NEWS Foundry Chambers warmly congratulates member Darren Almeida who is the Bar Golf Champion of 2024 Played at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club with 60 entrants, Darren put in four fabulous rounds to top the leaderboard. An amazing achievement + Back to News [...]
NEWS Following their convictions on 28 March 2024 for the murder of Omar Khan and wounding with intent of Cheyenne Barnes, Rayis Nibeel (16 at the time, now 17) and Umer Choudhury (17 at the time, now 18) have been sentenced by Mrs Justice [...]
NEWS Emily Lauchlan's client was acquitted on 16th May 2024 of all counts; two allegations of Rape, one of Sexual Assault and one of Assault by Penetration dating back to 2021 when he was studying at Cardiff University. The two trials took place at Cardiff Crown Court [...]
NEWS Liam Gregory, leading Toby Pleming, prosecuted Amar Afsar, Mohammad Tariq, Adil Hussain, Nadeem Hussain, and Fahad Ali in a large-scale and complex drugs conspiracy at Reading Crown Court. The defendants conspired to supply multiple kilos of heroin and crack cocaine over a period of [...]
NEWS Rose Slowe prosecuted a highly unusual case of child cruelty arising from a sustained episode of dangerous driving During the afternoon of Wednesday 29 December 2021, multiple road users witnessed a Mercedes SUV driving dangerously on the M40 motorway between Oxford and London; [...]
NEWS Emily Lauchlan acted for a defendant accused of two counts of sexually assaulting his biological son at St Albans Crown Court. The Crown relied on Expert DNA evidence to show areas of saliva that were found on the complainant's brand new pyjama shorts [...]
NEWS Matthew Ralston represented a young man accused of a host of offences, including assault by penetration and strangulation. The prosecution alleged that the Defendant had violently assaulted the complainant – the mother of his children – including by strangling her, knocking her to [...]
NEWS Natalie McNamee prosecuted Kaiqiang Wong (aka Ka Chun Wong) at Woolwich Crown Court for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new partner. The defendant carried out what the prosecution alleged was a revenge attack against the two complainants, after he discovered that [...]
NEWS Benjamin Waidhofer, instructed by James Mullion at Janes Solicitors, was instructed to defend both a corporate and its director in respect of a prosecution which followed a lengthy investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Following a 3-year investigation dating in [...]
NEWS Patrick Dennis and Jessica Tate prosecuted two youth defendants for the murder of Omar Khan and the wounding with intent of Cheyenne Barnes. The defendants were drug dealing in Luton working as a team. The victims were drug users who had arranged to meet [...]