Jack Talbot

Recommendations

Jack has a fluid, relaxed and open manner of delivery which judges trust and juries like. With specific respect to fraud, his knowledge of the law, practice and current procedure is unparalleled. He is dedicated to the facts of his clients’ cases and how any weaknesses in the opposing case can be exploited.

― Legal 500 (2024)

Jack is a conscientious prosecutor who is always on top of his brief. He is fearless but courteous, and persuasive to a jury. He always approaches prosecuting with the utmost fairness.

― Legal 500 (2024)

From 2016 to 2023 Jack has been ranked in Legal 500 as a leading junior in Fraud - Crime (including money laundering/asset forfeiture)

Jack has an easy manner with a jury, and presents dense evidence comprehensibly and with a deceptively light touch. He is extremely hard-working, and handles emotive and difficult cases with professionalism and ease.

― Legal 500 (2023)

Jack brings very good attention to detail and can put even the most seasoned client at ease with his understanding of the case and the law and his delivery in court.

― Legal 500 (2023)

...first class in client presentation.

― Legal 500 UK (2022)

...hard working junior who is great with clients’ and appears in ‘challenging cases’.

― Legal 500 UK (2020)

A member of the CPS and SFO panels, he defends too.

― Legal 500 UK (2017)

He appears on both sides of a fraud trial.

― Legal 500 (2016)

Serious Violence

Jack is both a go-to defender and highly sought-after prosecutor in the gravest Serious Violence cases.

He is CPS Panel Advocate (Grade 4, highest grade) for both serious crime and general crime.

Jack has a reputation for handling complex and document-heavy trials with considerable tactical acumen and deploys a sensitive approach to vulnerable witnesses and defendants alike. He has developed expertise in the cross-examination of experts and combines thorough case preparation with natural court flair to achieve the best outcome for his clients.

Featured cases

Defending:

• R v Henry-Richards (2023-2024) – 13-week murder trial at Old Bailey representing highly successful drill artist (led Jnr). Five-defendant conspiracy to murder one individual and joint enterprise murder or another together with a conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life. Jack cross-examined a key expert witness for the Crown. [Press Report] [Press Report].
• R v X (2022) – Transfer of loaded sub-machine gun. Sentence of 16 years’ imprisonment.
• R v N (2021-2022) – Stabbing on a university campus.
• R v A (2020) – Attempted murder. (Jnr alone) [Press Report]
• R v K (2018) – Acted for the lead defendant in a multi-handed machete attack.
• R v K ‘2’ (Operation Trident) (2018) – A young man caught with a loaded revolver.
• R v D (2018) – A six-handed conspiracy to burgle numerous school premises. [Press Report]
• R v N (2018) – Represented a teenager in two separate serious stabbing cases.
• R v I (2018) – An arsonist who set fire to someone’s front door.
• R v B (2016) – A well-publicised case involving serious violence between Arsenal and West Ham fans.
• R v J (2015) – Secured the acquittal of an accused in a gun-point robbery.
• R v S (2015) – A complex firearms and stalking case.
• R v T (2015) – An aggravated arson case in which a s41 Restriction Order was made.
• R v Tobin (2015) – Burglary of Fabergé items from Christies in Mayfair. [Press Report]
• R v R (2013) – Secured an acquittal in a ‘home invasion robbery’ where the judge indicated a sentence of 16 years would have been appropriate upon conviction.
• R v T (2012) – A 15-year-old involved in a three-handed series of machete-point robberies and stabbings.
• R v Sellitto (2011) – Instructed to represent the lead defendant where a police officer was robbed at gun-point.
• R v Barker (2011) – A widely publicised stabbing case. An IPP was imposed.
• R v C (2011) – Instructed to represent a defendant involved in the Bristol ‘anti-Tesco’ riots.
• R v P (2011) – Secured the acquittal of teenage girl charged with causing GBH with intent.
• R v L (2011) – Secured the acquittal at trial of a 14-year-old boy involved in a car crash, in which a young passenger was killed.
• R v R (2007) – Instructed to defend a man in possession of a firearm with intent.

