High Profile Cases

R -v- Williams - the murder of PC Dave Phillips

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35754960

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/trial-wirral-teenager-accused-pc-11004616

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/clayton-williams-cleared-trying-run-11063280

R -v- Rose - the blackmail case involving Tamara Ecclestone (daughter of Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One Head)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280512/Tamara-Ecclestones-ex-Derek-Rose-threatened-reveal-intimate-secrets-didnt-hand-200k.html

R -v- AW & Others - the murder trial involving Dale Cregan who shot the two PC's in Manchester in 2012 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21321496

R (ex p.DR) v Luton Crown Court [2012] EWCH 1064 (Admin); [2012] 1 WLR 2777; [2012] 4 All ER 1238; [2012 Crim LR 703  - the leading authority in Custody Time Limit cases

http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1064.html&query=raeside&method=boolean

Operation Forbear - £385 million pound multiple MTIC Operations and Trials

R -v- Contostavlos & Others - the 'Dappy' (N-Dubz) affray case

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dappy-trial-n-dubz-star-given-1711611 

'The Cardiff 3' - the high profile alleged police corruption case.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-15981541

R v Barri White - successful defence of the man wrongly convicted of the murder of his girlfriend as brought to light initially by the BBC programme 'Rough Justice'. His conviction was quashed in the Court of Appeal where chambers were first instructed and the defendant was subsequently acquitted at the re-trial. Another man was convicted of the murder in September 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-23968896

R -v- Donnison - The much publicised case of the Sussex mother who killed her 2 young children

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18159890

R -v- Ordinwale & Others - Victoria station murder  of a schoolboy which occurred during a rival school fight in and around the station.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12280889

R -v- Kassaye and Others - The £40 million Graff jewellery heist

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jul/06/graff-jewel-thieves-guilty

R -v- Chowdhury and Others - country's largest copyright fraud

R -v- Driza - blackmail of a Judge

R -v- Holt and Others - DVLA conspiracy to defraud

R -v- Hussain - 5 month election fraud

R -v- Kirby - conspiracy to supply £80 million of cocaine

R -v- Lynch - conspiracy to supply £11 million of drugs

R -v- Manning - The murder of eight-year-old Victoria Climbie which led to major changes in child protection policies in the UK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Victoria_Climbi%C3%A9 

R -v- Napper - The infamous murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rachel_Nickell

R -v- Oldfield - the headless corpse 'Blue Lagoon' murder

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8588274.stm

Re: Patel - mother using false address for school placement (test case)

Re: Selman - Coldstream Guards Iraq war courts martial

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5053006.stm

Our barristers are no strangers to difficult and challenging cases and our criminal law expertise has seen our counsel appear in many high profile Crown Court cases including the Victoria Climbie trial, the murder of Rachel Nickell, the £40 million Graff jewellery heist and 'The Cardiff 3' to name but a few.