Furnival Chambers

Serious crime, regulation/compliance.

Priority interests are drugs and confiscation, white-collar fraud and money laundering, and offences of violence. Primarily defence counsel experienced in all areas of criminal law, with an emphasis on violence and large-scale drug conspiracies, including the largest seizure of Class A drugs in Leicester (R v Lumba 2005). He has been led in matters of passport and identity fraud involving immigrant work gangs, MOD corruption and fraud (the much publicised conspiracy to remove and export large quantities of military hardware from ABRO Donnington (R v Lee 2005), prosecuting junior in a multi-million conspiracy to rob, the case being wholly dependent on mobile telephone and cell site analysis (R v Mentore 2004), the Lincoln prison riots (2004), and drugs conspiracies, including the largest wholesale distribution network in South Wales (R v Rees 2003). Laban Leake regularly undertakes court Martial work appearing in the UK, Germany and Cyprus.

Called 1996.