civil society organisation in connection with its investigation into possible breaches of sanctions and export controls by a company exporting goods to a sanctioned country.
Oleg Tinkov (2023)
Acting on behalf of a sanctioned person in a successful challenge to his designation under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Regulatory and Professional Discipline
PS H and PC S (2024)
Representing a Police Sergeant alleged to have facilitated or failed to act on racist, sexist and discriminatory behaviour by a junior colleague. After a 9 day hearing, involving extensive cross-examination, the Panel dismissed almost all allegations and concluded that key witnesses had colluded and had not given truthful evidence.
PC GC (2023)
Acting for a police constable accused of unlawfully accessing a police computer system for a non-policing purpose.
PC MAB (2023)
Acting for a police constable in gross misconduct proceedings arising from his alleged improper sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.