NEWS Henrietta Paget KC and Paul Sharkey are prosecuting the trial at the Central Criminal Court of a man alleged to have killed a vulnerable young woman on a night out. Zahwa Mukhtar was deaf and training to be an accountant. During a night [...]
NEWS The trial of two men alleged to have killed a four year old child has been opened at Maidstone Crown Court. Following an apparent family feud, Owen Maughan and his father Patrick Maughan are said to have deliberately rammed their car at speed [...]
NEWS David Harounoff and Rose Slowe instructed by the Crown Prosecution have opened the case against 8 defendants charged with other co-conspirators at Isleworth Crown Court with the importation of approximately 100 kilos of Cocaine from Jamaica to the UK in a trial estimated [...]
NEWS On 22 August 2023, officers of the Metropolitan Police executed a search warrant at the home address of XY. After arresting the defendant, officers searching his home address seized high value jewellery, a large amount of cash and a large number of digital [...]
NEWS Richard Jory KC and Bibi Ihuomah are representing Jala Debella at a trial of the facts at the Central Criminal Court on an Indictment alleging murder and possession of an offensive weapon. The case concerns the unprovoked attack on Anita Mukhey in Colindale, [...]
NEWS In R v XY and AB, Benjamin Waidhofer was instructed by Fadi Daoud at Lawrence & Co CDS LLP to defend two individuals charged with racially aggravated offending. The prosecution case was that two individuals of pensionable age had committed the following offences: [...]
NEWS Kwame Sekyere, instructed by Simon Bethel Solicitors, represented CJ who was on trial for two counts of encouraging self harm under s184 of the Online Safety Act 2023. In the first jury trial involving this offence, Mr Sekyere made a number of successful [...]
NEWS Henrietta Paget KC and Rebecca Foulkes prosecuted Joshua Michals for the murder of Zhe Wang following a trial at the Central Criminal Court which concluded yesterday with a unanimous verdict of guilty. Ms Wang was a Chinese national, aged 31 at the time [...]
NEWS Richard was selected by the Inns of Court College of Advocacy to travel to Hong Kong to join a team of international trainers in teaching advocacy to pupils as part of their formal legal qualifications. The course ran from 24-27 November and culminated [...]
NEWS In the privately prosecuted case of AB, CD, EF and GH v XY, ‘XY’ was the director and sole shareholder of a number of corporates which were alleged to have mis-sold investment bonds to high-net worth individuals, sophisticated investors and specialist investment professions. [...]