Prosecuting:

• R v X & Ors (Operation Austin) (2022) – Leading junior for Crown in nine defendant prison disorder prosecution split into three trials.
• R v K (2021-2022) – Hit-and-run, where the victim suffered life-changing injuries.
• R v A (2021) – Multiple separate life-threatening stabbing cases committed by defendants charged with attempted murder.
• R v P-F (2012) – The successful prosecution of man for a ‘penalty-style’ kick to a taxi-driver’s head.
• R v N (Operation Withern) (2012) – The conviction of a defendant involved in the 2011 London riots.
• R v Iron (2012) – The well-publicised case of a pub chef convicted of poisoning food and children with MDMA. [Press Report]
• R v S (2011) – A defendant convicted at trial of the very serious group stabbing of a sixteen-year-old-boy. Nine years’ imprisonment was imposed.

Serious & Organised Crime

Jack is regularly instructed to both defend and prosecute in multi-handed jury trials concerning OCGs and serious organised crime involving EncroChat, firearms offences, gang violence and large-scale drug and cigarette importations.

He has developed considerable skill in the dissection of complex telephonic, forensic and tachograph evidence as well as the imposition of serious crime prevention orders.

Jack is a CPS Panel Advocate (Grade 4, highest grade) for serious crime.

Featured cases

Defending:

• R v X (Operation Kedgeree) (2024-2025) – Leading junior – conspiracy to steal millions of pounds worth of goods.
• R v F (Operation Eider) (2022-2024) – Ten-handed EncroChat drugs supply case.
• R v B (Operation Tokamak) (2020-2024) – A highly sophisticated importation of 300kg of cocaine involving EncroChat communications. Co-defending with a Silk.
• R v S (Operation Frizington) (2023-2024) – Defended alleged ‘kingpin’ of cocaine supply business. Over 21 years’ imprisonment imposed.
• R v S (2021) – A firearms trial acquittal involving identification through a DNA ‘hit’.
• R v G (2019) – Instructed to represent a man acquitted, after a four-week trial, of a six-handed conspiracy to commit armed robbery at betting shops across London.
• R v D (2015) – Secured an acquittal in a large-scale brothel-keeping case. (Led jnr)
• R v G (Operation Sparky) (2016) – A two-year case involving firearms, drugs and money laundering offences. The sentence of ten years, five months’ imprisonment, after pleading guilty, was successfully reduced on appeal.
• R v G (2014) – A ‘county lines’ kidnap and conspiracy to rob.
• R v A (Operation Oriole) (2014) – Instructed to represent the first defendant in a 16-handed, nine-week trial concerning a conspiracy to supply multiple kilos of cocaine. (Led jnr)
• R v M (Operation Burleigh) (2012) – Secured acquittal of the first defendant at half-time in a seven-handed conspiracy to produce and sell over a million pounds’ worth of counterfeit clothing. (Led jnr)
• R v A (Operation Trident) (2012) – Represented a teenage boy, during two jury trials, for possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.

Prosecuting:

• R v P & P (Operation Fulcrum) (2023-2024) – Large-scale smuggling of tonnes of tobacco.
• R v H (Operation Antacid) (2021-2022) – Complex cigarette importation and modern slavery and duress defences which were rejected by the jury.
• R v B & R (2021-2022) – Prosecuted a London-wide drugs supply and money laundering operation.
• R v B (Operation Aubrey) (2021) – A long-running, sophisticated cigarette smuggling case.
• R v N (2019) – Cigarette importation. Secured a conviction.
• R v B (2015) – False imprisonment and firearms case.
• R v J (2013) – Over two trials at the Old Bailey, successfully prosecuted a man for possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
• R v A (2012) and R v A (2012) – Two separate cases of possession of firearms.

Sexual Offences

Jack frequently prosecutes and defends in cases involving the most serious Sexual Offences including multi-complainant rapes and those involving very young children. He has also undertaken numerous trials involving ‘historical’ allegations of familial rape, indecency and buggery.

