Cases of Interest
R. v. Goddard - Southwark CC, 2009. Junior defence counsel alone for female music teacher at a London private secondary school accused of conducting an illicit same sex relationship with a 15 year old pupil.
R. v. Hussain - Central Criminal Court, 2010. Leading counsel for defendant extradicted from Iraq in 'honour' killing murder.
R. v. Martin - Hove CC, 2011. Leading counsel for the defendant in gangland conspiracy to murder
R v. Skeete - Woolwich Crown Court. Conspiracy to escape (from the dock at Reading Crown Court during attempted murder trial).
R v. Goodwin - St. Albans Crown Court. Confiscation proceedings arising from breach of enforcement notice by directors associated with Bishops Stortford Football Club - £5 million sought.
R v. Srivinayagem - Central Criminal Court. Leading junior for ring leader of Tamil gang charged with murder of rival in South London.
R v. Lynch - Aylesbury Crown Court. Numerous serious sexual assaults on nursery school infants by male owner/teacher.
R v. Singh - Central Criminal Court. Leading junior in murder by stabbing whilst defendant heavily intoxicated.
R v. Morten - Reading Crown Court. Represented principal assailant in six defendant gang rape.
R v. Wilmot - Inner London Crown Court. £17 million VAT fraud by qualified barrister.
R v. Caudle-Wood - Gloucester Crown Court. Grooming of schoolgirls for sexual intercourse by music teacher.
R v. Somervell - Reading Crown Court. Attempted murder of wife by mentally disturbed elderly man.
R v. Cook - Reading Crown Court. Murder of his mother by mentally disordered man - diminished responsibility.
R v. Sahebzadeh - Cambridge Crown Court. Leading junior for Afghanistani asylum seeker for murder of prostitute.
R v. Abebe - Croydon Crown Court. Extreme sexual and physical cruelty on close teenage relative by defendant (acquitted of principal charges following substantive trial in his absence).
R v. Markovitch - Southwark Crown Court. Fraud through grossly inflated expenses claim by Metropolitan Police interpreter, also a qualified barrister.
R v. Dumbliauskas - Southwark Crown Court. Leading junior for blind defendant, one of six in gang rape.
R v. Coles - Bristol Crown Court. First of two juniors led by Queen's Counsel for defendant originally charged with circa 60 rapes and indecent assaults of different adult complainants.
R v. Hulme - Central Criminal Court. Led junior in last of the IRA bombing campaigns (BBC White City, Ealing and Birmingham).
R v.Gorman - Croydon Crown Court. Severe cruelty and assault against two infant children by father with Asperger's Syndrome.
R v. Foster - Central Criminal Court. Attempted murder of autistic adult son (and attempted suicide) by mother.
Reported Cases
R. v. Kayani and Solliman. The Times. Wednesday January 12th 2012
R v. K [2001] 3 WLR 471, House of Lords
R v. Jackson [2000] Crim LR 377, Court of Appeal
R v. Black [2000] 2 Crim App R section 41, Court of Appeal
R v. JP [1999] Crim LR 401
R v. Nwoga [1997] 2 Crim App R section 1
R v. Wells [1995] 2 Crim App R 417
R v. Jamel [1993] Crim LR 52
Publications
Books
Atkins Court Forms (Butterworths) Chapters on Restrictive Covenants (1976) and Appeals to the Crown Court in Civil Cases (1997/8).
Briefing Counsel: Tolleys 1994, The chapter on Crime.
Confession Evidence: Sweet and Maxwell, Criminal Law Library 1996
Analysing Witness Testimony A Guide for Legal and Other Professionals: Blackstone Press 1999. Foreword by Lord Bingham of Cornhill.
Witness Testimony: Psychological, Investigative and Evidential Perspectives: Oxford University Press 2006. Foreword by Lord Ludge, Lord Chief Justice.
Articles:
On Police Officers’ collaborative evidence
Use of Notebooks in Court by Metropolitan Police Officers: May 1983, Legal Action Group Bulletin.
Police Officers’ Notebooks: 1985 Criminal Law Review 781.
Police Officers’ Notebooks – Recent developments: 1987 Criminal Law Review 169.
Knocking heads together: April 1993 Counsel.
Conferring at The Crossroads: January 2009 Counsel.
Practice Points: Conferring and Collaboration: 15/1/09 Law Society’s Gazette.
Conferring Beyond the Crossroads: 24/09/11, 01/10/11 & 08/10/11 Criminal Law & Justice Weekly
The Codes of Practice to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
What is an ‘Interview’?: 30/10/87 Police Review.
An End to Verbals?: 7/7/89 Police Review.
A Flawed Code: 9, 16, 23/3/90 New Law Journal.
Last fence for the new PACE Codes: September 1990 ‘Counsel’.
Nearly there on the Questioning Code?: 9.16.23, 30/11/90 New Law Journal.
Small steps to win justice: 19/3/91 The Times.
The Questioning Code Revamped: 1991 Criminal Law Review 232.
Cracking the Codes: 12/4/91 Police Review.
A rubber stamp that smacks of torture: 20/12/91 Police Review.
Custodial interrogation and false confession: January 1992 The Criminal Lawyer.
Manipulating suspects under PACE: 29/2. 7/3/92 Justice of the Peace.
Questioning and Identification: Changes under PACE ’95: Criminal Law Review 356.
