Practice area
Criminal offences and defences, sentencing, criminal appeals, confiscation and proceeds of crime, and criminal procedure and evidence.
Rhamero West, aged 16, was murdered on 9 September 2021 in Manchester. On 8 April 2022, in the Crown Court at Manchester, Ryan Cashin was convicted of his murder; on 11 April 2022 Marquis Richards was convicted of the same murder…
On 9 September 2021 Rhamero West, aged 16, was stabbed to death in Norton Street, Manchester after a chase involving two recently stolen BMW cars and then a pursuit on foot. The prosecution case was that Ryan Cashin, Giovanni…
Ashcott Solicitors Ltd, the appellant, acted as litigator for Joshua Lee in the Crown Court at Manchester. He faced six counts of supplying, and possessing with intent to supply, Class A and Class B drugs. On 27 November 2024…
At around 10.30 pm on 14 October 2022 Mr Koray Alpergin, a well-known broadcaster within the UK Turkish community, was returning home by car with his partner, Ms Dalbudak, when the pair were attacked by a group of males and…
Keith Edun operated a Kik messaging account in the name of Sallyoc1996, set up in January 2020, and used variations of the "Sally" username on other platforms. He was an active participant in a Kik group chat in which the sexual…
The applicant, Suleymaan Ar'raa-ee, was 17 at the time of the offending. The victim was 13. On 16 December 2018 she left home at 11.30 pm to meet him at a public house; they kissed at the back of the pub before walking into a…
The claimant, aged 70, had been in prison for 41 years. In July 1982, aged 29, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 10 years for two offences of rape committed in 1980 and 1981, together with five offences…
The appellant, Julian Myerscough, a lecturer in criminal law, was convicted in 2010 of five offences of possessing indecent images of children and sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment. In 2015, tried before HHJ Peters and a jury…
On 10 August 2019 at around 7pm the appellant, Kai Nathanial Holder, then 17, was riding a stolen motor scooter east along Bedfont Lane in Feltham, West London, a single carriageway residential road with a 20mph limit. His…
The appellant, Roderick Actil, a British national living in England, was the subject of a conviction European Arrest Warrant issued by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris and dated 14 September 2017. The warrant followed a…
On the evening of 26 November 2005 Samdaye Rampersad was kidnapped at gunpoint near her shop in Mendoza Lane, Petit Bourg, Trinidad and Tobago. On 5 January 2006 Nigel Roderique led police to her body, buried in a shallow grave…
The applicant, Mark Anthony Zoth, then aged 33, was sentenced in the Crown Court at Preston on 23 October 2020 by His Honour Judge Knowles QC to a total of 28 months' imprisonment. The first offence, committed on 18 January 2019…
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, a body corporate created by section 68 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, commenced judicial review proceedings on 11 December 2014 against the Department of Justice and the Attorney…
Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar brought judicial review proceedings challenging the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions not to bring a prosecution for alleged cooperation and participation in their rendition to…
Ready Rentals Limited, now in liquidation, brought proceedings in 2010 against Mr Kaamran Ahmed and Mr Aref Zakari concerning a property at 4-6 Victoria Terrace, Leamington Spa. On 28 March 2011 Judge Cooke, sitting as a Judge of…
A Ltd is a company incorporated in England and Wales, part of a multinational conglomerate operating in the power generation and transport sectors. In November 2000 X was appointed chairman and chief executive of A Ltd, while Y…
Bashir Ahmed, a 55 year old British citizen who has lived in Great Britain since 1975 and has no recorded convictions or cautions in the UK, was sought on an accusation European Arrest Warrant issued by the Chief Public…
William Godley was one of the senior figures in the Imperial Consolidated Group, a Lincolnshire-based network of companies which from 1997 promoted offshore investment funds worldwide on the promise of guaranteed high returns and…
The appellant, Mr Brand, a Polish national, was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Regional Court in Krakow seeking his return to Poland to serve the balance — some two years — of sentences totalling three…
On 22 October 1988 the claimant, Andrew Longmire, was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a tariff of 20 years, following guilty pleas to 11 offences of rape, 3 of attempted rape, buggery, indecent assault and 2 offences of…