Jack is CPS RASSO Panel Advocate and has received specialist training in the handling of vulnerable witnesses and the deployment of pre-recorded cross-examination at trial.

Featured cases

Defending:

• R v Carrier (2023) – Successfully defended female piano teacher accused of serious historic sexual offences with a former pupil. Widespread media attention. [Press Report] [Press Report]
• R v X (2022) – Defended a historic allegation involving a five-year-old complainant. s.28 case but defendant died before trial.
• R v X (2022) – Familial sex offence trial where the defendant was already serving a 29-year sentence.
• R v D (2018) – Instructed to defend in a serious ‘stranger’ sex attack.
• R v G (2017) – Instructed to represent a man who seriously sexually assaulted a girl in a public toilet.
• R v H (2017) – Acted for a recidivist paedophile using false identities.
• R v D (2016) – Instructed to defend a man accused of the rape of a young child.
• R v W (2015) – Trial counsel for the defendant in a multi-handed, historic familial sexual abuse case. The lead defendant received 18 years’ imprisonment.
• R v S (2015) – A councillor who faced allegations of historic sexual abuse over many years. Six of the eight counts were dismissed at half-time.
• R v M (2015) – A serious grooming case involving multiple young victims.
• R v G (2015) – Secured the acquittal of a defendant charged with assault by penetration of a complainant with Cerebral Palsy.
• R v S (2015) – Instructed for a defendant acquitted after trial for the sexual assault of a child.
• R v N (2015) – A very serious sexual attack on a lone female at night whilst the defendant was suffering a psychotic episode.
• R v O (2014) – A recidivist indecent images case.
• R v E (2013) – Secured the acquittal of a young man indicted with sexual assault.

Prosecuting:

• R v Hoad (2023) – Conviction secured at trial concerning rapes of girl between ages of 12 and 16. Defendant sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment. [Press Report]
• R v A (2023) – Convicted at trial of child sex offences against two children under 8. s.28 case.
• R v B (2021-2022) – Secured a conviction for multi generation sex offences. This was a s28 case.
• R v A (2022) – trial of man accused of a series of violent sexual acts.
• R v X (2021) – A series of rapes of a very young child in the 1960s.
• R v H (2021) – The trial of rapes alleged to have occurred whilst GBH level injuries also inflicted.
• R v M (Operation Malawi) (2021) – The successful prosecution at trial of ‘stranger’ rape case. Falklands veteran. [Press Report]
• R v C (2021) – A trial of multi-complainant child rape allegations.
• R v W (2021) – Attempting to take indecent photographs of a six-year-old.
• R v Boteler (2020-2021) – A secured conviction of a dangerous offender under surveillance who attempted a sexual attack on a lone female. [Press Report]
• R v B (2020) – A campaign of causing girls to watch various sexual acts and exposure.
• R v H (2020) – The trial of a man alleged to have raped fourteen-year-old relative.
• R v King (2019) – Secured the conviction of a defendant after the trial of multiple historic sexual offences, involving four complainants between the early 1960s and 1980s. Over 12 years’ imprisonment was imposed. [Press Report]
• R v Jones (2018) – Instructed to prosecute an elderly defendant of the rape of girl under the age of ten, in the 1970s. Ten years’ imprisonment was imposed. [Press Report]
• R v Butterworth (2018) – Instructed to prosecute a defendant who received 14 years’ imprisonment, having pleaded guilty to perpetrating ten years of sexual abuse, including buggery. [Press Report]

Business Crime & Fraud

Jack has developed considerable expertise in fraud, corruption and business crime. He has been listed as a leading junior in fraud in the Legal 500 directory since 2016 and was appointed to the SFO Panel of Advocates at Grades C then B, between 2009-2020.

Jack is a CPS Fraud Panel Advocate (Grade 4, highest grade) and is regularly instructed by the CPS’ Serious Economic Organised Crime and International Directorate (SEOCID) in high-profile and challenging cases.

