Practice area
Criminal offences and defences, sentencing, criminal appeals, confiscation and proceeds of crime, and criminal procedure and evidence.
The applicant, Stephanie Goodman, a woman in her mid forties with no previous convictions, ran a slimming clinic and owned a number of houses. Her husband, Bharat Lukha, known as 'Barry', an electrician by trade, also let out…
Ricardo Williams was a defendant in a criminal trial before Mr Justice Langstaff, the case having come from Liverpool Crown Court, in which the evidence included mobile telephone call data and cell site analysis. Williams…
Deborah Tatton was convicted of a single count of theft before His Honour Judge Glenn and a jury at the Crown Court sitting at Stoke-on-Trent. On 10 May 2008, at 10.45 in the morning, the appellant and her daughter each took a…
The appellant, Ian Norris, a British national born on 15 February 1943, was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Crucible plc, a manufacturer of carbon products based in Windsor with subsidiaries in the United States. In…
On 29 April 2006 Samia Taourit, the first employee to arrive at the Cricklewood premises of Elonex Computers plc, a distribution warehouse for IBM computers, was confronted by a white Mercedes Sprinter van which drove through the…
The applicant, John Anthony Kiely (also known as McDonna), aged 42, had an extensive criminal record — some 30 previous convictions between 1979 and 2008, comprising 69 offences, a very substantial proportion of them burglaries…
The first claimant, Benno Hafner, is a Swiss lawyer and a partner in Hafner and Hochstrasser, the second claimant. In 2003 the Australian Securities and Investments Commission began investigating Rene Rivkin (who died on 1 May…
The claimant, Rifat Mehmet, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in 1983 to 18 years' imprisonment for armed robbery and possession of a firearm. He escaped from prison in 1987 and remained unlawfully at large for some six…
The Attorney General applied under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 for leave to refer three sentences for rape which he considered unduly lenient, each illustrating a different setting. Justin Phipps, aged 33, was…
M was born in January 2000 in Houston, Texas, to A and B, unmarried black African Americans then living in Chicago; A had been moved to Texas by Blessed Trinity Adoptions Inc immediately before the birth for the purpose of the…