Qualifications and Professional Associations
- LLB (Hons) Manchester University
- Called to Bar 1971
- Queens Counsel 2002
Specialising in all areas of criminal defence work, and listed in Chambers Directory as one of the Leaders of the Bar in Crime.
Qualified to undertake direct access work.
Over many years, has led in numerous high profile cases (including the successful defence of a young soldier accused of murdering a civilian in Iraq) and across the spectrum of most serious crime including gangland and domestic homicide, firearms, armed robbery, drug trafficking, serious sexual offences, fraud, revenue offences and money laundering.
Has conducted cases in many parts of the UK (as well as in London and the South of England), including Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Reading, Leeds, Liverpool, and Plymouth.
Has had extensive experience of dealing with forensic experts, including forensic pathologists, psychiatrists, and accountants, DNA, mobile telephone and cell site, facial mapping, and voice recognition and linguistic experts. Apart from crime, has also undertaken VAT tribunal work and a fact finding hearing in the Family Division of the High Court.
Most recently has appeared in:
Docherty and Others (Northampton Crown Court): principal defendant acquitted of a fraud on Northamptonshire County Council, cheating the Revenue and money laundering offences.
Shane Johnson (Central Criminal Court): one of two brothers acquitted in respect of a gang murder where the two principal victims were stabbed and attacked by pit bulls.
Catalan Hasan and Others (Wood Green Crown Court): principal defendant acquitted of trafficking prostitutes both from Romania and within the UK, controlling prostitution, and multiple rape on 3 women.