He both defends and prosecutes cases involving corporate defendants and has provided expert advice concerning bribery and corruption charges in the public sector.

Featured cases

Defending:

• R v Elsom and Ors (2021) – Three-week trial defending the lead defendant in a complex input tax VAT Fraud. [Press Report]
• R v G (2020) – SFD prosecution of a huge counterfeit clothing factory trademarks case.
• R v H (Operation Kafka) (2020) – SFD prosecution of the surveillance-led discovery of a storage unit full of illegal medicines and contraband goods.
• R v Mawji (2019) – A well-publicised fraud case. Press Report
• Environment Agency v M & Ors (2017) – Fraud and environmental offences described by the Environment Agency as the first of its kind. The case involved the operation of reportedly the UK’s largest glass recycling facility in South Yorkshire, and the alleged abuse of the producer responsibility scheme for major packaging waste producers. An acquittal was secured. The defendants pleaded guilty to minor regulatory environmental offences. (Led jnr)
• R v Peter Childs (Operation Borah) (2014) – High-profile fraud of Lincoln District Mencap. (Led jnr) [Press Report]
• R v Razzaq (Operation Foxhole) (2011) – Acted for the first defendant in large-scale long-firm fraud after company accounts were falsified. [Press Report]

Prosecuting:

• R v X & Ors (2022-2025) – Instructed by SEOCID as Leading Junior to prosecute sixteen defendant multi-million-pound mortgage fraud case split over three trials.
• R v X & Ors (2023-2024) Leading Junior –SEOCID-prosecuted, two-handed multi-million-pound money laundering case.
• R v Raj Nasta and Kazemi (Operation Gleaston) (2022-2024) – SEOCID-prosecution of three-handed multi-million pound fine art fraud – jury convicted Kazemi and Nasta pleaded guilty.
• R v Ghedia (Operation Skittle) (2021-2022) – Instructed to prosecute a significant high-value double fraud involving a leading bank’s employee. See the Discovery Channel’s ‘The Big Swindle’ documentary. [Press Report] [Press Report] [Press Report] [Press Report]
• R v H (Operation Antacid) (2021-2022) – Successful prosecution of complex HMRC postal cigarette smuggling case.
• R v Bhajun and others (2017-2021) – Acted as both led junior and leading junior in three separate trials leading to the conviction of thirteen individuals who conspired to defraud the Civil Aviation Authority. [Press Report] [Press Report]
• R v P (Operation Vladimir) (2021) – SFD-prosecuted money laundering.
• R v J (2019/20) – SFD-prosecuted fraud on the NHS and multiple universities.
• R v O (2019/20) – A complex three-handed Royal Mail Fraud.
• R v McClune (2019) – Secured the conviction, in a two-month-long trial, of a carer who defrauded elderly victims. [Press Report]
• R v Eastwood and others (Operation Finback) (2019) – Conspiracy to commit fraud by undertaking unnecessary building work at the homes of vulnerable, elderly victims. [Press Report]
• R v Ali and others (2019) – A five-week trial prosecuting on behalf of Trading Standards, three individuals in a highly-publicised case of fraudulent trading by the London estate agents Crestons (Led jnr). [Press Report] Jack undertook the appellate proceedings alone which attracted national attention. [Judgment]
• R v A (2018) – Secured a conviction in this income tax fraud. Instructed by SFD.
• R v A (2018) – A three-defendant ‘courier’ fraud.
• R v S & W (2017) – Secured a money laundering conviction. Junior alone instructed by SFD against a leading KC.
• R v S & L (2017) – Bedfordshire Fire Service procurement fraud convictions.
• R v Bradshaw and Bradshaw (Operation Jerez) (2015) – High value VAT fraud relating to chauffeuring services in the film industry. [Press Report]
• R v A-G (2014) – Junior alone for the SFD on this multi-jurisdiction benefit fraud.

