Cases of Interest
Murder / Manslaughter
Warwick has been junior counsel to the Crown in three murder cases:
R v. Budgen and others - Lewes Crown Court, 2007.
R v. Portwine - Lewes Crown Court, 2004.
R v. Johnston and Meenan - Central Criminal Court, 2003.
He was also junior counsel to the Crown in a manslaughter case involving an alleged mercy killing:
R v. Cook - Lewes Crown Court, 2008.
Fraud
Warwick regularly prosecutes frauds on behalf of the Post Office.
R v. Whitehouse and Page - Stafford Crown Court, 2005-6. This was an £11 million conspiracy to defraud involving the setting of artificial rates at a bureau de change. Instructed as junior in the first trial but instructed to prosecute the retrial alone.
R v. Chauhan and others - Leicester Crown Court, 2003. Junior defence counsel in a VAT carousel fraud.
Sexual Offences
Warwick regularly prosecutes and defends in rapes and cases involving other sexual offences. He is very experienced in cases involving special measures:
R v. Bell - Winchester Crown Court, 2008. Successfully represented a teacher accused of a series of indecent assaults on a pupil.
R v. Richardson - Maidstone Crown Court 2006. Successfully defended a man accused of anal rape.
Lawrence - Reading Crown Court, 2005. Successfully cross-examined a complainant who had the assistance of an intermediary.
Public Interest Immunity (PII) / Intrusive Surveillance
Colman and others - Winchester Crown Court, 2001-2. Junior defence counsel in a conspiracy involving a gang of ram-raid burglars. The three-month trial involved a two-week voir dire on the admissibility of material derived from a covert listening device.
Warwick has been involved in a number of cases involving difficult PII issues:
R v. Ebcin and others - Central Criminal Court, 2003.
R v. Down and others - Croydon Crown Court, 2001. Junior counsel for the Crown.
In both cases, the Crown chose to disclose that a defendant was an informant. In Ebcin, one defendant had been a participating informant in the conspiracy that was the subject of the indictment. That trial involved the calling of the informant's NCIS handlers, in order to show that the defendant's actions had gone far beyond what he had been instructed to do.
Money laundering
R v. Sahut and Cirikka - Blackfriars Crown Court, 2009. Successfully defended the alleged launderer of £50,000 of drugs money.
Violence
Warwick has prosecuted and defended in numerous s.18 cases.
R v. Gall - Lewes Crown Court, 2009. Junior counsel for the Crown where the defendant was convicted of a series of violent, stranger attacks on women over a two-year period.
