Health, Safety and Environment

New Look Retailers v London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (2010) EWCA Civ 1268 (Court of Appeal guidelines on the Fire Safety Order 2005):

R -v- N Limited and C Limited (2008) EWCA Crim. 1223: (2008) 1 WLR 2684

Hatfield derailment: R -v- Balfour Beatty (2007), Business Law Reports 77:

Alton Towers noise allegation (2007) EWHC 624:

Tebay rail disaster (2007) EWCA 970:

Southall rail crash: Attorney General’s Reference (2000) 3 WLR 195:

Zeebrugge disaster 93 Crim. App. Rep. 72

Fraud

Advising in, and representing, an in house solicitor in the first insider dealing prosecution brought by the Financial Services Authority (2009) Times Law Reports June 23rd

Prosecuting in May and June 2011 for the SFO the former CEO of Langbar for misleading statements to the market.

Defending in Maxwell, Versailles and Blue Arrow

Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (Allied Group) (2001) 1 HKLRD 599

Advising Serious Fraud Office in Leeson/ Barings Bank

Guinness Reference Appeal (1996) 1 Crim. App. Rep. 463

Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal: money laundering provisions (HKSAR -v- Oei Hengky Wiryo) FACC No 4 of 2006

Advising in two major overseas corruption investigations

Advising in first insider dealing prosecution brought by Financial Services Authority (2009)

Media

He represented the Daily Mail in the first internet contempt case in the Administrative Court (2011) EMLR 17.

He represented in July 2011 the Daily Mirror in contempt proceedings before the Lord Chief Justice which the Attorney General argued in person arising from the coverage of the arrest of Christopher Jefferies.

Representing Channel 5 before OFCOM Sanctions Committee (phone in competitions): June 2007

John Cleese -v- Associated Newspapers (2004) ELMR 37

Associated Newspapers (private prosecution) (2008) EWHC 1667

Contempt cases: (1999) EMLR 39: (1998) 1 Crim. App. Rep. 308: (1998) EMLR 711: (1977) 1 A11 E.R. 456

Representing the Daily Mail in the first online contempt case: (AG v Associated Newspapers (2011) EWHC 418 (Admin))
 
Representing the Daily Mirror in the Christopher Jefferies Bristol murder contempt case:(AG v MGN Newspapers (2011) EWHC 2074 (Admin))
 
Representing Associated Newspapers in the Leveson Inquiry

Inquiries

The Southall Rail Accident Inquiry (representing Great Western Trains):

The Hammond Report into the Hinduja Affair (representing the Rt. Hon Peter Mandelson)

The Guildford Bombings Inquiry (representing Surrey Police).

Administrative

Amicus in House of Lords (1999) 2 AC 143

Crime

Representing the Hong Kong Department of Justice in the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong in a case involving an allegation of perverting the course of justice by a solicitor and a barrister (October 2011)

Regulatory

Representing bettors in a lengthy hearing before the BHA into a race fixing conspiracy (October 2011)


Chambers UK - Top Ranked 2009

LEGAL 500 - UNITED KINGDOM