Independent/disclosure counsel:

• Jack has undertaken numerous Legal Professional Privilege (‘LPP’) and disclosure exercises in high profile SFO investigations into:
  • Balli Group (fraudulent trading)
  • JJB sports (alleged fraud and money laundering)
  • Swift Group (alleged corruption)
  • Securency (alleged corruption)
  • Tresaderns (alleged multi-million-pound boiler room fraud).
• In Mills and Ors (Operation Hornet) (2013) – Instructed as independent LPP counsel by the South Eastern Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) to attend the execution of multiple search warrants at a number of private properties for the purpose of assessing and preserving assets for eventual confiscation proceedings. The defendants were tried and convicted in a very well-publicised corruption and money laundering prosecution relating to HBOS. [Press Report]

Proceeds of Crime and Confiscation

Jack is a CPS Panel Advocate (Grade 4, highest grade) for POCA work. He is one of only fourteen SFO POCA Panel A advocates.

He has been listed as a leading junior in asset forfeiture in the Legal 500 since 2016 and regularly defends in large-scale fraud, drugs and money laundering cases involving a POCA dimension. Jack prides himself on distilling complex legal principles when advising clients and making oral and written arguments on their behalf.

Jack is instructed by a plethora of prosecution authorities in this sphere and frequently trains other lawyers on Restraint, Civil Recovery & Confiscation.

Featured cases

Defending:

• R v Freeman (2024) – confiscation proceedings in multi-million-pound EncroChat case. [Press Report]
• R v Burr (2024) confiscation proceedings in multi-million-pound EncroChat case.
• HMRC v H (2023) – Successful opposition to cash forfeiture proceedings.
• R v K and Ors (2022) – Represented the leader of an Albanian OCG. Successful resistance of a s22 POCA application. [Press Report]
• R v H (2020) – Instructed to represent a repeat offender in a SFD-prosecuted medicines fraud with multiple confiscation proceedings.
• R v Koort, Rosen and Russell (2019) – Instructed to represent a female defendant in three-handed confiscation proceedings that were due to last for six days in a diamond fraud case. [Press Report]
• R v May and others (2008) UKHL 28 – Instructed as a key researcher for Mr May’s defence team in this seminal case in confiscation law. [Judgment]

Prosecuting:

• R v Ravjani and Ors (Operation Inertia) (2013-2022) – Previously led by J Kinnear KC in confiscation proceedings but acted as lone junior in all confiscation proceedings for a decade.
  • One of the largest ever confiscation orders pursued by CPS’s Proceeds of Crime Unit. The criminal case involved four separate sets of defendants. The lead conspirator, Ravjani, was sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for a £176 million MTIC fraud involving the purported sale of 4 million mobile phones. The case involved funds being traced across many jurisdictions through complex trust and banking structures.
  • The original POCA ‘benefit’ figure was just under £2 billion, with a loss to the Revenue of over £100 million. Confiscation orders were made totalling over £35 million against the first four defendants alone.
  • Jack has appeared alone against a number of leading silks and juniors and secured the appointment of an Enforcement Receiver in Ravjani’s case. There are currently ongoing s23 POCA proceedings. [Press Report]
• R v Ghedia (Operation Skittle) (2023) – Represented Crown in Commercial Court (High Court) civil proceedings relating to a propriety claim made by a defrauded insurance company. Advised as to interim civil remedies. See the Discovery Channel’s ‘The Big Swindle’ documentary. [Press Report] [Press Report] [Press Report] [Press Report]
• R v Green (2023) – successful application for s.22 POCA uplift at Southwark Crown Court
• R v Kheraf (Operation Funky) (2021-2022) – Account Freezing Order and Forfeiture proceedings. [Press Report]
• R v A, S and O (2020) – Complex Royal Mail fraud confiscation.
• R v C and others (2018) – Third party interest case pursuant to s10A POCA.
• R v B (2017) – Successful application for ex parte restraint order.
• R v R & R (2017) – Successful on notice application for two restraint orders for local authority. Against a KC. (Jnr alone)
• R v I (2015) – Revisiting realisable amount in High Court proceedings.
• R v G (2015) – s22 POCA application.
• R v V (2014) – Enforcement proceedings and s23 POCA application.
• Operation Quarterdeck (2012) – A long-running restraint and contempt proceedings in a tax evasion case. (Led jnr)
• Operation Cruse (2008) – Disclosure counsel in £7.28m VAT fraud. RCPO pursued one of the biggest confiscation orders ever sought in this jurisdiction. (Led jnr)
• Operation Devout (2007) – Amongst other cases at RCPO, Jack was the lawyer responsible for restraint proceedings in the case of A and A. This case went on to become a key case in the development of confiscation law in 2014 in the Supreme Court case of Ahmad and Fields..

