Mr W faced a serious dilemma when his two friends decided to burgle a house whilst returning from a night out. He kept his distance from the house but he should have kept on walking if he had been wiser. He also should not have run and hid when the police...

Our client Mrs AL was arrested after police noticed her expensive Rolex watch during a routine stop and search. They believed it may have been stolen and suspected her of handling stolen goods. Our client gave a full account in interview explaining that...

Mr E and his wife and nephew were charged with pickpocketing from a tourist in Portobello.  The Crown alleged they were part of an organised team and an immediate custodial sentence is often passed. After requests for disclosure, there were...

Our client, a young man, was arrested by police in possession of 30 wraps of class A drugs on a West London housing estate. The police charged him with the very serious offence of class A drug dealing. Our client accepted that he was in possession of the...

Our Client, Mr P had pleaded guilty to 4 separate counts of criminal damage on the railway. He was said to be part of a graffiti gang responsible for over £30,000 of damage to overground and underground trains and had committed...

Mr S was due to stand trial this week on a serious charge of assault.  The incident took place in a shop with at least 7 CCTV cameras.  An application was made for the case to be thrown out due to "catastrophic failures" in 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 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...

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...

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...

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,...