Five Paper Buildings

Call:        1978

Silk:        2003

Practice Areas :

Over 30 years practice and experience in criminal law, specialising in criminal defence work, including many high profile defence cases since taking Silk in 2003. A specialist jury advocate, noted for his abilities in cross examination and jury speeches. He has been described as “a class act”.  Substantial experience over a very broad range of serious crime, including murder, firearms cases, complex fraud, substantial drug cases, money laundering and complex confiscation proceedings. Recent cases include representing a solicitor in a multi million pound substantial and complex international fraud case prosecuted by the SFO, the “Matalan” and “Facebook” murder cases, and representing one of the members of the “London Fields Boys” involved in a gang murder, and a former director of Crawley Town FC indicted for multi million pound tax evasion and money laundering allegations. Represented one of the accused in the “Securitas Robbery”, the largest cash robbery in U.K. criminal history, and represented one of the accused in the “Bling Bling” drugs case, said to be one of the largest international drug smuggling cases to appear before a British court.  Represented a solicitor indicted for rape, and defended in a multi-handed Russian Mafia case involving allegations of people trafficking, kidnap and blackmail. Appeared in a ‘landmark ruling’ case involving poker ( “Texas-Hold-Em”), a prosecution brought on behalf of the Gaming Commission. Has appeared in numerous murder cases involving close analysis of a wide range of forensic and expert evidence.