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E: - Call: 1991 Professional Membership: CBA & South Eastern Circuit |
BIOGRAPHY Instructed on a regular basis as leading counsel. An excellent trial counsel. Considered to be tactically astute. Solicitor, client and jury friendly. Specific expertise in major drugs and serious sex cases. Extensive experience in cases involving: • Significant disclosure / P.I.I. / third party issues. • Defence of duress. • Claim of entrapment. • Defendant turning Queen’s Evidence. • Organised crime gangs. • Mental health issues. • The cross examination of child witnesses. • Fraud (DS.S., credit card and car ringing) CASES OF NOTE R-v-Ahmed, Birmingham C.C. - leading counsel - a large scale and complex car cloning case. Issues:- the admissibility of bad character evidence, cut throat defence, fit up, and detailed analysis of voluminous exhibits. R-v-Ali, Birmingham C.C. - leading counsel – 4 handed case - the gang rape and false imprisonment of two 13 year old complainants, over a 3 day period, in 1995. The client was arrested in 2004, on the basis of advances in D.N.A. technology. Issues:- submissions re: abuse of process (investigative failings) / when to make the application, third party disclosure, and a section 41 application. R-v- Khan, Birmingham C.C. – likely to be a leading brief / V.H.C.C. case - a 5 handed conspiracy to steal high value cars – waiting to be served with case papers (circa 10,000 pages). R-v-Feeney, Birmingham C.C. – the rape and indecent assault of a 13 year old complainant (a school friend of the client’s step daughter / girlfriend of client’s step son). Issues:- grooming, expert evidence as to defendant’s penile dysfunction, section 41 application and cross examination via video link. R-v-Cagali, Southwark C.C. – a 16 handed conspiracy to supply Class “A” drugs. Issues:- 100 hours of undercover surveillance evidence and test purchasing audio / video tapes, duress and entrapment. R-v-Collier, Southwark C.C. – an historic indecent assault of 5 complainants, when they were between the ages of 4 and 12 years of age. Issues:- abuse of trust. The Client is 68 years of age. R-v-Osman, Wood Green C.C. – a conspiracy to supply Class “A” drugs. Issues:- duress and entrapment. R-v- Malik, Birmingham C.C. – 4 handed conspiracy to commit armed robbery. R -v- Zafar, Birmingham C.C. – 3 handed major conspiracy to defraud / credit card fraud – waiting to be served with case papers. R-v- Chattu, Wolverhampton C.C. – attempted murder recently reduced to section 18 O.P.A. 1861. Issues:- complainant in coma for 6 weeks, causation and joint enterprise. CURRENT CASES (i) Two Counsel cases:- R-v-Rainford, Kingston C.C. - leading counsel – an 8 handed conspiracy to import Class “A” drugs from several islands in the West Indies and South America. Further, a conspiracy to supply the drugs within the U.K. Issues:- a cut throat defence, cell site analysis, mobile phone evidence, significant disclosure matters. A difficult client. Case papers - 7,000 pages. R-v-Taylor, Blackfriars C.C. - leading counsel – a 6 handed conspiracy to commit armed robbery / burglary of circa 75 supermarkets and warehouses, in the South East, over a 12 month period. Issues:- a cut throat defence, the extent of the clients involvement and cell site analysis. R-v-Allahverdyan, Harrow C.C. - leading counsel – a 6 handed conspiracy to commit kidnap, false imprisonment, blackmail, rape, indecent assault and possession of firearms with intent re: 3 complainants. Issues:- Similar Fact Evidence and the admissibility of the statement of an unavailable complainant. The defendants were described by the Crown as “dangerous members of a mafia style, Eastern European protection racket”. R-v- Nazim, Croydon C.C. - leading counsel – V.H.C.C case - a major 7 handed conspiracy to import and supply Class “A” drugs within the UK. Issues:- probe evidence relied upon by the Crown, mobile phone and observation evidence. Client 65 years of age. R-v- Bull, Maidstone C.C. - junior counsel - 7 handed conspiracy to import Class “B” drugs. Issues:- one defendant turned Queens Evidence. My client’s co-defendant brother, was a serving National Crime Squad officer during the conspiracy. Case stayed for abuse of process after 3 month hearing. R-v- Hussein, Nottingham C.C. - junior counsel - 7 handed Murder. Issue:- 16 year old contract killer turned Queens Evidence. R-v- Sugirthan, Middlesex C.C. - junior counsel – Murder. Issues:- conflict of expert evidence as to whether stab wound was consistent with claim of self defence. Whether Client fit to plead and stand trial. Mental Health Act disposal. R-v- Kharazian, Blackfriars C.C. - junior counsel - V.A.T. fraud over 8 years by West London chain of restaurants. R-v- Gomez, Sheffield C.C. - junior counsel - possession with intent to supply “Class A” drugs. Issues:- entrapment and or fit up. R-v- Singh, Birmingham C.C. - junior counsel - 6 handed conspiracy to supply Class “A” drugs. Issues:- Detailed cross examination of 16 surveillance officers. Disclosure case. R-v- O’Dowd, Woolwich C.C. - junior counsel - rape. Issue:- Instructed for the purpose of cross examination only. R-v- Ali, C.C.C. – junior counsel – rape and false imprisonment. (ii) Junior Counsel Alone. R-v- McGuigan, Snaresbrook C.C. - 3 handed conspiracy to defraud / commit forgery - production of counterfeit / forged immigration documents - voluminous exhibits - cut throat defence by partially sighted co-defendant, alleged by the Crown to have held himself out as an immigration lawyer. R-v- Patel, Isleworth C.C. - 4 handed conspiracy to import / supply Class “A” drugs - actual supply to two undercover officers – Issues:- entrapment and duress, admissibility and relevance of intelligence gathering interview (officers in the witness box for 3 ½ days). Client in witness box, giving evidence in chief for 3 days. Client admitted to being a retired drugs dealer / police informant in Nairobi. Defendant acquitted. NB: given the nature of the case, identifying details altered for the purposes of this document. R-v- Chambers, C.C.C. - attempted murder - Issues - expert evidence relied upon re: sensitive nature of the trigger mechanism of the firearm. Whether mens rea of intent to kill or intent / recklessness as to lesser offences. Case heard at the height of media and government attention upon the use of firearms. R-v- Zaman, Birmingham C.C. - 5 handed conspiracy to commit 6 armed robberies within a 3 hour period. Issues :- Defendant’s D.N.A. discovered on the steering wheel of a car used in the robbery, and in the mouth area of a balaclava found in the same car. Detailed cross examination of experts, with regard to the possibility of the D.N.A. being deposited by secondary transfer. R-v- Phillips, Ipswich C.C. - conspiracy to rob / hijack at knife point, an H.G.V. in transit, and handling of the contents of the H.G.V., namely mobile phones to the value of £3 million. R-v- Lambert, Croydon,C.C. - theft / obtaining property by deception (breach of trust) from the Ministry of defence; Issues :- disclosure, cross examination of ex-colleagues. R-v- Bailey, Maidstone C.C. - death by dangerous driving / theft from the body of the dying complainant / perverting the course of justice. R-v- Lynch, Maidstone C.C. - death by dangerous driving. A joy riding case. R-v- Burahi, Wood Green C.C. – harassment and death threats over a two week period, to staff and member of several North London synagogues. Issue – mental health issues, whether defendant a “danger”. Community disposal. R-v- Simao, Wood Green C.C. – major nation wide D.S.S. fraud – 8 handed. R-v- Charles, Wood Green C.C – major credit card fraud - - 5 handed. |
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