Recent Cases and News

Our client had nine current penalty points on their licence. They pleaded guilty to two offences of speeding both of which were committed in the course of important work, in pressing circumstances. Both offences were in the lowest category -...

BCM v Judecatoria Sector 4 Bucharest (Romania) [2025] 11 WLUK 361 Ceylon Giles prepared the successful High Court appeal in BCM v Romania [2025] 11 WLUK 361, a rare and exceptional Article 8 case concerning the extradition of a Romanian national to...

L v Regional Court of Veszprem (Hungary) [2024] Ceylon assisted in securing conditional bail for an Applicant in LL v Hungary, granted by Ellenbogen J following a fully contested hearing on 14 November 2024. The case concerned historical theft offences...

T v The Republic of Kosovo [2022] Ceylon Giles assisted in the successful defence of a Requested Person whose extradition was sought by the Government of Kosovo for alleged offences of robbery and possession of a firearm. The sole evidence relied upon by...

U v High Court, Dublin (Ireland) [2022] Ceylon Giles assisted in the successful Article 8 challenge to an extradition request from Ireland concerning a single allegation of burglary dating back to 2013. The Requested Person faced extradition to Dublin to...

I v Russian Federation [2018] EWHC 696 (Admin) [2022] Ceylon Giles assisted in the successful appeal against extradition in I v Russian Federation , a long-running case in which the CPS ultimately conceded it could no longer contest the defence...

Lack of formal notification by the DVLA of the date of revocation of a "new driver" driving licence was sufficient to establish special reasons not to impose penalty points. Our client, who was a "new driver" had incurred six...

Will Paynter and Catherine Mescall secure acquittal in 285kg – £22m importation of cocaine trial This prosecution resulted from a significant cross-border National Crime Agency investigation. YV was accused of being part of a plot to...

Our Mr Matthew Humphreys scored a notable victory in the Youth Court recently, successfully mounting a Modern Slavery Act defence for an autistic youth charged with being concerned in the supply of drugs. Introduced in 2015, section 45 of the Modern...

Our team have been successful in securing the withdrawal of 4 European Arrest Warrants, and the discharge and immediate release from custody of four of our clients. Four of our clients were wanted on the European Arrest Warrants issued by the Polish...