Regulatory & Professional Disciplinary

Jack was a LBLA Panel B Advocate (Highest Grade for a non-KC) before moving to Red Lion Chambers and has been called upon by numerous local authorities to prosecute a broad range of Fraud cases, trademark and planning breaches and the full gamut of regulatory offending.

He is invited to give lectures on topics as wide-ranging as RIPA and confiscation to organisations such as the Local Authority Training Consortium of Welsh lawyers, LBs Lambeth and Southwark and the LGG Prosecution Group. He has trained numerous local authority lawyers concerning jury trial preparations post-Covid19 and recently addressed the national flagship trading standards conference (CTSI) on new trademarks sentencing guidelines.

Featured cases

• Wokingham BC v C & C (2020-2022) – Instructed to prosecute multiple allegations of fraud and breach of consumer protection regulations.
• Wokingham BC v G (2022) – Aggressive practices/frauds on homeowners.
• RB Kingston v SK Technology Ltd and S (2021) – Successful Crown Court prosecution for selling fake Apple products.
• Thurrock BC v C and others (2021) – Obtained Thurrock Borough Council’s first ever interim injunction securing compliance with a Housing Act Prohibition Order in the High Court.
• LB Barking & Dagenham v O (2020) – Successful prosecution of a solicitor for breaches of the Housing Act.
• BFBC v Tesco (2020) – Prosecution of Tesco for health and safety breaches.
• In the matter of XX (2019) – Advised a local authority extensively on bribery and corruption allegations concerning procurement fraud.
• LB Islington v Ali and Others (2019) – Court of Appeal proceedings. This case attracted national media coverage. [Judgment]
• Oxford County Council v Mohammed (2019) – Trading Standards prosecution for selling fake cigarettes. [Press Report]
• LB Hillingdon v K (2019) – Criminal and confiscation proceedings in large planning enforcement notice breach case.
• LB Hillingdon v C (2019) – Secured Crown Court guilty pleas to multiple food safety regulatory breaches.
• LB Islington v M and others (2018) – Successfully prosecuted this six-week fraudulent trading case. (Led jnr) [Press Report]
• LB Hillingdon v S (2018) – Secured a conviction by the jury in this ‘Right to Buy’ fraud.
• LB Newham v Q (2017/18) – A complex benefit fraud case.
• Environment Agency v D (2017) – Crown Court trial of multi-handed pollution offences.
• LB Southwark v A (2017) – Crown Court food safety breaches case.
• LB Southwark v A-B and Ors (2017) – A multi-handed confiscation proceedings in housing fraud case.
• LB Southwark v G (2017) – Secured conviction prosecuting LB Southwark’s first ever Social Housing Fraud Act case.
• LB Southwark v Zara Hair (2017) – A novel prosecution under the 2013 Cosmetics Regulations.
• LB Newham v A and others (2017) – A highly complex planning enforcement breach case.
  Dacorum BC v B (2013) – The successful prosecution of a slum landlady of an HMO under the Housing Act.
• LB Ealing (2012) – PII exercise conducted on behalf of the local authority in a rape case.
• LB Islington v C (2010) – Numerous trademarks offences relating to fake clothing and goods. Jury convicted.
• LB Hillingdon (2010) – A lengthy LPP exercise as independent counsel.
• R v Naris [2008] EWCA Crim 1307 – A successful appeal against sentence reduced by a third in relation to regulatory offences involving Food Safety legislation, Trademarks and Prohibition Orders.
  Focus (DIY) Ltd v LB Hillingdon [2008] EWHC 1152. – High Court false trade descriptions case. (Led junior)

