SUCCESS STORIES

CRIMINAL LAW

Where a person was accused of causing death by careless driving in which he was the rider of a motorcycle and the deceased was his pillion passenger. There was a great deal of pressure put on the deceased’s family to prosecute this matter and indeed there had to be two trials because initially a jury could not come to a decision. At the second trial our client was found not guilty. This was a highly charged emotional case that was a tragic accident and wrongly prosecuted.

REGULATORY LAW

I have dealt with a corporate manslaughter case involving the manager of a transport company falsely accused of being involved in a fatal double killing by a lorry driver employee that, it was said, was driving when he was tired and having exceeded his driver’s hours. Purportedly scientific evidence had to be dispelled and given the number of drivers and extent of the evidence a great deal of investigation was required in order to dispel the myth created by the police of corporate responsibility for what was a traffic accident that was explained by the ill-advised driving of the deceased’s driver and the individual carelessness of the lorry driver involved rather than that carelessness spreading back to his employers. That was a lengthy case and a matter that I specialise in.

CRIMINAL LAW

A false allegation made of sexual assault, which potentially would ruin the life of a student falsely accused of this. I am involved in a lot of allegations which involve false suggestions of sexual impropriety which gives rise to the police investigating serious sexual offences. This young man has no previous convictions and no experience of criminal law and the best legal team had to be coordinated in order to deal with this matter in respect of which under cross-examination the jury were persuaded that this allegation had no merit and he was found not guilty.

CRIMINAL LAW

A murder allegation heard at the Old Bailey where it was alleged that my client had strangled the deceased and concealed his body. The jury found the defendant not guilty and the evidence that was challenged was whether the indication of strangulation could have been caused by a fall rather than strangulation. The jury found the defendant charged with murder not guilty.

CRIMINAL LAW

Client charged with a serious assault upon a child who had a history of severe mental illness who suffered auditory hallucinations relating to Prophet Mohammed’s sister. The suggestion was that the baby which was in the house was injured as a result of my client dropping the baby. He was unfit to give instructions and unfit to plead and rather than receive a criminal conviction he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act following a trial rather than sent to prison.

REGULATORY LAW

I have acted for a company who were accused of not taking sufficient care of a sub-contractor who was electrocuted on the farm site when a ladder touched a high tension electric cable and caused the death of the sub-contractor. Whilst the company was convicted, the financial penalty was significantly reduced from what one would expect in the circumstances.