YS was charged with sexual touching on a tube station. This alleged offence was witnessed by a plain clothed police officer, who had been following YS for 20 minutes. Both the victim and the police officer made almost identical statements outlining the...

We represented Mr R who faced a very serious allegation of robbery of a pregnant woman whilst in possession of a knife. The parties were known to each other so identity was not in issue. Mr R had numerous previous convictions for robbery (some with a...

How the Sunday Times chose to report this case: Call girls, cars and champagne — migrant gang's £4.5m tax scam Ukrainian gang jailed after three-year scam netted members millions of pounds to spend on cars, holidays and prostitutes ...

Normal 0 We represented a 13 year old youth who was acquitted of assault in the playground of his school.  The trial was a difficult and sensitive one with complex issues of confidentiality...

Normal 0   Mr S was accused of burgling the store he had recently been deputy manager of but had left to take up a new job elsewhere. During the course of the burglary the store door was unlocked...

There has been considerable news coverage of the dangers of buying high value items for cash from websites like Ebay and Gumtree. The advice is to travel during daylight hours, arrange to meet in a mutually convenient and safe place, try to get to know as...

The family courts have been issuing orders to protect former partners in a relationship for many years, and an alleged breach of a so-called Non-Molestation Order carries not only a power of arrest but the prospect of criminal prosecution. It used to be rare...

There has been considerable news coverage of the dangers of buying high value items for cash from websites like Ebay and Gumtree. The advice is to travel during daylight hours, arrange to meet in a mutually convenient and safe place, try to get to know as...

Mr B was charged with dozens of thefts of motorcycles and cars over a period of a year. The police had conducted surveillance on him and monitored his movements but had not seen him do anything untoward. He was eventually arrested at his home address. ...

Mr Y was a minicab driver and was charged with Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) after it was alleged that he had come back to his minicab office and swung a car-jack at the head of his controller causing lacerations to his hands. Our preparation for the case...

In the early hours of 22nd March 2008, the Blue Room nightclub in High Wycombe erupted into violence. There were CCTV cameras inside and outside which showed dozens of people being involved. A large group had gathered at the entrance and one man was...

Conspiracy to defraud the Home Office. We represented the lead defendant who was accused, with others, of running an immigration agency, Univisas, the provided over 1000 visa applicants with false educational certificates (in conjunction with the London...

KH was the proprietor of what was alleged to be a bogus college supplying fake educational documentation to assist a vast number of would-be student visa applicants to obtaining UK visas from the Home Office that they were not entitled to. This case lasted...

Harrow Crown Court. We represented CC who was charged with administering a noxious substance with intent to injure. At around midnight one evening CC telephoned the emergency serves stating that she had poisoned her husband and that she had intended to kill...

Trial July 2009. Central Criminal Court. Murder. We represented MS who was acquitted at a trial following a successful submission of no case to answer. MS was one of 5 accused of shooting Wayne Freckleton in a barber's shop in Harlesden on 25 April 2008,...