Barristers

Cases of Interest

R. v. Onabanjo. Reported Court of Appeal decision in relation to sentencing guidelines following convictions for offences under sections 2 and 4 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.

R. v. Lyness. Acted for the Crown in the Court of Appeal in an appeal against conviction dealing with the circumstances in which a judge is required to leave the defence of duress to a jury.

R. v. Dr M Jones. Acted for the Crown in the prosecution of a senior member of the 'Trident Ploughshares' nuclear disarmament action group following an attempted raid of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston.

R. v. Leon and Colemenares. First successful prosecution of South American ATM manipulation gang at Southwark Crown Court.

R. v. Nicolov and three others. Successful 2003 prosecution of Operation Twilight, involving 154 witnesses and over 3,000 exhibits at Inner London Crown Court.

R. v. Shamba and eight others. Successful 2005 prosecution of Operation Solution at Southwark Crown Court involving large scale postal theft (£6 million pounds). Subject of a BBC documentary, broadcast in 2006.

R. v. H. Humphries. Defending an allegation of murder at Oxford Crown Court.

R. v. Ayankoya and others (2006). Pprosecution of Operation Ides at Southwark Crown Court. The case involved the hijacking of benefit claims between 1999 and 2004. Three Defendants pleaded guilty and two defendants had a three week trial. Cameron was sole prosecution Ccounsel. There were confiscation proceedings after the trial.

R. v. Kynoch and others. Appeared as sole defence counsel in January 2007 in relation to an allegation of conspiracy to money launder with six others. Defendant pleaded guilty on third day of trial following service of further evidence. The trial was given an eight week time estimate. 7,400 pages of evidence served, including 430 witness statements.

R v. Frost and others. Appeared as junior prosecution counsel for RCPO in a trial from April June 2007 in relation to the importation of 12 million counterfeit cigarettes. Conducted re-trial alone of one defendant.

R v. Arthur and Odurah. Prosecution counsel in 2008 case involving large-scale money laundering following £3 million pound benefit fraud.

R v. Michael Elliot. Appeared as defence counsel at Southwark Crown Court in case involving significant breaches of CITES legislation (commercial importation and exportation of hippo, elephant and whale ivory).

R v. Lorraine Mathews. Successfully represented defendant accused of fraudulent trading. Defendant alleged to have been involved in large- scale fraud involving assistance aid products for the elderly and disabled.

R v. Eccles and Leece. Prosecution junior in prosecution of case involving importation of heroin and cocaine, with a value in the region of £1.5 million pounds.

R v. Abdulsalam, Olawore and Habeeb-Oluwa. Prosecution counsel in cases concerning numerous money laundering offences following a multi- million pound benefit fraud, all of which resulted in substantial sentences of imprisonment and confiscation orders.

R v. Guan, Chen, Weng and Xje. Prosecution counsel in successful prosecution of four individuals involved in commercial importation of cigarettes, with over 15 million cigarettes and 2.5 tonnes of tobacco imported. R v. David Lee. Convictions secured on behalf of BIS in relation to trading under a prohibited name and fraudulently failing to disclose the removal of assets from a company. Confiscation order made in the amount of £160,000.

R v. David Liddicott. Convictions secured on behalf of BIS in relation to fraudulent disposal of property following a bankruptcy order, falsification of a document relating to his affairs and concealing debts following a bankrupttpcy order.

HMRC v. Amar. £15.8 million judgment secured in the High Court against former director of Mediagrade Limited, a company involved in large-scale MTIC/ VAT fraud.

R v. Hugh Lucie Smith. Successful prosecution involving a two-and-a-half week trial of a shadow director who managed three companies, including one with a prohibited company name, where losses of in excess of £2 million were made and where the shadow director was prohibited from being concerned in the formation, promotion and management of any company.