A New Encroachment on the Right to Silence?: 2/6/03. Archbold News. Issue 5.
Identification evidence
Identification – descriptions of suspects: 1986 Criminal Law Review 215.
Exorcising Dougherty’s Ghost 1991 New Law Journal.
Farewell to Forbes 15/8/03 Archbold News Issue 7.
A reply to “Forbes Alive and Well”: 3/11/03 Archbold News Issue 9.
Ending the farce of staged street identifications: 3/4/04 Archbold News Issue 3.
PACE Code C Review on video ID parades: The innocuous cloaking the insidious: 6/7/07 Archbold News Issue 6.
VIPER disappointments in the PACE review: 5/12/08 Archbold News Issue 10.
VIPER and The Vandalising of PACE: 3 and 10/1/09 Criminal Law and Justice Weekly Vol. 1. 1973.
Recording and disclosing witness statements
Recording witness statements: 1992 Criminal Law Review 160.
The Eyes Have It: 28/2/92 Police Review.
Warts and All: 5/2/93 Police Review.
Disclosing witness statements: 26/2/93 Archbold News.
On the Record: 16/6/93 Law Society’s Gazette.
Recording and Disclosing Statements by Witnesses: Medicine, Science and the Law. Vol. 35. No. 2 April 1995.
A sounder System: 16/4/97 The Independent.
Tape recording witness statements: 6 and 13/6/97 New Law Journal.
Woeful Neglect: 4/5/07 New Law Journal.
Unreliable Evidence: July 2007 Counsel.
Wrongful acquittals – is HMG ‘bovvered’?: February 2008 Counsel.
Convicting the Innocent OK?: 5/7/08 Justice of The Peace Vol. 172.
Taping Witness Statements for Truer Verdicts: 7/2/09 Criminal Law and Justice Weekly Volume 173.
A plea for better JSB model directions on inconsistency: 3/4/09 Archbold News Issue 3.
Audio Recording Witness Statements – No Further Excuses, P-lease!: 5/6/10 Criminal Law and Justice Weekly Volume 174.
Judicial Training
Send the Judges back to Jail: The Times 10/4/90.
Judges should go back to school: 8/1/93 New Law Journal.
Eye-witness testimony and Judicial Studies April 1995 Medicine, Science and the Law Vol. 35 No. 2.
Disclosure
Disclosure under The Criminal Procedure and Investigators Act 1996? 16/7/99 Archbold News Issue 6.
The Disclosure Crisis: The Criminal Bar Association Newsletter September 1999.
The (Un)workability of the Disclosure Provisions of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 – Disaster in the Criminal Law? 1999 94 Medicine, Science and The Law Vol. 39, No. 2.
Time to get it Right: CBA Newsletter March 2000.
Disclosure – is the worm turning, at last? 2000 94 Medicine, Science and the Law Vol. 40, No. 2.
Disclosure: CBA Newsletter June 2000.
Disclosure – Two Steps Forward, More to Come?: CBA Newsletter March 2001.
Disclosure Revisited: CBA Newsletter March 2002.
Rape and Sexual Assault
Debunking rape myths: 25/1/08 New Law Journal.
The Rape myths myth: March 2008 Counsel.
Rape, myths and statistics: May 2008 Counsel.
The truth about rape: forget the myths and look at the statistics: 15/10/09 The Times.
Rape Trials: 24/04/10 Criminal Law and Justice Weekly Volume 174.
Rape – myth and reality and the need for balance: July 2010 Medicine, Science and the Law Volume 50: 111-115.
Jury Trial
New Labour’s attack on trial by jury: 30/10/98 New Law Journal.
The right to jury trial: 11/2/00 New Law Journal.
Star Chamber or a Secret Gang of 12?: 4/7/09 Criminal Law and Justice Weekly Volume 173.
Twelve Good Men and True – and safe: October 2009 Counsel.
Reasonable Doubt: 7/8/10 Criminal Law and Justice Weekly Volume 174.
Miscellaneous
The verdict of the Court – and its Clerk? – Can justice be seen to be done behind closed doors? 31/5 and 7/6/86 Justice of the Peace Volume 150.
An appeal against an ‘over-lenient’ sentence – avoiding the lynch mob: 30/4/88 Justice of The Peace Volume 152.
Cross-examining police officers on their past: 6, 13/9/91 New Law Journal.
Disclosure, Hearsay and Previous Misconduct – Progress in the Criminal Law? 1997 94 Medicine Science and the Law Vol. 38, No. 2.
The Effectiveness of Juries and the Use of the Civil Courts in the Control of Crime – The Emperor’s New Clothes?: 1998 94 Medicine Science and The Law Vol. 38, No. 2.
Detention of psychopaths without trial, goal cell confessions and the case against Michael Stone: 26/2/99 New Law Journal.
Confessors of the (prison) Cloth: 25/5/05 Archbold News Issue 5.
A review of the coroner system in England and Wales: a commentary: September/October 2005 Clinical Medicine Volume 5, No. 5.
Gateway (g): casting imputations and putting in the defendant’s form: 6/3/06 Archbold News Issue 2
Guilty pleas and PSR gaffes: 1/12/06 Archbold News Issue 10.
Outdoor clerking: the impact of LGF on defence trial advocacy: 7/3/08 Archbold News Issue 2.
Expert Witnesses: Jones v Kaney and the Law Commission’s report: Medicine, Science and the Law July 2011
