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E: jandmboardman@aol.com Call: 1979 Appointments: Past Member of the Bar Council Professional Membership: SE Circuit CBA, CCC Bar Mess London Common Law Bar Assoc., Heads of Chambers (London) Committee Academic Background: B.A. (Econ) Manchester LLB, Kings College, London |
AREAS OF EXPERTISE Criminal Defence Professional Standards and Discipline Regulatory, Confiscation and the Seizure of Assets. Michael is highly regarded and respected as being one of the leading Leading Juniors at the Criminal Bar. He has a high quality, solely defence, practice covering the full range of serious criminal offences. He also specialises in defending at Disciplinary Tribunals, and increasingly, in money laundering allegations. CASES OF NOTE He has been involved in a large number of high profile and notable criminal cases and important Police Discipline cases in the past years including: Rv. Hysenaj and Others (the £53 million Securitas Robbery, representing the alleged “Inside Man”) R. v. O'Boyle and Others (the alleged attempt by the Detroit Mafia to take over the supply of cocaine into Western Europe) The Chelsea Three (police officers accused of the assault of the son of a leading public figure) R. v. Plank and Others (the Jamie Robe murder, recently dramatised by the BBC) R. v. Phillipou and Others (a huge VAT carousel fraud) R.v. Andrews and Others (the Robinson's Green Form Fraud on the Legal Aid Board) R. v. Ulcay and Others (one of the most significant allegations of people smuggling) R. v. Pritchard and Others (one of the largest seizures of cocaine in the UK now the subject of a television documentary) The Sgt Gurpal Virdi Discipline Case (allegation of the sending of racist hate mail by a police officer) |
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