Appeals

Jack is regularly called upon to appear before the Court of Appeal and High Court. He has developed a highly skilled approach to appellate advocacy and is equally adept at advising clients and prosecuting agencies in writing as to the merits of an appeal.

Featured cases

• R v X (2023) – Acted for Respondent in appeal against conviction in rape case.
• R v Ramsay (2023) – Appeal against firearms 16-year sentence.
• R v B (2021) – Acted for the respondent, considering the legality of SHPO conditions. Unusually required to attend, due to the importance of the case.
• R v A and Ors (2019) – Acted for the respondent in this high-profile three-handed fraudulent trading case. [Judgement]
• R v A (2019) – Appeal against a sentence in fraud, where the defendant received nine years’ imprisonment.
• R v L (2017) – Appeal against a sentence before the full court.
• R v G (2016) – A successful appeal against a sentence of ten years, five months reduced to eight years 11 months imprisonment. Firearms and drugs.
• R v Futcher [2015] EWCA Crim 243 – A successful appeal against sentence for thefts.
• R v Afzal [2014] EWCA Crim 2591 – An appeal against conviction and sentence. Conspiracy to supply drugs.
• R v Mohammed Tariq Razzaq [2012] EWCA Crim 1780 – A long firm fraud sentence appeal.
• R v A (2012) – An appeal against a sentence in a serious firearms, with intent to endanger life, case.
• R v E (2012) – A renewed appeal against a sentence in a drugs supply case.
• R v Lloyd Green [2011] EWCA Crim 278 – A successful appeal against sentence in a ‘third-strike’ burglary case.
• R v Hodge [2009] EWCA Crim 815 – A successful appeal against arson sentence, which was halved.
• R v Naris [2008] EWCA Crim 1307 – A successful appeal against sentence reduced by a third in relation to regulatory offences involving Food Safety legislation, Trademarks and Prohibition Orders.
• Focus (DIY) Ltd v LB Hillingdon [2008] EWHC 1152. – LB Hillingdon in a High Court false trade descriptions case. (Led jnr) [Judgement]
• R v Thuy Thi Pham [2007] EWCA Crim 1451 – The successful appeal against sentence in cultivation of cannabis case.
• R (on the application of the CPS) v Bow Street Magistrates’ Court & Samuel James and Others) [2006] All ER 1342 – A test case concerning the Identity Cards Act 2006. Cases nationwide awaited the outcome of this decision in the High Court. (Led jnr)

Education

• BVC, BPP Law School
• PgDL, BPP Law School
• BA (Hons) Ancient History, Bristol University: 1st Class

Awards

• University Scholar
• Arnaldo Momigliano Prize for Classics and
  Ancient History at University of Bristol
• Diplock Scholar, Middle Temple

Professional appointments

• SFO POCA Advocate (Panel A, highest grade)
• CPS Specialist Panel Advocate (Serious Crime, POCA and Fraud Panels) (Grade 4, highest grade)
• CPS Panel Advocate (RASSO) (Grade 4, highest grade)
• CPS Panel Advocate (General Crime) (Grade 4, highest grade)
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Panel Advocate (Panel B). Encompasses EA, CQC, rail and nuclear industry regulators
• Previously London Boroughs’ Legal Alliance Panel Advocate (Panel B, highest grade). Able to prosecute for approximately 28 local authorities and London Fire Service
• Pupil Supervisor

Memberships

• Middle Temple (mentor)
• PPA
• FLA
• POCLA
• CBA
• South Eastern Circuit

Languages

• French (conversational)

Other expertise

• Business Crime & Fraud
• Crime

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