No5 Barristers' Chambers

Criminal law.

Practises exclusively in crime, focuses on complex drug-related offences, sexual offence such as rape and abuse of children, serious offences of violence, fraud conduct and management of very high-cost cases. Notable cases include: instructed 2nd junior counsel for the defence in a complex multi-million pound investment fraud, to be tried September 2009; R v W &P [2008] – defence junior counsel in a manslaughter involving children defendants; R v Austin and others [2008] – defence junior counsel in a contract murder at the Old Bailey, which raised media coverage for being the first case where a jury were discharged following the House of Lords ruling against the use of anonymous witness testimony; R V Toye [2008] – defence counsel involving multi-counts of blackmail offences; R v Booth and others [2007] – defence junior counsel in a multi-handed drug conspiracy; R V Younis and others [2007] – defence junior counsel involving a large-scale ‘test purchase’ operation in the North East of England; R v Warde [2005] – defence junior counsel in a £21m drug conspiracy, which involved international criminal network; R v Grebby and others [2005] – defence counsel in a multi-handed £1.5m cigarette duty evasion; R v Bannister and others [2003] – defence counsel in a multi-handed drug conspiracy; R v Wilson [2003] – defence counsel in a multi-handed kidnapping and rape; R v F & S [1999], represented both juvenile appellants at the Court of Appeal before the Lord Chief Justice on a point of law involving the detention of young offenders, reported in Archbold 1999 edition.

Called 1996.

Sheffield University (LLB Hons 2(1)).