Defence Crime

Nottingham  Trent University LLB (Hons)

Inns of Court School of Law, London

8 King's Bench Walk, London

Broadway House Chambers, Bradford

All areas of Criminal Law

Called to the Bar 1996

Criminal Bar Association

North Eastern Circuit

R v A [2013] -  Represented a male nurse acquitted of sexually assaulting male and female patients.

R v H [2011] - Represented the religious teacher who was prosecuted for assault after being secretly filmed by the makers of the Channel 4's Dispatches programme "lessons in hate and violence". 

R v S [2011] EWCA Crim. 2193 - Represented a 15 year old who had been sentenced to detention for public prosecution for a series of knifepoint robberies. Successfully appealed and this sentence was quashed and replaced with a determinate sentence. 

R-v-D [2011]  - Junior Counsel alone represented a practising solicitor acquitted of wounding with intent and false imprisonment

R v Ilyas Khan [2010] - Junior Counsel alone represented a Defendant acquitted of causing grievous bodily harm to a "solicitor"

R v Parvais Hussain [2009] - Junior Counsel alone represented a registered blind man acquitted of causing death by dangerous driving

R v D [2009] - Led by Michael Harrison QC. Represented a youth acquitted of murder and attempted murder

R v Johnny Daniels [2009] - Led by Queens Counsel. Represented a Defendant acquitted of murder in a case involving the kidnap, torture and murder of a businessman

R v Uzma Khan [2009] 1 Cr. App. R. 28 - Led by Michael Harrison QC in a case involving the first prosecution in West Yorkshire for the offence of "causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult"

R v Dean Swan [2008] - Junior Counsel alone represented a Defendant acquitted of manslaughter

R v A [2008] EWCA Crim 2193 - Led by Abbas Lakha QC. Represented a 15 year old Defendant who was the first person to be convicted of inciting manslaughter, where the kiling has been recorded on a mobile phone in a "happy slapping" incident